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Rehabilitation Nurse
Positive Distractions Help

"Our rehab patients experience pain and difficulty at night when they try to sleep. These hours were particularly difficult for a young man in his early 20's who was rehabilitating from a traumatic accident that left him a quadriplegic. To provide him (and other patients) with some positive distractions, we installed The C.A.R.E. Channel, a 24-hour environmental channel that provides beautiful nature images and original instrumental music.

Nighttime programming on The C.A.R.E. Channel is specifically designed to respect the circadian rhythms by broadcasting a midnight starfield, which looks like a clear night sky and imbues a soft blue light into an otherwise dark hospital room. The young man reported that from the first night The C.A.R.E. Channel was available, the nighttime programming helped him sleep--late night hours that had been extremely difficult to endure."

Terry Craig, R.N., D.N.
Director of Patient Education
Craig Hospital Englewood, CO