Sleeping in a Hospital is Just Awful

[@charlietuba]

"Sir, wake up. It's time to take your sleeping pill."

[@mrbobdoodle]

Fax

[@stormbob]

As a patient with a chronic illness, it gives me a sort of sick pleasure when doctors and other HCPs finally get a chance to see the healthcare system from the patient side and they inevitably go "Wait...what the hell are we doing?"

[@kullwarrior]

This is also why HCPs make the worse patients. I work in ER, there really isn't a 'night shift' per say, ear plugs and eye shield are probably your best bet.

[@andreafindlay6759]

As a nurse I would like to say that we often do recognize the effect of lack of sleep and the issues surrounding appropriate sleep hygiene. However I have to abide by the policy of my institution and the doctors orders. If there is an order in the chart that the patient must be assessed every four hours, I cant make the decision to wait 6 or 8. We often do try to coordinate care like vitals and blood draws when possible. Even during the day because we are often busy enough.

[@aaaarrmehearties]

Andrea Findlay same here. nurses see the direct effects of waking someone up. i certainly don’t enjoy waking up a very sick patient who desperately needs to sleep in order to take some obs. i’ve had post op patients who need half hourly flap obs (checking skin grafts with an ultrasound and a probe) and to me thats the worst thing in the world for the poor patient.

[@NikhilAutar]

As an ex cancer patient... can confirm. It sucks. And often, it is completely unnecessary and definitely has more impact than people think. What I'm working on to help improve hospital beds - make them more accessible - and to prevent complications from occurring!

[@bvespertine]

Congratulations on surviving.

[@mygutsaysmaybe1509]

After a childhood in and out of the hospital my whole family knows that if you want sleep in a hospital, become nocturnal- for some reason day nurses are usually better at letting you sleep.... Probably because they don't need to turn on that spotlight over your face

[@maryhornsby9441]

After both of my normal births, trying to sleep and rest after labor was awful. They "ran out of pillows" and would wake me up (on top of me being awoken by the baby) every couple ours for blood pressure. I barely rested. Last summer I went to the ER for dehydration from a stomach flu and that bed was the most uncomfortable thing I've ever tried to sleep on. You would think it would be a priority to make patients comfortable, but that has not been my experience.

[@happyash6048]

I soooo agree. I had this experience with my second daughter but not my first and it was horrible. That hospital woke you every 1.5 hours for vitals. Seriously!?

[@anagama5238]

In fairness to the nurses (hi!), post partum carries a lot of complications, such as infections, making sure the the fundus is contracting, etc.

[@bartwilson2513]

ANA Gama true, but healthcare workers don’t often take into account a mother’s exhaustion immediately and for a day or so post partum. “Baby Friendly” initiatives don’t help. A mother who has just delivered must be allowed to sleep. Babies are dying in hospitals in part due to mothers’ exhaustion. This issue needs to be taken more seriously.

[@ElizabethJones-pv3sj]

I discharged asap after birth for exactly that reason then needed to go back in for jaundice 2 days later. I was supposed to put a newborn naked except for a nappy in a plastic box with a mask over his eyes so he could get the UV light and I'm sure you can guess how happy he was about that idea. I was in a shared room so crying would have woken everyone else the only solution to keep him quiet was breastfeeding every 5-10 minutes. Finally at 3AM the nurse took pity on me and took him out to the nurse's station (I suspect that may have been technically against hospital policy) so I could get a couple of hours sleep then I get told in the morning that he'll probably need a second night and the nurse asks why I burst into tears at the thought of repeating that experience.

[@2JennySue]

I work a a cna at a hospital solely on night shift, I do my best to work with other members or the staff to not actually wake my patients and to try and give them the best environment I can with what I'm given. It's a daily challenge, made worse by the daily task im ask to do. But I do my best midnight vitals get taken at 10 if you tell me you want to go to bed now and I clear it with the nurse. I fallow the morning blood draws to do the morning weights right after. It's a huge balance between monitoring the patient and letting them rest.

[@MK-ls3bu]

We do vitals at 10, 2, and 6 for patients with Q4 vitals ordered (almost everyone). We try really hard to stack care, as well. If I have a 3AM med I'll ask the CNA to get the 2AM vitals while I'l in there, or I'll get them myself. We also follow lab around to try and minimize the early morning wake ups. My old hospital had a policy that after 24h of stable vitals you could drop skip the 2AM vitals.

