A study, published in JAMA pediatrics, examined the factors that affect response time to physiologic monitor alarms among nurses in a hospital medical unit. Researchers investigated nurse response to ...

New evidence-based bundle standardizes SICU's clinical alarm management practices. After a Florida hospital surgical intensive care unit (SICU) improved clinical alarm management practices, staff ...

Alarm fatigue is sensory overload nurses experience when exposed to the nonstop beeping of monitors, pumps and other machines in hospital rooms. The result is not only a desensitization to alarms, but ...