Healthy sleep and nursing

Sleep Disorders and Sleep Promotion in Nursing Practice

Aging and Sleep : Challenge to Nursing Practices

The aging is normal life process, everybody one day will pass for this step, but what anybody know is that it leads to changes in the quantity and quality of sleep. This process affects more than half of adults, over 65 years old in the United States of America. These changes affect the sleep pattern, the psychological function, immune system, performance, behavioral response, humor and ability...

Healthy Sleep in Children.

www.thoracic.org C LI P A N D C O P Y How much sleep is enough? The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) has set guidelines that define the amount of sleep needed by children to promote optimal health. Regularly getting this number of hours of sleep can help your child avoid health risks associated with sleep deprivation. This is a general guideline that applies to most children but some p...

Sleep in healthy black and white adolescents.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Inadequate sleep among adolescents has negative consequences for self-regulation, emotional well-being, and risk behaviors. Using multiple assessment methods, we evaluated the adequacy of sleep among healthy adolescents from a lower socioeconomic community and expected differences by race. METHODS A total of 250 healthy high school students enrolled in public school ...

Sleep in the Military: Promoting Healthy Sleep Among U.S. Servicemembers.

Sleep disturbances are a common reaction to stress and are linked to a host of physical and mental health problems. Given the unprecedented demands placed on U.S. military forces since 2001, there has been growing concern about the prevalence and consequences of sleep problems for servicemembers. Sleep problems often follow a chronic course, persisting long after servicemembers return home from...