Intensive Care Unit Sleep Promotion Bundle: Impact on Sleep Quality, Delirium, and Other Patient Outcomes

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Critical care nurses can play a vital role in promoting high-quality sleep among patients in the ICU, thereby influencing patient outcomes. An evidence-based non-pharmacological sleep promotion bundle is a low-cost, multifaceted intervention for critically ill patients that can improve patient outcomes and should be considered as a standard of critical care nursing.

Objectives

Identify three key factors impacting critically ill patients' sleep during their hospital stay.
Describe two nursing interventions that can promote sleep quality for patients in the intensive care unit.
Analyze the impact that an evidence-based sleep promotion bundle can have on various patient outcomes.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

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