A nurse caring for a patient with a chair alarm will do which of the following interventions as recommended by the 2016 National Safety Goals to prevent alarm fatigue.

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Bed and chair alarms along with cardiac and oxygen sensor alarms are among the alarms specified in the 2015 National Patient Safety Goal of improving the safety of medical alarms. All medical equipment alarms need to be closely monitored and checked for functionality and volume at the start of the shift and frequently throughout the shift. Steps need to be taken to prevent the catastrophic outcomes of alarm fatigue (Box 20-4). Alarm fatigue occurs when nurses become desensitized to patient care alarms and then either miss or delay response to an alarm. These absent or delayed responses have resulted in adverse patient outcomes (Sendelback, S. and Funk 2013).

A Nurse Caring for a Patient with a Chair Alarm