Non Critical Alarming Case Study

In the August cardiac alarm audit, non critical alarms, including leads off, no signal, and replace battery, have increased by 10 minutes. The problem is that when we aren’t responding to these alarms our patients can’t be monitored. Also, not responding to non critical alarms can lead to alarm fatigue for critical alarms.
I understand that the cardiac alarms produce a lot of additional noise on the unit and are constantly alarming. However, the nursing staff must respond to these alarms in order to monitor our patients and take necessary action for critical alarms. In order to improve nursing staff response times to non critical alarms utilize the standby option when the patient isn’t present on the unit. Secondly, healthcare technicians