The nurse should include following points:
- Hypnotics may impair waking in a patient.
- Hypnotics may be addictive.
- Tapering of doses may be required after long term use.
<h3>What is Hypnotics?</h3>
Commonly referred to as sleeping pills, hypnotic (from the Greek hypnos, sleep), or soporific medications are a family of psychoactive pharmaceuticals (and an umbrella word for them) whose main purpose is to induce sleep (or anesthesia for surgery) and to cure insomnia (sleeplessness).
Sedatives and this class of medicines have similarities. Unlike sedatives, which are used to calm or reduce anxiety, hypnotics are used to define medications whose primary function is to induce, maintain, or extend sleep. Medications in this family are usually referred to as sedative-hypnotic drugs because these two functions frequently overlap and because they typically have dose-dependent effects (ranging from anxiolysis to loss of consciousness).
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