Dimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN
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Dimens Crit Care Nurs · Nov 2018
Randomized Controlled TrialImpact of a Nurse Intervention to Improve Sleep Quality in Intensive Care Units: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Patients of adult intensive care units (ICUs) often suffer from a lack of sleep. Reducing anxiety by promoting adaptation to the ICU prior to admission may be an appropriate way to increase sleep quality. ⋯ A nurse intervention prior to ICU admission did not increase patients' sleep quality. In addition, the intervention could have incremented anxiety over the patients who used to sleep poorly at their homes.