Helping inpatients get a good night’s sleep
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Helping inpatients get a good night’s sleep

Allie Anderson Health journalist

Measures that minimise disturbance and improve rest on wards at night, but don’t mean extra workload

Lack of sleep can lower pain tolerance, delay healing, reduce immunity and cause confusion and delirium.

Nursing Standard. 39, 7, 67-68. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.7.67.s17

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