... , Gillespie, Chaboyer, McInnes, Kent and Whitty put forward notions that too frequent repositioning has a negative effect on a patient's wellbeing, namely on sleep cycles. Gillespie (et al., 2012) argued that while two hourly repositioning underpinned current state guidelines by the Queensland Government (2008), this schedule can produce sleep disruption and fragmentation which in acutely ill ... patients, can prolong recovery, decrease immune function and make patients vulnerable to infection. Like the recommendations put forward by the Queensland Government (2009) and by Moore (et al.,...

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