The nurse identifies a nursing diagnosis of disturbed sensory perception related to sleep deprivation for a patient in the ICU. An appropriate nursing intervention for this problem is to

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Clustering nursing activities and providing uninterrupted rest periods will minimize sleep-cycle disruption. Sedative and opioids medications tend to decrease the amount of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and can contribute to sleep disturbance and disturbed sensory perception. Silencing the alarms on the cardiac monitors would be unsafe in a critically ill patient, as would discontinuing assessments during the night.

The Nurse Identifies a Nursing Diagnosis of Disturbed Sensory Perception