¶ … Noise Reduction Medical care institutions have come up with various strategies to reduce noise generated within their facilities. However, this has remained quiet a challenge. The situation has never been rosier even in the private rooms within such facilities. Matters have worsened bearing in mind that hospitals have become increasingly open with more liberal visiting hours and policies that permit cell phones and other devices (Cmiel, Karr, Gasser, Oliphant & Neveau, 2004). The war is not yet lost because some medical facilities have come up with ways of reducing noise like reducing the frequency and intensity of medical alarms, dimming lights in the evening, and replacing nurses' pagers and walkie-talkies with mobile headsets. Walkie-talkies and pagers make all manner of noises during a typical night in a hospital bed. Patients are also being provided with Quiet Kits (Landro, 2013). The use of information technology is really taking the war against noise in the hospital a notch...

Other than the replacement of pagers and walkie-talkies with the headsets, patients are also being provided with Quiet Kits, white-noise machines, and headsets for TV's and iPads. Information technology is also used to induce relaxation and improve the quality of sleep (Landro, 2013). This is especially true under circumstances when hospitals provide The CARE Channel that provides continuous ambient relaxation environment. This channel offers a 24/7 television menu of original instrumentation music and nature imagery including a starry night sky. Hospitals have also come with ways of mitigating the noise menace by masking intrusive sound and distracting patients from the cacophony. Hospitals have also invested in ambient white noise machines and sound absorbing ceiling tiles and carpets in rooms and corridors.
Noise in hospitals especially those coming from the pagers and walkie-talkies is something that has to be addressed amicable because it disturbs patient's sleep, prompts spikes…