Downloading the app will help you realize what behaviors are causing you to lose sleep. For objective 2, by the end 2018, undergraduate participants that attend the educational session will increase their GPA by ½ a point. In the session, students will receive educational information that will improve their sleep habits. For example, they will watch instructive videos relating to sleep, sleep disorders, and how it influences their academic performance and well-being. Further, the month to month sessions will guide people to identify their behavior problems and offer the most effective method to diminish the problems.…
The overall goal for this sleep aid is to allow the user to get a better night’s rest without having to wake up in the middle of the night. Since…
Hello Teersa, Sleeping is a key to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. An interview assessment was conducted on JT, a 34 year old, was complaining about lacking sleep, feeling sleepy, and missing continuous sleep. Sleep quality and quantity is an important function in the work environment that supports proper communication (Barnes, Lucianetti, Bhave, & Christian, 2015). For JT, the reported sleep issues needs further exploration. It is necessary that FNPs screen for possible sleep disturbances.…
Over the last decade or so, there has been an increasing awareness of the health and economic consequences caused by the sleep deprivation and poor sleep…
In the article, “It’s Time to Pay Attention to Sleep, the New Health Frontier,” written by Alexandra Sifferlin, she discusses the importance of sleep and how it is essential in living a healthy life. Sifferlin talked about Lynn Mitchell, a 68-year old woman who was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in 2011. She was only getting an hour of sleep a night. The cancer affected her lifestyle as stated in the article, the brain cancer was not only affecting her mentally it was affecting her physically as well. Mitchell was often dizzy and would lose her balance at times.…
Upon bringing home a newborn child, parents are faced with many questions and decisions to make about how to care for their child. One for the many debates that parents face, is sleeping arrangements for their child and how to manage them waking up at night. According to Loutzenhiser, 2014 “night- waking is considered to be the most common sleep problem for infants” p. 282. When the child is young, it is extremely likely that the parents will respond immediately, since the child waking at this age probably means that the child needs to be changed or fed, which is something that should be taken care of immediately. As they age, there are many different methods a parent can use in reaction to the child’s nighttime awakenings.…
Psychology Assessment 1a) The Cognitive Approach The Cognitive Approach to Sleep and Dreams can be defined simply by the computer analogy. The key purpose of sleep is to store, input and output information collected throughout the day and process that information into some kind of order, this could explain why our dream content is mostly based on issues faced during the day. While we are asleep our mind processes information and then consolidates important memories and also discards useless information. Sleep has been proven to be directly linked with memory.…
The biological approach relates to sleep as it’s theories involve bodily processes and functions. The biological approach explores events that occur within the body. Sleep is important as our bodies need sleep to function as certain functions are restored within the body. The biological approach states that sleep occurs in a circadian rhythm known as the sleep-wake cycle occurs over a 24-hour period. The hypothalamus is located in the brain and contains the superchiasmatic nucleus (SCN) which controls the circadian rhythm.…
PLANNING FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Topic Chosen: The area I have chosen for improving within my practice is prescribing of hypnotics in the management of insomnia. I feel that patients, especially elderly people, who are on sleeping tablets/ hypnotics/ schedule-8 drugs for a long period of time, put pressure on general practitioners for initiation or continuation of these drugs of dependency for treating insomnia and therefore I want to reduce this rate besides improving management of this condition as a whole as it is a very common presentation Insomnia is defined as “A disturbance of normal sleep patterns commonly characterised by difficulty in initiating sleep (sleep onset latency) and / or difficulty in maintaining sleep (sleep maintenance)".(1)…
Power Naps: A Wake up Call to Improved Efficiency The secret to becoming more productive is not managing your time but your energy. We live in a society where long productive hours seem necessary to meet a deadline, cram for finals or juggle everyday responsibilities. But let 's face it folks...…
Recently I have read the article by Jonah Lehrer “Blame it on the brain”. It helped me to understand a lot of things that I was doing in a wrong way. It describes a few experiments which show how our brain works and relates to the behaviour I want to change this semester. I have some problems with insomnia. I can’t manage my time in the right way that directly…
As stated by the National Alliance of Mental Illness (2016), in a given year,1 in 5 adults in the U.S will experience some type of mental illness. A vast majority that suffer from mental or psychiatric disorders in the United States do not get the treatment and attention they need often because of the excessive cost of therapy and prescription drugs (Anxiety and Depression Association of America, n.d.). The long term effects of a mental or psychiatric disorder that goes untreated, can be detrimental to a person 's overall well-being. With the prevalence of mental disorders being so high, many researchers have turned to a treatment that would be more cost and time effective for the patient. This treatment was approved by the Food and Drug Administration(F.D.A.) and is known as Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (Food and Drug…
Nursing Students experience a significant amount of stress and anxiety during their time in nursing school. In the article Biofeedback Intervention for Stress and Anxiety Among Nursing Students: A Randomized Control Trial, the researchers discuss the use of biofeedback measuring heart rate variability to control the amount of stress and anxiety second year nursing students experience during their clinical. The researchers decided use biofeedback heart rate variability (HRV), since there have been no previous studies on the use of biofeedback devices measuring nursing students stress and anxiety (Ratanasiripong, 2012). In the review of the literature focuses on the previous research on the effects of stress and anxiety in nursing students.…
When people sleep, their body rests and restores its energy levels. A good night sleep means to help you cope with stress, solve problems, or recover from illness. “Sleep is prompted by natural cycles of activity in the brain and consists of two basic states: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-rapid eye movement sleep, which consists of Stages 1 through 4. During sleep, the body cycles between non-REM and REM sleep. Typically, people begin the sleep cycle with a period of non-REM sleep followed by a very short period of REM sleep.”…
This benefit may encourage people to nap more, because if naps can help with so many things, why would you not nap? We can inference form this also that not getting enough sleep could help cause heart disease as getting extra sleep from naps prevents heart disease. Concluding Sentence: Naps can help with sleep loss but they have their drawbacks. They can’t provide a full replacement for sleeping and can even make you even sleepier. But if you nap correctly, then you can get the boost you need for the day and help lessen your sleep loss.…