“Literature review: Sleep deprivation in hospitalized patients. Contents Introduction 3 Search strategies 4 Benefits of sleep 5 Effects of sleep deprivation 7 Factors affecting sleep deprivation 11 Sleep assessment 15 Helping patients sleep 18 Findings of literature review 21 Recommendations from literature 21 Conclusion 22 Reference List 24”

Sleep is a necessary activity for sustaining life. Multitudes of researches knowledgeable in sleep theories have investigated the consequence of lacking adequate sleep, such as poorer health and impaired brain agility (Kleitman, 1963; Sabanayagam and Shankar, 2010).  The title of this literature review is sleep deprivation in hospitalized patients. This topic shall be examined by conducting a literature review, which is a critical appraisal of current and published works (Aveyard, 2010). This literature review will examine the body of evidence gathered from the search from various databases and thereafter, common themes will be identified. This evidence will be analyzed  in order to establish best evidence based  practice for sleep deprivation. Throughout this work, the CASP (1993) literature-critiquing framework determined the relevance and quality of research. The purpose of this…(short extract)