NR361 Week 6 Discussion: Distractors in our Environments
Distractions are everywhere. They may include cellphones, multiple alarms sounding, overhead paging, monitors beeping, and various interruptions that disrupt your clinical practice.
Give an example of an ethical or legal issue that may arise if a patient has a poor outcome or sentinel event because of a distraction such as alarm fatigue. What does evidence reveal about alarm fatigue and distractions in healthcare when it comes to patient safety?
Solution
Week 6 Discussion: Distractors in our Environments
Alarm fatigue is associated with many legal and ethical concerns. One legal-ethical issue that may arise due to alarm fatigue is negligence. Alarms, despite having been developed to improve patient safety, can prove dangerous to patient safety. Excessive alarm frequency and high rates of false alarms lead to desensitization of the nurses to the signals. This then causes delays in responding to the alerts with some being unintentionally missed. Some nurses even turn off or turn the volume’s alarms down to avoid the distractions that come with it (Hebda, Hunter, & Czar, 2019).…………………….please follow the link below to purchase the solution for $5
