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Article
Abstract
Alarm fatigue refers to the phenomenon of excessive alarms in the healthcare system leading to staff ignoring or not hearing alarms that need clinical intervention (Bosma & Christopher, 2023). Healthcare staff experiencing alarm fatigue and desensitization leads to patient harm events up to and including death (Dee et al., 2022). Several interventions have proven effective to reduce non-actionable alarms or alarms that do not require action by the clinician. Combining these evidence based interventions into a bundle of nurse led interventions provides increased effectiveness in reducing alarm fatigue. This evidence-based practice (EBP) project aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of bundle interventions using the CEASE acronym (communication, electrodes, appropriateness, setup, and education) to reduce nursing staff perception of alarm fatigue. Education on bundle components was provided for nursing staff and providers and the pilot period using the bundle lasted one month. Pre-intervention and post intervention surveys were answered anonymously and data analysed using the Mann-Whitney U test using SPSS software. No statistical significance was appreciated likely due to small sample size (pre-interveniton n=24, post-intervention n=12). Future work should include repeated pilot with a larger sample size over a longer time frame to gather statistically significant results to inform practice changes.
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Publication Date
1-25-2025
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Christina, "Reducing Alarm Fatigue" (2025). 2025. 1.
https://scholarlycollection.childrens.com/nursing-pubs2025/1
