Abstract
The interest in sleep within the inpatient population and its role in recovery is an emerging area of clinical research, in particular the relationship between delirium and sleep disturbance, (Van Rompaey et al. 2012; Slatore et al. 2012) its contribution to length of hospital stay, and management of circadian rhythm disturbances (Madrid-Navarro et al. 2015). Education regarding sleep and the processes that occur during the stage are not a primary focus of nursing education and as a result nurses knowledge in this area may be lacking (Radtke et al. 2014; Gellerstedt et al. 2015).\n Providing a nocturnal environment in which patients can sleep needs to integrate an awareness of exposure to sleep disturbing noise, noise reverberation, and presence of artificial light, temperature and rationalisation of interventions that disturbed sleep.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 26-29 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Australian nursing & midwifery journal |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2016 |