https://doi.org/10.4081/scenario.2022.516
The Cry-Wolf Effect. Nurses and false alarms in the intensive care unit
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Scientific and technological development has led to an exponential increase in Intensive Therapies of clinical alarms coming from different devices and, consequently, false alarms, to which environmental noises are added. Increasingly, nurses fail to distinguish different types of alarm and describe a feeling of fatigue from alarm. The high frequency of false alarms can lead to the so-called Cry Wolf Effect, which can cause nurses to consider false alarms that are actually significant.
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Mastrogirolamo, M., Gatta, L., & Bove, D. (2022). The <i>Cry-Wolf Effect</i>. Nurses and false alarms in the intensive care unit. Scenario® - Il Nursing Nella Sopravvivenza, 39(2), 35–40. https://doi.org/10.4081/scenario.2022.516
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