feeding pumps, pulse oximeters, intraaortic balloon pumps, sequential compression devices, and beds.”(Reisenwitz) Every time you walk into a hospital the main noise you constantly hear are the alarm monitors. The nurses begin to technically not hear the sound anymore. These alarm monitors have become very dangerous for our hospitals.
Alarm monitors can put patients safety in bad situations. “Since 1960, hospitals have become progressively noisier over time, leading to a false-alarm environment. When the staff hears alarms constantly going off, they realize a large majority are not emergencies, which leaves them to respond at a slower pace. When alarms are constant and mostly unintended, nurses and other clinicians may turn the alarms off, …show more content…
These alarms are designed to communicate information that requires a caregiver’s immediate attention, action, or awareness, and they are typically considered to be a key tool in patient safety. When they work as intended, clinical alarms enhance the care environment.”(Timothy) Studies show that they aren’t actually the best and there can be a better way to tell nurses when their patient needs help. “In a report released yesterday, the investigators said 10 nurses on duty that morning could not recall hearing the beeps at the central nurses’ station or seeing scrolling tickertape messages on three hallway signs that would have warned them as the patient’s heart rate fell and finally stopped over a 20-minute span.Additionally, federal investigators said the volume for a separate audible crisis alarm on the patient’s bedside monitor was turned off the night before by an unknown person. Mass. General executives had previously told the Globe that this crisis alarm had been inadvertently turned off. But investigators for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said that desensitization to alarms that actually sounded also was a factor in the patient’s death.”(Globe Staff) Even nurses know that alarm systems are dangerous, but they do help a nurse to know when their patient does actually need help. Alarm monitoring in hospitals isn't the best thing because nurses get alarm fatigue which can cause many problems, It puts patients in danger because nurses have a slower reaction time, and it wouldn’t be hard to think and come up with a better conclusion or way that will be easier and more efficient for nurses to know when a patient needs
Alarm monitors can put patients safety in bad situations. “Since 1960, hospitals have become progressively noisier over time, leading to a false-alarm environment. When the staff hears alarms constantly going off, they realize a large majority are not emergencies, which leaves them to respond at a slower pace. When alarms are constant and mostly unintended, nurses and other clinicians may turn the alarms off, …show more content…
These alarms are designed to communicate information that requires a caregiver’s immediate attention, action, or awareness, and they are typically considered to be a key tool in patient safety. When they work as intended, clinical alarms enhance the care environment.”(Timothy) Studies show that they aren’t actually the best and there can be a better way to tell nurses when their patient needs help. “In a report released yesterday, the investigators said 10 nurses on duty that morning could not recall hearing the beeps at the central nurses’ station or seeing scrolling tickertape messages on three hallway signs that would have warned them as the patient’s heart rate fell and finally stopped over a 20-minute span.Additionally, federal investigators said the volume for a separate audible crisis alarm on the patient’s bedside monitor was turned off the night before by an unknown person. Mass. General executives had previously told the Globe that this crisis alarm had been inadvertently turned off. But investigators for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said that desensitization to alarms that actually sounded also was a factor in the patient’s death.”(Globe Staff) Even nurses know that alarm systems are dangerous, but they do help a nurse to know when their patient does actually need help. Alarm monitoring in hospitals isn't the best thing because nurses get alarm fatigue which can cause many problems, It puts patients in danger because nurses have a slower reaction time, and it wouldn’t be hard to think and come up with a better conclusion or way that will be easier and more efficient for nurses to know when a patient needs