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Delirium Quiz

Anyone who has been exposed to religion knows the technique of reinforcing knowledge through annual repetition. Is it December? It’s time to tell the story of a birth in a stable. Easter coming up? Revisit the crucifixion story. 


The secular version of this idea is articulated in Atheism 2.0, and you have probably noticed that many health-related issues have a designated day/week/month to annually reinforce information.


So it is with World Delirium Awareness Day. Every March there is an annual refresh of information and education regarding delrium.


Anyone who has been exposed to religion knows that sermons can be boring and repetitive. 


Anyone who has seen RocKwiz or Hard Quiz knows that quizzes can be fun.


So, with that in mind, below is a downloadable, shareable, printable and free delirium quiz that I’ll be using this year. 


Feel free to use/adapt it yourself, if you want. 

Delirium Quiz March 2023



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End Notes

I didn’t really want to put this page on the front page of my web site. I had intended to drop it down to the less-intrusive, more-subtle blog post section. However, the GoDaddy platform isn’t flexible enough to embed a PDF in a blog post, so here we are. 🙄


I’m a specialist mental health nurse in a general hospital. Delirium isn’t part of my core business - it’s a symptom of a medical condition, not a psychiatric problem - but I’ve become pretty skilled at picking delirium when I see it. Put that down to pattern recognition. 


A few years ago the hospital where I work appointed a very capable, skilled and user-friendly specialist dementia and delirium nurse (Hi Michelle 🙂). Its been a terrific improvement to patient care and my workload to have Michelle as a resource. Nevertheless, providing delirium care is an all-of-hospital concern. 


That’s why I’m still happy to chip-in with World Delirium Awareness Day activities. Keep an eye out for the #WDAD and #WDAD2023 hashtags, and - for fun - have a squiz at this AI-generated biblical-style advice.


This work (ie: Delirium Quiz) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License


Paul McNamara, 1 March 2023

Further Reading

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. (2021), Delirium Clinical Care Standard. Sydney: ACSQHC www.safetyandquality.gov.au


Cody, S et al (2021), Improving the quality of delirium practices in a large Australian tertiary hospital: an evidence implementation initiative. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 38(2). www.ajan.com.au/index.php/AJAN/article/view/330 


Weir, E. & O'Brien, A.J. (2019), Don't go there – It's not a nice place: Older adults’ experiences of delirium. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(2). doi.org/10.1111/inm.12563 

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