Hospitals Try to Let Critical Patients Sleep

But what this article does is serve as a nice reminder that sleep is so vitaly important to healing that the medical field needs to find ways to compel and promote this, even in places where sleep is hard to come by (ICU). Kudos to these foward-thinking facilites for being proactive & putting themselves in the patient's shoes. At the facility where I have clinicals there is the concept of "Team" approach. While this doesn't sound new, what it requests of it's employees is that we coordinate our patient contact with our fellow team members (CNA, RT, RN, etc.) so that we are not constantly filtering into the room, but approaching them in group and interupting them less. It may sound overwhelming, but done tactfully, this is less agravating to the patient.

Do people actually sleep in hospitals?

This seems to me, to be fairly straightforward common sense.