Introduction: Sleep is important for maintaining mental and physical health. During hospitalization, patients often experience poorer sleep and a constant feeling of tiredness. There is also often a low mood and a lot of daytime rest, which only adds to the individual's experience of hospitalization. Aim: The aim of this thesis is to present the disturbed sleep pattern of patients during their treatment in hospital wards and to identify the most common disturbing factors affecting sleep quality. The aim is also to present possible nursing interventions that nurses could use to help improve sleep quality during hospitalization. Purpose: The aim of this thesis is to present the disturbed sleep pattern of patients during their treatment in hospital wards and to identify the most common disturbing factors affecting sleep quality. It also aims to present possible nursing interventions that nurses could use to help improve sleep quality during hospitalization. Methods: The literature was searched in Slovene and English in the databases CINAHL, Medline/PubMed and the Cooperative Online Bibliographic System COBISS.SI. Literature from reference lists was also used in the search. The critical period of the literature search was from January 2022 to May 2022. 7 scientific articles that met the inclusion criteria were used for the analysis of the results. Results: The literature review found that a good two-thirds of patients have sleep disorders during hospitalization. There are a high prevalence of confounding factors affecting sleep quality on inpatient wards. The most common are: pain, ambient noise (from staff, other patients or machines) and constant exposure to light. To improve sleep quality, it is therefore important to assess and relieve pain in a timely manner and to reduce exposure to constant light through the use of eye masks. The use of earplugs also helps to maintain sleep, as there are fewer awakenings due to environmental noise. Discussion and conclusion: During hospitalization, patients have a poorer quality of sleep, which is greatly influenced by various disturbing factors originating from the hospital environment. Given that sleep deprivation has an impact on the overall recovery process and the length of hospital stay, it is important that nurses are aware of the potential for nursing interventions aimed at preventing sleep disturbances. In this way, they can contribute to a large extent to reducing sleep disturbing factors and contribute to improving the quality of sleep of patients in a non-pharmacological way.
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