Ideas That Work: Gentle Awakenings

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Try Tickling Their Eyelashes


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GENTLE AWAKENINGS
Try Tickling Their Eyelashes

Instead of nudging patients or shouting at them until they wake up, gently brush their eyelashes with your finger. Patients usually try to wipe away whatever is tickling their eye and they wake up much more gently.

Denese Rakestraw, RN
Prince William Surgery Center
Manassas, Va.
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