Restorative Sleep: How to Make a Night-and-Day Difference
Presented by Sarah Brown
Non-Financial: Sarah Brown has no competing non-financial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
This course will review how and why people sleep. It will also discuss how facility residents or patients can get a better night of sleep, which can ultimately lead to an improved quality of life. Fragmented or interrupted sleep does not allow the body to go through all of the sleep phases needed for health and wellness.
Meet your instructor
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown has more than 16 years of experience in healthcare, providing direct patient care, leadership, education, and consultation in a variety of healthcare roles in long-term care, transitional care, clinic settings, large health systems, and partnerships. Sarah is the executive director of Empira, a collaborative of…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Course Overview
This chapter will provide an overview for the content of this course. It will review why restorative, uninterrupted sleep is so vital for patients or residents within your organization. It will also provide learning objectives for the course.
2. Why Do We Sleep? Why Do We Wake?
This chapter will go over why light and activity play a key role within the sleep cycle. It will review the different types of light exposure and energy expenditures that should occur in the daytime versus the nighttime.
3. Top 10 Sleep Disturbances
This chapter will review the top 10 disturbances that can interfere with the sleep cycle, and provide strategies for addressing each one.
4. Course Summary and Next Steps
This chapter will provide an overview of why sleep is so vital to people’s well-being. It will also go over next steps on how to further improve your patients’ or residents’ sleep cycles.
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