My Current Project - Music Medicine
Future Projects
Sleep
Sleep is important, especially while on an in-patient mental health unit. Yet, accurately tracking patient sleep is difficult (Ogasawara et al., 2023). Everyday technology can overcome this challenge. This Quality Initiative will attempt to implement sleep monitoring technology to more accurately monitor sleep.
Safety
Safety checks while patients are sleeping can be intrusive as bedroom doors must often be opened to check on patient well-being. The use of technology to unobtrusively monitor patients while asleep has been suggested (Barrera et al., 2020). This Quality Initiative will examine the use night-vision as a non-intrusive method to monitor patients while asleep.
References
Barrera, A., Gee, C., Wood, A., Gibson, O., Bayley, D., & Geddes, J. (2020). Introducing artificial intelligence in acute psychiatric inpatient care: Qualitative study of its use to conduct nursing observations. Evidence‑Based Mental Health, 23(1), 11–16 https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2019-300136
Ogasawara, M., Takeshima, M., Kosaka, S., Imanishi, A., Itoh, Y., Fujiwara, D., Yoshizawa, K., Ozaki, N., Nakagome, K., & Mishima, K. (2023). Exploratory validation of sleep‑tracking devices in patients with psychiatric disorders. Nature and Science of Sleep, 15, 301–312. https://doi.org/10.2147/NSS.S400944