Harm Associated with Clinical Alarm Systems

Leadership Action Plan

PowerPoint Slideshow Guidelines

Updated 9/2019

Purpose

The purpose of this PowerPoint presentation is to present the best plan of action, as a leader, assigned to make a change to a problem or issue in your place of work. If you are not presently working, use information from your prelicensure experience or previous healthcare experience. You will be using the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals to align with the problem or issue that you see in your workplace or most recent place of employment. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation and share how you will meet one of the goals in your place of work that will solve the problem or issue you have selected.

Course Outcomes

Completion of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.

CO1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO2)

CO2: Implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context of the interprofessional team through communication and relationship building. (PO3)

CO3: Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to change. (PO7)

CO7: Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3)

CO8: Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process and outcome measures to identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current practice. (PO8)

Due Dates

This assignment is to be submitted by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 6.

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Answer preview…………………..

Frequent hospital alarms become ineffective and may result in alarm fatigue to caregivers and increased harm to patients due to unanswered alarms. Frequent hospital alarms may also lead to dissatisfaction among both caregivers and patients in the hospital. Hospital alarms are significant but when they become many and unnecessary, they can overwhelm the staff members as well as patients. Alarm fatigue can be described as overload of clinicians’ sensory systems when they are exposed to excess alarms. This exposure leads to desensitization to clinical alarms hence, causing deaths.

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