[@ItsLoriK]

Checking vitals, beeping, the guy next to you hacking, fear of cross contamination, pain, healing slower or less effectively due to poor sleep, etc.

[@UnstableCompounds]

My dad is in the hospital right now, and I can see the effects of lack of sleep + anaesthesia + pain meds on his cognition. He thought a whole day had gone by without us coming to see him when it had really only been a few hours. That said, the nurses and doctors caring for him have been absolutely wonderful, and I do believe he is getting great care. I just think it would be better for everyone if patients could actually rest.

[@carriethomas1792]

We already always cluster care as much as possible. Patients have to be woken up for assessments because their medical condition warrants it and, yes, to avoid liability. Can you imagine the lawsuit if a patient woke up with a stroke and we didn't check on them for 6-8 hours? I've seen it happen. Can you imagine a patient with a brain bleed having a life-threatening neuro change and I didn't check on them for even 2 hours? That too. We're responsible. Also, I can't tell you how many emergency calls come through from the nursing units during the times that routine vitals are checked because they woke the patients up and found an emergent problem. People are in the hospital because they need monitoring and treatments. Yes, that should be individualized. If that is 8 hours or more, I'd argue that they should be discharged. - An ICU night shift RN for 10 years

[@anagama5238]

Thank you for all the work you do. I think in situations where they are in a regular med-surg unit, it should be scaled back if it is possible.

[@Rgsetters]

I was a patient recently after a tib/fib fracture that required IM nailing. Had to wait overnight before surgery. As a fit 29 year old with no other medical history, 4 hourly obs seemed overkill. Post op fair enough to do regular obs, but pre op was bit much.

[@daredaemon8878]

If that's 8 hours or more they probably shouldn't be in the ICU but there's lots of times where I've been hospitalized and I didn't need that level of interaction. The machines they hooked up to and one or two checkups daily, along with a couple daytime treatments that I couldn't receive at home, was all they needed to do. I wasn't in the ICU, of course, but I would've called my insurance if they'd insisted on waking me up during the night because my insurance policy guarantees me a private room and minimal night-time disturbances, I pay extra for that service.

[@Vezerai]

As i understood the video he is not talking about patients who needs to be checked he is talking about those who DONT need to be checked but are checked anyways...

[@bluejedi723]

I think the point of the video as well, there's a time and place to be overly cations with a patient. Take in account risk factors. If you have someone who came in who is a diabetic, heart problems and just had a stroke, of course going a bit over board on vitals and blood draws for example, is justified. I also understand completely that someone can come into the hospital for a routine overnight something or other infusion done 1000 times before with zero problems and then tonight of all nights for some reason their BP suddenly goes from 110/90 to 220/120 (for example) So yea, I do understand the need for the hospital and staff to protect themselves because liability issues. But I do also see the need for balance and trying to balance a patients comfort with liability is often a hard thing to do.

[@AlexiasShado]

GOSH, yes! As a brain cancer patient that has 15 or 16 surgeries (losing count) under my belt by 35 with the promise of several more surgeries down the line, AND is one of those complicated pts for whom everything goes wrong, let's say that I'm well acquainted with my hospital menu (which is excellent, btw). The sleep issue is something I dread because anxiety over the surgery leaves me sleepless the night before, post-anesthesia and seeking escape from the pain leads me to sleep during the day which leaves me awake at night when it's peaceful for the most part. The nurse doesn't like this and tries to give me meds to make me sleepy which start to work exactly when the vampires come in the pre-dawn hours, followed by nurses wanting vitals who are then concerned my bp is low which it always is normally but following sleep meds and when I'm exhausted, it won't be any better. The entire hospital staff likes to come at the buttcrack of dawn or shortly thereafter to poke, prod, jab, bathe, change bedsheets, go for a bloody walk in the halls, ask a thousand questions and be very concerned and scribble things on notepads if I do not have a sunny disposition. I'm also a hard stick so I can get needle jabs in the TEENS. I always, always feel worse leaving than coming in.

[@mrbobdoodle]

Same in hospital rn have to deal with all of that

[@johnmacdonald1094]

One of the problems that I noticed is that if I am on TEAM A, and my roommate is on TEAM B, I get awakened every time I need to be checked on, and every time HE needs to be checked on. The nursing supervisor actually came around asking for assessments, and I basically told them everything you said. The next Time I was in, things were a little better.

