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How do you sleep faster in a hospital?

15 Tips For Better Sleep Bring your own pillow and blanket. ... Ask for medication to help you go to sleep. ... Ask for medication that will help you stay asleep. ... Stay awake during the day and only sleep at night. ... Close the door to your room. ... Use earplugs. ... Use a sleeping mask. More items... •

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Getting rest is the goal of most patients when they are in the hospital. It seems logical that when you are sick or injured that sleep is especially important—and it is. It is just very hard to obtain during a hospital stay.

Why Sleep Is Difficult in a Hospital

The very nature of a hospital can make sleep especially challenging. You are in a bed that isn’t your own trying to sleep with a pillow that isn’t your own. You can certainly bring your own pillow and blanket if you like, but the fact remains that you are sleeping on a bed that isn’t the one you are used to at home. Stomach sleepers may also have increased difficulty sleeping, as most hospital beds are designed for the patient to sleep on their backs. Hospitals are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means that things are going on all day and all night long, hospitals are a very busy place. So when you try to take a nap during the day you will likely hear voices in the hallway, staff cleaning your room or even another patient’s television at high volume because they didn’t bring their hearing aids. Hospitals are full of noise. There are the beeps and chirps of IV pumps, monitors, and other devices. There are beds rolling down the hallways and elevators chiming. Then there is the care that you receive, which is necessary but will also interrupt your sleep. Labs are often drawn in the middle of the night, which means you will be waking up at 3 or 4 am to have blood drawn. Vital signs are taken as often as every fifteen minutes if a patient is unstable or is having a problem, hourly vital signs are standard in the intensive care units. If the patient is stable, they may be lucky enough to have vital signs taken every 4 to 8 hours, but can still cause interruptions in sleep. Medications can also cause sleeplessness. Steroids, which are given to many hospitalized patients, can cause insomnia and excitability, even when exhausted. The equipment used by the hospital, such as IVs and heart monitoring, can also contribute to difficulty sleeping. Moving and turning over is far more challenging when tethered to an IV pump or tangled in wires.

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