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Nurses’ responses to monitor alarms in an intensive care unit: An observational study
- Source :
- Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 59:102845
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Objective The present study aimed to determine the types of monitor alarms and nurses’ responses to them in an adult intensive care unit. Design and methods This was an observational descriptive research study conducted in the adult intensive care unit of a university hospital in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The nonparticipant observation method was used. Data were collected by two observers using a semi-structured observation form developed according to literature. Results Between August 2016 and January 2017, 13 registered nurses were observed for 328 hours. There were 1781 alarms, which included alarms for blood pressure (37.6%), respiration and oxygen saturation (35.3%) and heart rate and arrhythmia (27.1%). Nurses responded to approximately half (46.9%) of the alarms that required a response. Responses to alarms included silencing them, responding to the patient’s clinical condition and solving contact and transmission problems. Conclusion In the present study, according to response requirement, the division of the alarms was different. The number of alarms that do not reflect the clinical status of the patient was high. It was found that as the false alarm rate increased, the response rate of nurses to these alarms decreased.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Turkey
Nurses
Critical Care Nursing
Statistics, Nonparametric
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
law
Surveys and Questionnaires
Heart rate
Humans
Medicine
Observation method
Oxygen saturation (medicine)
Response rate (survey)
Chi-Square Distribution
030504 nursing
business.industry
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
Middle Aged
University hospital
Intensive care unit
Intensive Care Units
Blood pressure
Clinical Alarms
Emergency medicine
Female
Observational study
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09643397
- Volume :
- 59
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ff83853d6fd83efe0ac9bd717e6f9e32