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Alarm Fatigue, Gretta Weindorf, Jennifer Payne, Justin Eckberg, Hannah Eckberg
Alarm Fatigue, Gretta Weindorf, Jennifer Payne, Justin Eckberg, Hannah Eckberg
The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)
Alarm fatigue in hospital nursing settings is characterized and caused by false positive alarms and clinically insignificant alarms, sometimes referred to as the “crying wolf” effect (Gross, Dahl, & Nielsen, 2011; Funk, Clark, Bauld, Ott, & Coss, 2014). The phenomena of repeated false alarms over time causes nursing staff to become desensitized, responding less frequently and less punctually resulting in compromised patient care and safety (Konkani, Oakley, & Bauld, 2012). As estimated by The Joint Commission (2013), hereafter referred to as TJC, 85-99% of sounding alarms are insignificant, reinforced by Graham and Cvach (2010), who estimated less than 1% resulted …