Each item reflected a nursing or physician competency that would be expected when assessing a patient experiencing SWD or delirium in the inpatient setting. Using a 5-point Likert type scale (1= law and 5 = high), participants ranked the importance of each item of the survey as an essential component of clinical competency and essential concepts/knowledge, respectively, when managing patients with SWD or delirium. Participants also were allotted space after each of the five sections to edit or add additional competencies or concepts. Demographic questions followed the survey questions (Table 3). Each survey was estimated to take 15 minutes to complete. Study participants needed to understand the evidence-based tools that have been standardized for making the bedside SWD or delirium diagnosis: Clinical Instrument Withdrawal Assessment (CIWA; Barnes, Kite, & Kumar, 2010) and Confusion Assessment Method (CAM; Waszynski, 2012).