Competency Exercises

The only time I stayed in the hospital over night was for the birth of my son. The medical staff in the postpartum unit were very respectful in regards to allowing me to sleep. I also had a family member stay with me overnight and they were respectful of their sleep as well.
To create a healing and restful environment for our patient can be clustering patient care. This can be done by entering the patient’s room maybe once or twice a shift and doing everything that needs to be done for that patient all at one time. This can allow less interruptions and allow the patient and their family members rest. Another way to accomplish this is to turn off or dim the lighting in the hallways and use a soft tone of voice when speaking in the hallways.
I think it is also important that we allow the child to an adequate amount of sleep. This can also be done by clustering care and facilitating a quiet, dim lighting environment around patient’s rooms, and the hallways.
I believed this exercise focused on QSEN’s patient-centered care competency, because it focused on a need of the patient, and that is rest. This exercise show me how to facilitate patient’s rest during their stay in the hospital. This is their home until they are discharged so we need to be respectful when we do patient care at