Nurses’ Performance Regarding ICU Devices Alarms

Abstract

Alarms play a crucial role alerting people on emergency situations. Clinical alarms in thehospital in the same sense are very crucial in determining the patient’s condition. This is more so in the critical care units where patients are unconscious and cannot speak out. (Meng’anyi, et al., 2017) Alarm management in ICU is an important task in the management of patient care to ensure patient safety. It is an area that is not well explored and does require additional awareness. Awareness of the concepts of alarm management and what factors contribute to poor management of alarms would be beneficial. In the healthcare industry it is important that we provide appropriate working conditions and resources for healthcare staff to be able to carry out their responsibilities and duties of delivering quality patient care. Alarms on medical devices do not replace the nurse’s ability to manage her patient but is an aid in identifying potential changes in patient condition as a means of early warning. The misuse of these medical device alarm aids can