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- Title
Alarm Fatigue and the Factors that Affect iIt in Intensive Care Unit Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.
- Authors
Ilter, Sumeyra Mihrap; Ovayolu, Ozlem
- Abstract
Purpose: The study was conducted to examine the level of alarm fatigue of intensive care nurses and the affecting factors. Method: The study had a cross-sectional design and was conducted with nurses working in the intensive care units of a state university between January and March 2022, after the necessary permissions were obtained. The data of the study were collected with Questionnaire and Alarm Fatigue Scale. A minimum of 0 and a maximum of 36 points can be obtained from the Alarm Fatigue Scale. As the score obtained from the scale increases, so does the level of alarm fatigue. The data were evaluated with the Student t, One-Way ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis, and p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The level of alarm fatigue of intensive care nurses was found to be 24.18±4.60. It was also found that alarm fatigue was associated with age, marital status, working time in nursing and intensive care, and using technological devices (p<0.05). A total of 62.0% of the intensive care nurses considered that the use of medical technology devices affected care and 61.2% had difficulties in using medical technological devices. Conclusion and Suggestions: It was found that the level of alarm fatigue of the nurses was "moderate", and the duration of work in the profession and the intensive care unit affected alarm fatigue. It was also determined that the nurses had difficulties in the use of technological devices in the intensive care unit. In this direction, it is recommended to evaluate the alarm fatigue level of intensive care nurses and to provide training to nurses on the use of technological devices in intensive care.
- Subjects
INTENSIVE care units; PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; CROSS-sectional method; ONE-way analysis of variance; RESEARCH methodology; MONITOR alarms (Medicine); PSYCHOLOGY of nurses; T-test (Statistics); QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; FATIGUE (Physiology); PATIENT safety
- Publication
International Journal of Caring Sciences, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 3, p1523
- ISSN
1791-5201
- Publication type
Article