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A clinical project to reduce confusion in hospitalized, older adults
1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Medsurg Nursing : Official Journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
An innovative program to reduce confusion in elderly hospitalized patients was implemented and evaluated for use by staff nurses as part of their usual care activities. Four categories of environmental optimization interventions (EOI) were developed. Attention to factors in the hospital environment that fostered or inhibited implementation of the interventions by the EOI nurses made the program beneficial to patients and nurses.