[@ric66521]

I was hospitalised in Hong Kong once, in the paediatrics ward. I would say the main reasons were: 1) The bed was terrible. The hospital wrapped the bed with a plastic cover, and the cover was very hard. 2) They never switched off the lights at the corridor. I couldn't sleep at night because the light was very disturbing.

[@Kamirose.]

My dad had a brain aneurysm rupture about 6 years or so ago (he survived). During his hospital stay, he got almost no sleep for the reasons you described for nearly a week and was having intense, vivid hallucinations and paranoia. At the time, they thought those symptoms were from the brain damage due to the aneurysm. Surprise surprise, when he started sleeping they went away...

[@jksteinmeyer]

The thing I find far more baffling is the hospital food. In all my experiences it has been not only bad quality but genuinely unhealthy. (Think white bread, jello, butter, jam, sugary fruit yogurts, barely a piece of real fruit in sight ...). For normally more active people, it's often not even enough calories. And whenever I speak to other people, regardless of the country they're from, they seem to have the same experience. What is up with that? I wouldn't mind if the food in a hospital was cheap grey unappetizing goo. But in a place of healing, it should at least be healthy.

[@mursumakkara]

At least in Finland hospital food (in cafeterias and wards) need to meet strict, governed guidelines. It has to be healthy.

[@ric66521]

At least in Hong Kong we get a fist sized apple or orange in every hospital meal.

[@tracyandrirs8863]

I've had 5 joint replacements and for each one the hospital I was in had menus we could choose our meals from. They had many healthy choices even low carb which I follow. I find they've mostly changed for the better.

[@sarahalewijnse1177]

I'm from the UK. My dad was in hospital over Christmas. When we were in on Christmas day, my partner had a Christmas dinner, the same as the patients got. He'll eat anything, but couldn't finish the Christmas dinner. How they expect you to force awful food down, when you're already feeling bad, is beyond me.

[@peregrination3643]

Actually, maybe they're treating to the lowest denominator, the people with acute GI or immune issues that make most foods difficult to digest? I hadn't thought about it before, but what you named off is very similar (albeit more sugary) to diets for people on chemo or digestive disorders--soft, "light" foods. Fiber and tough to chew foods can be murder on these people. But it's not light the hospital can't have these foods AND some proper food for people that don't have those dietary concerns. (Although let's face it, it's most likely just about being cheap and the benefit of a few is an accident.)

[@lindasek1206]

So much this. I had cellulitis, spent two nights in the hospital - if not nurses, then residents, then doctors with residents, then ortho, then nurses, then cleaning crew, then residents, then ER resident that saw me, then nurses, then doctors....like, great, everyone was nice and all, but jeez, let me sleep for at least one uninterrupted sleep cycle! And the food was plain nightmare, everything overcooked and unseasoned (I chose vegetarian), the only thing I could really eat was breakfast (oatmeal and raisin bran the first day, cream of wheat and cornflakes the next day). When I got home I slept like the dead for 14 hrs, was up for 6 and then finally got back into my regular 7 hr sleep. Hospitals are pure torture.

[@Rawveggie]

Please don't stop making videos. I love the content! (Yes, I'm a Patreon supporter).

[@OldBaldDad]

I've spent many nights in hospitals with my children. The best nurse we ever had did one simple thing that made her far better than all the others. She set an alarm to alert her when each nighttime IV infusion was almost done. Then she could sneak into the room in time to turn off the pump so the loud alarm wouldn't go off. She deserves a medal!

[@kitthornton2336]

I always just chalked it up to sadism - the staff taking out their issues on vulnerable patients. I don't tolerate it. After the first disruption in the middle of the night, the next one draws a firm refusal, and a polite, calm reminder that doing medical procedures when consent has been withdrawn constitutes battery. I will consent at 0730 hours, and not before. I always got along well with hospital staff and doctors during my cancer treatment and recovery, after certain lines were politely, and firmly set. You feel very vulnerable in the hospital, but you should never forget that your objective is to get well. Their objective is to bill your insurance as much as they can while getting as close to the minimum guidelines for care as they dare. It's a business, they're not "caretakers," they're "medical service providers." Forget that at your peril.

[@DaHaiZhu]

ICU doctors described to me a condition called 'ICU Psychosis'. Due to the lack of sleep from almost constant interruptions, patients become delirious, which can often mask other issues.

