Alarm clock

The Effect of Alarm Fatigue on Fall-Related Incidents Lillian Baird 3370 Professional Nursing BSN Program School of Nursing Troy University September 23, 2015 Overview of Clinical Problem: Working throughout a 25-bed critical access hospital in rural North Carolina, which serves a largely elderly population, the frequency of confused patients is so often, a policy has been implemented to initiate a bed-alarm on all new admissions for the first 24-hours. This clinical guideline has…

Monitor Alarm Fatigue: Preventing a Sentinel Event Nicholas D’Amario Carroll Community College Abstract Nurses working on monitored patient units hear the sounding alarms coming from cardiac monitors on a daily basis and overtime can become desensitized to these signals. Becoming immune to the sound of alarms may put a nurse’s patient in danger if the alarm results from a critical condition. These alarms are set in place to alert nurses to potential problems with a patient, however; fatigue…

national attention to alarm safety was gained after and adverse event occurred in Massachusetts that involved the death of an 89-year-old man. This death was attributed to an alarm that had been inadvertently turned off; therefore, staff was unaware of the changes in his heart rate the ultimately lead to his death (Drew et al., 2014; ERCI Institute, 2013). According to The Joint Commission (TJC) Sentinel Event Database, from January 2009 through June 2012 there were 98 alarm related events; 80…

Beep,Beep my alarm clock wailed as I excitedly went to get ready for school. When I was ready I speed off to school, but today I was so early that I decided I was going to take a different route. The route I took was the way my parents took when I had to ride home with them and most of the time it was because doctor appointment or rainy day. Then as I started running down the new route on Gibson street I saw a garden that had looked like it had just started, and it looked like it was the…

listen for a moment. It is faint at first, but gradually I hear the ticking of billions of clocks turning at varying speeds. Their sound grows louder the longer I listen and I wonder how I can be the only one to hear…

My dad woke me up by shouting, “WAKE UP! DO YOU KNOW WHAT TODAY IS?” I knew what day it was: the day we went on a six-hour road trip from Roselle to Minocqua, Wisconsin. I saw all of the big buildings turn into smaller buildings, then into trees as we drove north. My family had done this trip every year on the Fourth of July, for decades. The one reoccurring factor, though, was the state of protection, given by the surrounding cabins, lake and trees. First of all, the cabins that we had rented…

The “Ghost Clock” is a fascinating piece of artwork, done by the modern sculptor and furniture maker Wendell Castle. While the piece may appear to just be a grandfather clock covered with a sheet, it is actually one whole piece. The Ghost Clock is completely made of mahogany. To achieve the look of a sheet draped over a clock, Castle had to bleach the wood multiple times in order to strip it of all its natural color, seen on the bottom of the sculpture. This is part of what makes the piece…

There are many ways elements of the universe correlate to man-made matters, such as keeping time or organizing events, in a systematic manner. A common method of maintaining events and time in order is by the use of a calendar; a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving particular seasonal information. Not all calendars are arranged identically, as events and holidays can fall on different days each year, and time can be measured by different…

due to the “rude awakening” that the summer sun caused Franklin at 6:00 am in Paris. However, it wasn’t until 1905 that the first ever campaign to move the clocks forward between April and October was promoted; The “Waste of Daylight” measure was led by Englishman William Willet. One morning on horseback, Willet had the epiphany that the clocks should be moved forward by 80 minutes so that more people would be able to enjoy the abundance of sunlight. Subsequently, Willet used majority of his…

mother shouted for the fifth time, “You’re going to be late for school again!” I slowly opened my eyes looking at the clock. Great, 7:47 a.m., I thought to myself. Hurriedly, I quickly brushed my long black hair and rimming my green eyes with black eyeliner. I grabbed my bag and headed down the stairs. “Zanna you are seventeen years old, I should not be your walking alarm clock. I have to get ready too.” Rolling my eyes at her remark and replied, “It took me ten minutes to get ready; it…