Student group’s challenge

“The father of one of the students had ended up in the hospital and had experienced delirium. A delirium is a dysregulation of your thinking and the brain caused by a serious illness. […] The student had dived into the problem and learned that delirium occurs with serious illness and procedures. […] And then the student thought, could we come up with something to prevent that? For example, could we measure certain values, put them in an app, and have the app calculate the likelihood of getting a delirium. […] The students spent quite some time on that idea, they wanted to make that idea into a prototype. However, something that impaired their process was that the students immediately worked on the five or ten most important parameters, and not so much on what a delirium is” [T6 delirium].

Teaching activities

“I talked with the students whether they felt that they knew enough about the whole clinical picture of delirium. […] And how would it be to talk to a geriatric nurse, for example, or people who work in the recovery room. […] I tried to give the students some knowledge” [T6 delirium].