A sufficient amount of high quality sleep is assumed to be essential for optimum physical and

psychological functioning and also there is an emerging understanding of the restorative role of sleep in
health and disease. In fact, lack of sleep has been listed as a potential source of harm to a person’s
health and wellbeing (Pilkington, 2013). The stress and physical effects of acute illness combined with
the hospital environment make it difficult for hospitalized patients to receive sufficient amounts of
quality sleep. The noise, lights, medications, pain, anxiety, and frequent patient care activities hampers
with patients’ ability to fall asleep and stay asleep. For these reasons, sleep deprivation is common in
hospitalized patients. Patients sleep lighter and for a decreased amount of time while in the hospital.
Less than 50 percent of sleep occurs during the normal nighttime hours (Bernhofer, Daly, Burant, &
Hornick, 2013). Thus, sleep deprivation is a common problem in hospitalized patients. Since nursing staff
has a major amount of direct interaction and establishing rapport with patients, they are in the perfect
position to assess for and prevent sleep deprivation. Interventions are often tailored to counteract the
conditions that cause sleep disruptions. Nurses are aware of and interested in sleep-promoting
interventions.

Since nursing staff has a major amount of direct interaction and establishing rapport with
patients, they are in the perfect position to assess for and prevent sleep deprivation. It is the duty of the
assigned nurse to provide comfort and address the patient’s concern regarding the dilemma that he or
she is currently facing or experiencing. Furthermore, the nurse must establish a nursing care plan that is
tailored to lessen the conditions that cause his/her sleep disruptions. With the archive nursing care plan
that was formulated, they were able to create a nursing care plan that provide direction for
individualized care of the patient and was able to customize an intervention for the sleep deprived
patient. However, the archived nursing care plan needs further enhancement to make it more
responsive on the needs of the client.

Moreover, Sleep deprivation has adverse effects on both the physical and psychological health of the
patient. Adverse effects include, but are not limited to, decreased immune function, reduced inspiratory
muscle strength, prolonged length of stay, delirium, and increased levels of fatigue, anxiety, and stress.
Since nursing staff has a major amount of direct interaction and establishing rapport with patients, they
are in the perfect position to assess for and prevent sleep deprivation. Interventions are often tailored
to counteract the conditions that cause sleep disruptions. Nurses are aware of and interested in sleep-
promoting interventions.

I agree with The archived nursing care plan that was formulated however

As a nurse, we are vital in providing the proper nursing intervention