Hospital Noise Spoiling Patient's Sleep

medicalnewstoday ^ | 13 Jun 2012 | Rupert Shepherd

[JoeProBono]

[Average Al]

You don’t go to a hospital to get any sleep. You are there to get treatments or monitoring that you normally can’t get as an out patient.

[Venturer]

You are right. You don’;t get any rest in the hospital, and it isn’t the noise so much as the Nurse coming to check BP, change IV bottles, and ding her’his other duties.

Can’t be helped.

[JoeProBono]

[driftdiver]

I dunno, I didn’t mind so much the one and only time I was in the hospital when the very cute nurse came in to check on me.

Now when shift change occurred and broomhilda came on duty I was quite upset that I couldnt sleep.

[Average Al]

Yep. You are a slab of meat getting treatments. (It is no hotel.) ;-)

[yldstrk]

being in a hospital is a horrible ordeal, all the racket, light, taking vitals in the middle of the night, not to mention the food

[R. Scott]

I don’t have much experience with hospitals, I spent a couple weeks in the ICU at the Annapolis Naval Academy hospital and much later a couple weeks in Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Both were quiet at night.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

When my late mother was hospitalized at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, the noise in the hallway was unbelievable.
Each room had a locked chart box on the wall by the entry door, opened by typing in a code number.
When the box door wouldn't open quickly, the nurses would beat on the metal doors. This went on 24 hours a day.

[yldstrk]

I was just saying to my mom that there is a need for something in between the hospital and going home, where you can actually get some peace and quiet.

[R. Scott]

Ah! Hospital food!
When I was in the Annapolis hospital my meals (due to my injury) mostly consisted of an IV, Jell-O, broth and decaf coffee. The Navy Commander across from me often had steak dinners. He obviously enjoyed them and would smile and ask me how I enjoyed my green Jell-O.
When I was in the Portsmouth hospital I had regular – but bland – food. No salt and decaf coffee.

[goseminoles]

When I was in the hospital for four back surgeries, I was so ripped, I didn’t know what day it was. What really pissed me off was that the remote changed channels one way. If you miss your channel you have to go through 150 channels to get back there. Combine that with morphine and you have an unhappy camper.

[JoeProBono]

[goseminoles]

Like a halfway house for the ill??

[yldstrk]

yeah, you know maybe you could even voluntarily check in to get taken care of and heal up

[JoeProBono]

[Average Al]

You had a TV that worked? ;-)

[BuffaloJack]

I always thought that the old joke about the hospital staff waking you up to give you sleeping pills was just that, a joke.
I found out different when I was in the hospital for a heart problem.
They actually woke me up to give me sleeping pills.

[JoeProBono]

[Mister Da]

The night after my appendix was removed, the nurse woke me up to give me a pill to help me sleep. Duh!