Don 't Be Alarmed?

Initially, a search using the CINAHL database with CINAHL heading bed alarm and limited to the English language yielded 14 articles, three which were appropriate to this study. The CINAHL headings bed alarm AND hourly rounding did not generate any results. However, CINAHL headings hourly rounding AND fall generated one article that was useful to this study.

You're in bed, feeling serene, having the perfect nights' sleep of your life. You wish it could go on eternally. Suddenly ''BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!", your alarm clock goes off and you comprehend that it's time for school, sound familiar? The subject of start times of school has been a very popular topic.  As many people already know, sleep is an exceedingly significant habit. As stated in the previous newscast, "Sleep physical, emotional, and mental health." Furthermore, students struggle with this habit.

This article explains the importance of getting the perfect amount of sleep at night. The idea that sleeping for less than five hours or more than nine hours proves to have a negative effect on the human body. Sleep deprivation has a closely related link to memory retention and can cause a person to have trouble with daily task. The author continues to explain that not only is the brain effected by too little or too much sleep, but the rest of the body is also effected. Conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and even depression have links to not getting the perfect amount of sleep. The article concludes with listing tips to get the ideal amount of sleep at night, such as, going to sleep and waking up at the same time every day and limiting the amount of caffeine that is consumed throughout the day.

Children shouldn't need an alarm clock to wake them up in the morning, this means their not getting enough sleep, therefore there body isn't getting enough energy to wake thier body up naturally.The production of melatonin, the body's sleep hormone, occurs later at night during puberty. This makes it more difficult for teens to fall asleep before 11pm and waking up before 8am.

Medicine is an always evolving field, and continues to grow in the pursuit of people health benefit. As time has passed better research studies, discoveries, treatments and improvement of patient outcomes has been the pride of the medical field. However; despite all the improvements in medical advancement, preventable medical errors have become a major problem in the field. About a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) investigated and created the report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, in that report the IOM came to the conclusion that approximately 98,000 people has died yearly in the United States as a consequence of an preventable medical error (RWJF, 2011). Some of these errors are caused

I had a personal experience with the effects of alarm fatigue this semester. I was working with an RN who graduated from JMU in 2010. We had multiple difficult patients whom would ring their call bells or mess with their equipment every chance they got. The nurse seemed annoyed with the alarms and began responding more slowly and silencing alarms. After lunch, I went to check on my patient and saw multiple nurses in her room. A tech told me that her IV had infiltrated and nobody

Late to bed, early to rise—this epigram sums up the dangerously unhealthy relationship Americans have with sleep. It is absurd that society treats chronically missing sleep, one of the biggest risks to mental health that humans face, as nothing more than a minor issue. Unfortunately, the problem is so prevalent that few want to acknowledge its consequences. Because of early shifts and commitments in the morning, and extra work or late shifts at night, a minority of people have the luxury of being able to sleep ad libitum every night. I have experienced this first-hand; with high school taking up my morning and afternoon, and a part-time job taking up my evening, I am left with a narrow strip of time from about 10pm to 6am during which I need to get schoolwork done and somehow find time to sleep.

According to Myers and DeWall, “studies in Europe, Japan, and the United States show that children and adults who suffer from sleep loss are more vulnerable to obesity. With sleep deprivation, the levels of leptin (which reports body fat to the brain) fall, and ghrelin (the appetite-stimulating stomach hormone) rise” (Keith, 2006 as cited by Myers and DeWall, 2015). It is important that we regulate our sleep so that we can get the most sleep possible, because it is important for maintaining body weight and hunger hormones. According to Myers and DeWall, the

Many factors build that significance. In the article, “Monitor Alarm Fatigue: An Integrative Review”, the author describes five themes from research gathered:3 (Cvach, M.)

Everyone has done it before, whether you wake up late or hit snooze just one to many times, you have to rush your morning routine to make it somewhere on time.

The vast majority of police officers work a variety of shift schedules. Traditional police organizations separate each day or 24- hour period into three tours also called shifts, watches or platoons (Dempsey & Forst, 2005). Some police agencies employ the traditional 8 hour shift, while others engage a 10 hour shift or a 12 hour shift has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and sleep disorders, attributable to its propensity for circadian rhythm dysfunction. “Police officers have been shown to exhibit an increased prevalence of fatigue, which may predispose them to greater frequency of accidents and workplace injuries” (Elliot, 2016, p. 13). Concerns have been raised over extended work hour, specifically the deleterious effects upon health and sleep quality that may potentiate fatigue and sleepiness. Despite being used synonymously, due to symptomatic similarities, sleepiness and fatigue have been found to be distinct and will compromise an individual’s performance. The suggested ergonomic and social benefits not withstanding shiftwork has

has on the lives of nurses (Matheson, O’Brien, & Reid, 2014). This article was significant to the nursing student’s evidence based practice research as it identified common consequences associated with shift work on a nurse’s health, which is the primary purpose of this paper. There were several databases used to complete the literature review. Some of the databases included CINAHL, EBSCO Host, JSTOR, Medline/PubMed and Google Scholar (Matheson, O’Brien, & Reid, 2014). One of the findings in the literature review discussed a disorder called “shift work syndrome”, which is a result of the disturbances in the circadian rhythm with symptoms of extreme tiredness, inability to sleep, and exhaustion (Matheson, O’Brien, & Reid, 2014). These symptoms

Sleep is an essential part of any person’s health, however few people seem to realize that not receiving enough sleep can double the risk of becoming obese.“The ‘epidemic’ of obesity is paralleled by a ‘silent epidemic’ of reduced sleep duration with short sleep duration linked to the increased risk of obesity both in adults and in children”(Professor Cappuio). Someone who has developed a sleeping disorder such as, sleep apnea, may not have the motivation to diet or exercise, due to daytime sleepiness. Scientists at the University of Chicago conucted a study in 1999, which restricted eleven healthy young adults to four hours of sleep for six nights. The scientist discovered that restricting individuals to this amount of sleep impaired metabolism functions and disrupted hormone levels. It was also found that the subject’s abilities to process glucose in the blood had declined, in some cases to the level of diabities. ” Not only does obesity contribute to sleep problems such as sleep apnea, but sleep problems can also contribute to obesity.”(National Sleep Foundation)

The term ‘Shift work’ is usually referred to uniformly divided allocations of the day in which individuals participate alternatively to provide twenty four hour coverage. A shift in sleep schedule conflicts with the body’s natural clock also known as the circadian rhythm into interpreting the time as ‘inappropriate’ and disrupts the homeostatic regulation cycle resulting in poor health outcomes. Fortunately, it is deemed possible to counter unfavourable effects of alternating insomnia and sleepiness through certain practices.

In 2005 Gauri Nanda, supported by neuroscience research that demonstrated the depth of the average American’s sleep deficiency problem, created significant media buzz with the prototype of her revolutionary alarm clock “Clocky”. Unsure of how to position a product that had a growing following but was still over a year away from production, Nanda was faced with a number of difficult decisions as she attempted to devise a marketing plan to bring her Clocky project to fruition. The following is our analysis of her situation, and suggestions on how she should proceed.