The Current Situation and Influencing Factors of the Alarm Fatigue of Nurses’ Medical Equipment in the Intensive Care Unit Based on Intelligent Medical Care

Abstract

After rapid development and reform, the health level and medical diagnosis and treatment capabilities of Chinese residents have been significantly improved, and high-quality medical resources have significantly improved the life safety and health of the masses. As the most concentrated area of medical equipment in the hospital, the intensive care unit produces the most alarms during the operation of the equipment. The intensive care unit nurses are responsible for heavier nursing work, and the problem of alarming in other departments is more prominent. Therefore, this paper presents an analysis and research on the current situation and influencing factors of the alarm fatigue of nurse medical equipment in the intensive care unit based on intelligent medicine. This article uses a variety of related methods such as literature data method and questionnaire survey method to deeply study the theoretical knowledge of intelligent medical treatment, medical equipment alarm fatigue device, and so on. The logistic regression analysis method is introduced to classify its influencing factors, and the analysis experiment on the influencing factors of the medical equipment alarm fatigue of nurses in the intensive care unit is designed. The nurses’ cognition of clinical alarms and the analysis of clinical alarm fatigue questionnaire data are studied. The alarm fatigue of nurses in the intensive care unit is at a severe level, which needs to be taken seriously in the intensive care unit. Unmarried, high-level positions, long working years, high professional titles, and high education are negatively correlated with alarm fatigue ( P < 0.05 ), and those without an alarm habit are positively correlated with alarm fatigue ( P < 0.05 ), and the number of night shifts per month is related to alarm fatigue. There is no correlation between them ( P > 0.05 ).

Alarm fatigue and moral distress in ICU nurses in COVID-19 pandemic

“…Also Bourji et al (2020) show that the mean alarm fatigue score was higher in males and in nurses with higher levels of education [ 38 ]. But Zhao et al (2021) show that high education are negatively correlated with alarm fatigue [ 39 ]. Perhaps the reason for this difference is in the existence of COVID-19 condition and the type and environment of the study.…”

The effects of alarm fatigue on the tendency to make medical errors in nurses working in intensive care units

“…It was determined that the ICU nurses who participated in this study had moderate alarm fatigue levels (Table 2). Among previous studies, levels of alarm fatigue among intensive care nurses were reported to be high in China 24 and to be moderate 5 in Korea. In their study conducted in Pennsylvania in the United States, Storm and Chen 23 found the alarm fatigue rate of intensive care nurses as 40%, while Elhessewi and Eldin 25 in the Behira Governorate in Egypt determined this rate to be 66.92%.…”

The effect of applying alarm fatigue strategies related to nursing performance

“…25 Another study result also shows that high-level positions, long working years, high professional titles, and high education are negatively correlated with alarm fatigue. 26 Notwithstanding the interesting results, this research has some limitations. The first limitation of this study was that the perceptions of all critical care nurses were not included as they also adopting alarm monitoring in the nursing performance.…”