‘Getting it right for sleep at night: Guidance for promoting sleep and reducing harm from inappropriate pharmacologic management of sleep disturbance and insomnia in hospitalised patients’ Full guidance document (including scenarios)

• Pathways for managing sleep disturbance/insomnia in non-critically ill hospitalised adults
  • Treatment naïve patients [link]
  • Non-treatment naïve patients (recently taking medicines for night sedation) [link]
• Managing sleep checklist [link]
• Table of system-wide non-pharmacological interventions to promote sleep in hospital [link]
  • Summary poster and checklist [link]
• Quick guide: question and answer tool about medicines for sleep [link]
• Patient/consumer information booklet: Sleeping in hospital [link] (print double-sided for booklet format)
• Summary table of useful sleep resources for healthcare professionals and patients/carers [link]
• Summary of adverse effects of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs [link]
• Acceptable indications for listing benzodiazepines on the hospital formulary [link]
•  Templates
  • Streamlined Individual Patient Usage (IPU) declaration form for use of Temazepam for night sedation [MS Word fillable] [PDF fillable]
  • Written patient consent form Temazepam initiation [PDF fillable]
  • Verbal patient consent form/guide Temazepam initiation [MS Word fillable] [PDF fillable]
• Clinical indicators (see section 17 of full guidance document)