A patient's nursing diagnosis is sleep-pattern disturbance.The desired outcome is: Patient will sleep for a minimum of 5 hours nightly by October 31.On November 1,review of sleep data for 6 days shows the patient slept an average of 4 hours nightly and took 2-hour afternoon naps daily.Which evaluation should be documented?

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Although the patient is sleeping 6 hours daily,uninterrupted sleep was not achieved.Therefore,the outcome was never demonstrated.

A Patient's Nursing Diagnosis Is Sleep-Pattern Disturbance