Prayer can help make you sleep! Promise.

When I was still in Nursing schooll, at Mountain View College, in Valencia, Bukidnon Philippines. When we were about to start our stint as student nurse one the requirements for us by our Clinical Instructor was pray for your patients. Not only that our Clinical Instructor will really go with us to just pray for our patients. Funny huh… but it sure gave an impact to one of my first patient who we studied for our Case Presentation.

First night for my 2 night work , here at Baylor Universty Medical Center, my friend took care of these patients who cannot sleep i can remember he called my colleague for a sleeping pill but its the hospiatal’s policy not to give a sleeping pill after 2am and the patient already had taken his sleeping pill and he’s still awake nnothing we can do. Even if you call the MD for it, the MD will just bark at you for that silly information. Of course the reason for that is that we don’t want our patient sleeping whole day and awake whole night.

Well anyway next night I was that patient’s nurse I already gave him all his nght meds including his sleeping pill(whichever ambien, restoril, benadryl, etc.) at nine in the evening. Yet at midnight I got a call from the call light system with his voice saying I can’t sleep. I was frustrated because I dont have anythiing to give him anymore so I went to his room and talked to him and explained to him that he should decrease or not to take a nap during the day, I also offered to get him milk taking in to account milk has a property that makes you sleep but he said no, and I told him that Baylor TV has a Sleep Channel, and he said I will try that… so I turned his TV on Baylor Sleep Channel and told to count his sheeps or his blessings and put off all the lights… but before I approached the door I told him Don’t forget to pray! and he said ok…

an hour later my Tech Karen Maranca came over to me and saidd that the patient want to see me and she told me that the patient wants to thank me about the advice I gave, but I didnt go I gave him uninterrupted sleep and by morning I went to see him I cant belive the impact of that peice of advice. Later he told me that after I told him to pray he took out his rosary and put it on, and prayed and that made him sleep. He was saying its his best sleep for a long time. I admit i was teary when he told me that.

and a week ago I was told that he came over to our floor to give thanks to all of us who took care of him. Im happy to know that.

Now the trick if you want to go to sleep Pray sincerely.. you wouldnt know or you might not even finish your prayer youre already asleep. that happened to me many times.

Thanks MVC for the education. And to my patient God Bless you!