During the leadership experience for the development of a delirium protocol involvment of a interdisiplinary team was very important. Collaboartion and working with the interdisiciplinary team was essential in the creation of a delirium protocol for the VA Medical Center and enabled a Successful completion of the leadership task. Weekly meeting would take place and a Delirium task force was assesmbled with the numerous disciplines within the hospital. Ocuupational and physical therapists where two fields that provided substasial feed back for the delirium protocol. A pyhisican was also present during the meetings and was able to better explain the phenomea of delirium and provide the group with literature on delirium and prevention techniques. The Physican also planne on delivering a lecture on delirum to the new residents that will be starting soon. Some of the areas that would be covered will be prevention techniques, pharacological interventions and also contraindiciations. The ability to be an effective leader requires the input from numerous individuals. The propesed delirium protocol was successful because there was a substanisal amount of buy-in from the other members of the delirium task force.