[@ems7623]

Jeez. That's terrible. How can fixing this not be a bigger priority?

[@ghostfoxsarah]

I was in ICU of a big Seattle hospital after a car accident as a kid, my head had been smashed in which had me in ICU for 3 days and 4 nights and hospitalized for 2 weeks- then a surgery to get two metal plates put in that left me in the hospital for 2 more weeks. In the ICU they had me room mates with an autistic girl who was screaming constantly. I had a massive life threatening head injury. Sharing a room with someone constantly screaming right next to me. Worst headache I've ever had.

[@kaceydutton5305]

I'm an OT student and we have talked about this in class. Sleep is an important occupation and people in hospitals who do get adequate sleep are better able to participate in therapy for obvious reasons. It's not only important for physical health, but can significantly impact mental health as well. Thank you for addressing this important topic, love your videos.

[@ColoringKaria]

It’s also really bad for families! My wife was very sick for a while and I would sleep in the room with her. Not only was she more irritable so was I making it hard for me to perform the support and aid functions I was staying there to do!

[@jonnycarlo]

Occupational Therapist here yes Sleep is really not easy most of my patients complain this atlot and the best thing I can teach them is proper positioning and relaxation techniques.

[@SaraAnneMiller]

I get IVIG infusions for six hours every three weeks. I take a sleep mask and ear plugs, which helps somewhat. I can normally get a two-hour nap with interruptions for vitals every fifteen minutes. It’s not great sleep, but it’s sleep.

[@nadiabinness700]

I can definitely speak to this issue ( this may be a bit TDLR but I promise there is a point). Recently one of my cats bit my hand . It swelled up and I couldn't use it . I went to the emergency room and eventually was admitted to the hospital. I spent two nights there. In addition to the aforementioned frequent sleep interruptions to check my vitals etc, my bed would periodically inflate and deflate ( apparently this was to prevent bed sores) . This was very annoying. On day two a surgeon came in and looked at my hand he said I might have to have surgery. they would decide in the morning. I could not have any food past dinner that night. Morning came and the surgeon looked at my hand , decided I DIDN'T NEED SURGERY and told me I could be discharged . that meant that not only could I go home I could also have breakfast and COFFEE. It got to be 9 and still no breakfast or badly needed coffee. An orderly can to my room and inquired about breakfast . tThe orderly told I could have breakfast because I was scheduled for surgery. So that fiasco was finally cleared up and then a gentleman came to my rooms ( I'm sure he said who he was and what he did but I forgot. ) he suggested I spend another night and get another round of antibiotics , but by this point i was DONE so I went home and luckily my hand healed up just fine . I feel like maybe troublesome hospital experiances like the one I had may lead people to discharge before they should or not seek help at all

[@internetgnom8568]

In addition to being woken up all the time, the mattresses here in Germany (probably in most other countries too but i have no experience there) are covered with a plastic sheet under the regular sheet so that when a patient wets the bed the staff can clean it up easily. I understand it`s necessary but it really affected my sleep because i was hot and sweating all night due to lack of air circulation.

[@sensibleb]

I had my family bring me earplugs. It made all the difference.

[@ems7623]

This is one thing I've always thought needs to be better about hospital care.

[@MrPandaCavalry]

Thank you so much for bringing up this topic!!! I’ve had issue with this working night and having my boss pushing hourly rounding on top of meds, vitals and labs on all patients regardless of diagnosis throwing out common sense and nursing judgement

[@peregrination3643]

I'm a chronically ill person and I have a nursing friend. It's amazing how much we agree on what's wrong with healthcare. Unfortunately, nurses don't have the power to do what they know is right by the patient. In some cases corporate policies and other times doctors have their ideas on what's efficient for them, and patients and nurses are stuck with the unnecessary consequences. This is even at a hospital that is, I think, known as the third best in Colorado? Alternatively, you can't sleep either if you're in triage and waiting to be seen. Hours go by without seeing anyone, yet it's too cold to sleep, no pillow, a "bed" that scarcely be called a bed, and this was actually a Canadian experience for me. I've had one Canadian and one American one, lol. Gotta sample. For similar cases and just needed a strong nausea shot so I can hydrate by myself, at one hospital I was alone almost all night and I thought I was forgotten, and at the other I had the constant interruptions. Either way I left in the wee hours of the morning after arriving in the evening.

[@happyash6048]

I SO loved this video. When I had my second daughter, a normal healthy pregnancy with no delivery complications, the hospital had a policy of waking you up to check vitals every 1.5 hours! It was the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. Between that and the baby, I never got a strech of sleep more than 30 minutes. I seriously think it contributed to my PPD after that baby that I didn't have after the first.

[@rebeccawright5987]

About seven years ago, I was in the hospital for an infection. I was awakened at three in the morning by a nurse touching my wrist, checking my pulse and saying “oh. You are alive.”

[@nateslovebug]

That isn't even taking into account the most hospital sleepers are partnered sleepers. This has a negative impact on not only the patient, but the person who will be most involved with their recovery.

[@raincity5004]

I think one of the worst things that I would say makes it worse is when your dayshift team leaves and your night shift team comes on because dayshift Often is more friendly the Night Shift The night shift staff knew I was up didn’t call the resident when my pain was going up and they wouldn’t even sit with me to try to call me down 17 years old I know but I was clearly asking you to help and guide me and call my nerves down so please do that if you can I understand if the staffing is low to allow this to happen but at least you could be pleasant when you come in

[@aaaarrmehearties]

when nursing in the ICU and i try to do as much “night tasks” (taking bloods, doing ECGs, patient hygiene) all at the same time at the beginning of the night or towards the end of the shift. nevertheless, it feels so cruel. i’ve often seen a trivial oral medication charted close to midnight and had to change it so that the patient gets some sleep.

[@productivediscord5624]

The absolute worst is having to go into a sleeping patient room just to reattach telemetry leads for the fifth time.

[@gamingwithatou4003]

It’s annoying every 15 minutes they wake you up to take ur medication and check ups and parents sleeeping calm 😏

[@BudgetBeautyBabe]

I was just in the hospital last month. I have cystic fibrosis and I got the flu and bronchitis at the same time and was close to being in ICU. I lost my cool on two aids who woke me for a sponge bath. I'm talking yelling and crying while not letting them touch me. My doctor was PISSED!

[@kitthornton2336]

Just be firm. A polite, "sorry but I do not consent to this procedure" should do.

[@HyperSpify]

@@kitthornton2336 LOL! Yeah right, as if that's going to work.

[@samiyarossini]

I've only been hospitalized once: a little over 2 years ago, after I had an unplanned c-section. I know that is -major- surgery, but it also took away from early bonding with my new baby. It also meant that, until I got HOME (and even then, a few days later, I was so off) that i didn't get more than 30-40 minutes of sleep at a time. That's a horrible way to start off, especially as a 1st time parent, with no family in the area to help with her. And when they would come in, I didn't feel like I was really getting help with things I needed (like breast feeding, which I ended up not being able to do). They were nice and all, but it was probably the worst start I could have had.

[@mikehudgins8545]

I dint know this was a thing until my wife and I had our first child 7 months ago and had to stay for 5 nights. My newborn kept waking me up and the disrespectful nurses kept coming in and doing pointless tests on my wife all night. By the end I was so miserably tired. I don't think I have ever been that tired since or before.

[@hannahharris2071]

Why I can’t sleep in a hospital 1. The IV machine has a spaz attack when I move my arm the slightest 2. It takes about the whole night to find a comfy position 3. The nurses have to walk in every half hour due to my illness so I fall asleep they wake me 4. Beeping sounds 5. Getting tangled in in bloody Iv tubes and almost ripping them out 6. Pain And when I finally get to sleep visiting starts and my mum wakes up so 😑

[@ragnkja]

Minimising disruptions might require a little bit more planning, but it requires a lot less staff looking in on patients.

[@elektrikhd]

Last time I was hospitalized (because of my Ulcerative Colitis), while they had actually done one of these things--combining the daily blood draw with morning vitals check, as opposed to waking me around 5 or 6am for blood as during my first stay, then doing vitals at 7 or 8--they were doing renovations somewhere nearby in the building. I was woken up by loud drilling every day at 7am. A curious thing I also noticed, I was on Medicaid at that time, rather than the nice insurance I had under my old job, and I encountered a couple of rude nurses and a crappy "hospitalist" doctor, problems I'd not had during previous stays. A couple of other patients on the ward were also on Medicaid or just uninsured, but came in with an emergency and had to be admitted (as they told me). Beyond that, a little bit of stereotyping based on clothes of visitors there, compared to the wards on other stays makes me wonder if I got put on a ward with lower-rated employees and where I'd be dealing with noise because I was on poor people insurance.

