Interview with Gina Murphy, lead author of “Quiet at Night: Implementing a Nightingale Principle” (December 2013).

If you’ve ever been a patient in a hospital, you know how noisy it is, even at night. One unit at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center decided to embark on a quality improvement project aimed at decreasing noise to promote sleep. Gina Murphy, the nurse manager of the unit and the lead author, discusses the project with AJN’s editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy.