sammy, absolutely right. Add in no mobiles, no plinking away on the laptop either, if you are lying there feeling very ill, where sleep is almost impossible because lights are always on, and the staff are nattering at the nurse station, then surely some consideration is needed.
One last thing and it's a biggie, tell the dingbrains that if a person has a fall, they don't do it to annoy the staff, so damn well pick them up,
we were told if my relative did have a fall, and it was likely, she would have to wait before the effing paramedics were called, so could have been lying on the ward or room for ages.