[@bshay513]

I did a pharmacy rotation at a hospital, where I was expected to walk into patient rooms to ask if they had questions about their meds. I got scolded for not wanting to wake sleeping patients... Wish I had this video 3.5 years ago...

[@Brittles_88]

Oh my gosh, this!!!! The complete lack of rest I got while recovering from childbirth is the ONLY reason I’d seriously consider a home birth. The nurses would wake me and the baby. Once only just to ask if I was “okay.” No other reason.

[@bankuei]

After my bout with cancer, for nearly 2 years after, I would wake up on the dot when the morning blood draw would normally happen. Continuous beeping still drives up my anxiety from all the time around the machines.

[@abqmalenurse]

As a nurse, I have tried to work around the patient's sleep schedule as much as possible for decades. However, I no longer work in hospitals. Too much stress. Politics and profit over patient care.

[@Emanresu56]

When my father was in the hospital (he passed away in September) he was next to a room where a woman was screaming and attempting to harm herself, etc. When we were visiting we heard the lady first hand and she attempted to escape her room. Didn't seem like a great place to be.

[@argella1300]

I can imagine these changes would be especially welcome in maternity wards. Let new parents gets some rest dammit!!!!

[@rootsm3]

I just got out of the hospital last week. JESUS CHRIST THE WORST SLEEP IVE HAD IN MY LIFE. The bed, the screaming roommate, the machines going off at all hours. It was making me worse.

[@rea8585]

We spend 1/3 of our life sleeping but somehow we don't pay attention to it, might it be in or out fo the hospital

[@kitthornton2336]

As, unfortunately, a veteran of a few long hospital stays, there are a few things you can do to make things easier on yourself: 1) Ear plugs, a blindfold, and a nice, comfortable dressing gown and comfy slippers. They help. 2) Noise cancelling headphones and a music player. They help preserve your sanity. Audiobooks are a gift from the Holy Powers when you're too gassed to do anything else. 3) If you can, log everything. Keep a journal by the bed. Meds, visits, everything. Just the fact that you're keeping track will put folks on notice. 4) Be polite and calm. Nurses and staff are people, too, and they aren't domestic servants. If you're nice, most of them won't be actively hostile. 5) Listen carefully, ask questions, and be well informed. 6) Remember, while some of the nurses and staff may have the best motivations, the institution itself is a moneymaking proposition. The hospital itself doesn't care what happens to you. If you die, the question will be, "did we perform the minimum standard of care as cheaply as possible without getting sued?" not "how could we do better?"

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

and roommates and their health care disruptions.

[@dolfynmaster85]

Ugh too true. I was in a hospital for an overnight medical observation stay (for nothing critical; I simply needed a fast pass to their movement disorder specialist and could not afford to wait 2 months to see said specialist) and didn't sleep but a few hours that night.

[@xela8384]

I just came home from three days in the hospital. The third night I slept for four hours straight, ending with my morning blood draw. That was the only time in the entire stay that I slept more than an hour. And half the times I got woken were just collateral damage from something they were doing with the other patient in the room.

[@stevensadowski1]

Won't sleep in hospital, don't even want to be near one. I should see a doctor though gone 7 days without sleep and every time I laid down I was dizzy 😵

[@LeenyRose7]

I wish Yale-New Haven had made those changes before I was there! Every.hour.all.night.

[@mindacarpenter2996]

After my C-section they put me on morphine. But to get any I had to manually push the button every 6 minutes. So if I fell asleep if she up 15 minutes later in even worse pain. Fortunately the second day the switched me to IV Ibprofin which worked way better and later for almost 12 hours.

[@colinmartin9797]

Try sleeping in an ambulance. My gurney is basically a church pew covered in duct tape. It also gets really effing cold and my heater has two settings. "Off" and "Somali prison".

[@kurtuskahle5452]

Where can I find the citation for the study showing that better sleep improved patient satisfaction? I think our patient satisfaction team would be interested.

[@itisdevonly]

It's also horrible trying to sleep in a hospital when your baby is the patient and you have to stay in the room with them to take care of them.

[@badseed86]

In Germany it is a common thing to have psychotherapy treatments hospitalised for months. No, I don't mean acute psychiatric patients who might hurt others or themselves. I mean perfectly healthy people who simply want an intensive form of psychotherapy.

[@monical9972]

Yes! To all of this!!

[@oliverwilson11]

Wow doctors finally listened to what nurses & patients have been telling them for ages

[@KAST96]

I would attack my nurse if she woke me up when I was sick

[@victorialynnstruble]

I've cussed Hospital staff out because of this before. I'm not in ICU it's 3 in the goddamn morning. Get the f*** out of my room and don't wake me up again until breakfast

[@NunayoBisnez]

I was awakened literally every hour all night long so nurses could draw my blood and take my vital signs. I think it's about the fact so that hospitals can make money the more tests and procedures they give you.

[@eugenetswong]

It's funny that you say this. I was in a British Columbian emergency unit just this Friday, just after midnight, and a cleaning lady came into my room to clean, as if I wasn't even there. I sure could have used some sleep, but I kept quiet, because I didn't want to bother her. Maybe I should speak up next time? :(

[@Daedhart]

My beef isnt with the vitals...its the shitty beds.

[@bigben1986]

I sleep the best in the hospital

[@princenguyen1298]

Ironic since I think we heal better when we get good sleep

[@Livelax93]

"Check vitals every six hours instead of four" I mean, who is to decide exactly how many hours between a check and an other? That's bullshit, doc. Sleeping in an hospital is a problem, yes, sometimes it is simple to solve (just move silently and lower the tone of your voice, that would make a difference), sometimes it simply isn't.

[@SaucerJess]

💙

[@daltongrowley5280]

is that opening new? or am i crazy?

[@angelofuchs1249]

Works differently in Germany. I was not once woken up in Hospital except when needed (patient in next bed had an emergency). Lights are dimmed at night and all checks are done during the day.

[@justabill5780]

I was relieved, when I had total hip replacement 5 weeks ago, that it would be outpatient surgery. I spent a total of 12 hours in the hospital (5:30am-5:30pm). Because of that, I never missed a night of sleep and my recovery has been fairly easy. When I had hip surgery 11 years ago, I had to spend one night in the hospital and I didn't sleep for more than 1 minutes at a time all night. It was terrible.

[@prussianhill]

Leukemia survivor here. If anyone happens across the video and is having a hard time sleeping in a hospital... two things that are worth looking into. One is a box of ear plugs. It may not stop techs or nurses from waking you up at night, but at least it'll cut down on the noise levels. And if you share a room, getting an eyeshade (like they use for travelling) is worth looking into too.

[@NoWhereMan95]

I guess I was lucky then, because when I was in hospital, I slept like a baby.

[@gword256]

Have a baby? Mom and dad get to wake up every hour for 48 hours.

[@ems7623]

Good reason to not reproduce

[@187Chevy]

Bruh n I appreciate the nurses but they talk way too damn much...the care I’m thankful but damn u literally get no rest/peace during your stay

[@adamwishneusky]

omg this. All I-can’t-remember-how-many times I’ve been hospitalized 😩

[@Quagthistle]

Yeah, not to be the pessimist here, but, in my rather extensive experience with hospitals, I can say that the problem is that patients aren't there to recover. They are there because they have medical issues that can be exploited by hospitals to make money. The reason patients are actively harmed by nurses' scheduals is because the more harm done the more chargable "proceedures" or "medications" can be billed. You are in a hospital to be one of the cash cows of the hospital, not to be made healthier. They have no vested interest in your recovery (though they do sometimes try... when permitted by pedantic hospital policies). For the most part, though, they are incentivised to draw things out, run as many unneccessary tests as possible, and do as much harm as possible to ensure you return as quickly as possible. Again, call me a pessimist on this, but that's been my experience with doctors and in hospitals across six US states (Texas, Florida, Ohio, Kansas, Colorado, and Minnesoda).

[@babylonfive]

You, sir, are a pessimist. Yet the profit motive is definitely there at some hospitals.

[@kitthornton2336]

@@babylonfive Count me as another pessimist. Being a cancer patient, and a lawyer I can tell you that much unnecessary stuff is done for billing purposes. As for the "defensive medicine" argument, that's massively overblown. In twenty-three years as an attorney, I've not yet seen a medmal case that originated with allowing the patient to get at least six hours sleep outside of ICU.

[@ems7623]

Yeah sure. Hospitals just exploit people. They never do anyone any good. Suuuuuuure

[@hayleya2216]

But also, hospital beds are hella uncomfortable.

[@BrunoHenrique-bg8kj]

References? It would help to chance my local service