Evidence-based nursing interventions address insomnia
and encompass educating patients, facilitating behavioral
changes, altering the environment to make it more conducive
to sleep, and planning care that both relaxes the
sleeper and preserves normal circadian rhythms. Patient
education is among the first-line interventions nurses can
use in helping patients understand the nature of a sleep disturbance.
These include teaching patients how to recognize
age-related changes in sleep and how to keep a sleep diary
to provide additional information about factors affecting
sleep and therapeutic response to treatment strategies