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Title: Which actions would the charge nurse evaluate as indicating “alarm fatigue” in a nurse who works ...
Post by: rpaleo on Apr 5, 2017
Which actions would the charge nurse evaluate as indicating “alarm fatigue” in a nurse who works in an intensive care unit (ICU)?

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1. The nurse completes measuring a patient’s urine before responding to a ventilator alarm in the next cubicle.
2. The nurse says, “Would you check this patient’s IV? The controller alarm keeps sounding.”
3. The manager discovers deactivation of a heart rate alarm in the rooms of two patients assigned to the nurse.
4. The nurse responds to the wrong cubicle when a ventilator alarm sounds.
5. The nurse responds to an alarm while saying, “I wish this patient would stop moving his arm around. It makes his IV alarm sound.”


Title: Re: Which actions would the charge nurse evaluate as indicating “alarm fatigue” in a nurse who ...
Post by: kocci on Apr 5, 2017
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Title: Re: Which actions would the charge nurse evaluate as indicating “alarm fatigue” in a nurse who works ...
Post by: rpaleo on May 25, 2017
Incredible answer, couldn't ask for more