Author Question: How can the nursing staff encourage sleep in long-term care facility residents? (Select all that ... (Read 493 times)

lak · **on:** Jul 11, 2018

How can the nursing staff encourage sleep in long-term care facility residents? (Select all that apply.)

a. Using the minimum light necessary when making rounds
b. Making necessary sleep interruptions at the same time every night
c. Keeping conversational noise at the nursing station to a minimum
d. Answering call lights promptly
e. Providing heavy blankets for warmth

Question 2

The wife of a patient tells the home health nurse that she suspects her husband has sleep apnea because he __________. (Select all that apply.)

a. snores loudly
b. interrupts snoring with several seconds of silence
c. complains of daytime drowsiness
d. frequently is incontinent of urine
e. has episodes of myoclonus

frejo · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 11, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A, B, C, D
Heavy blankets may initially feel warm to the resident but eventually make the resident uncomfortable and unable to sleep. All other options listed will help diminish sleep interruptions.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A, B, C
Incontinence and myoclonus are not associated with sleep apnea.