Silent Alarm

The current American emergency alert broadcast system traces its roots back to the Cold War Era. The years have passed, technology has advanced and the American population has grown. Over the years, the alert broadcast system has changed in fits and starts. Overall, however, it has failed to keep pace with the population increase and technological environment. Attempts have been made to plug the gaps in broadcast coverage, in reality, the stopgap and partial methods are inadequate. A multitude of

consequences of alarm fatigue is crucial in the safety of patients. The Informatic Nurse Specialist along with the nurse manager and alarm committee will individualize and customize alarm thresholds to limits that are clinically appropriate for individual patients to decrease the incidence of nuisance and false alarms that distract staff members and contribute to alarm fatigue ( Cvach,2012; Evans,Shumante & Lovelace, 2011). Staff will be re-educated on the appropriate use of alarm systems to help

Background A sentinel alarm event occurred at several hospitals within the AW Network, which prompted the Pennsylvania Department of Health to conduct a Center for Medicare Services level investigation. This type of investigation requires an action plan with a measure of correction. Parallel with the alarm events, the Joint Commission had created the National Patient Safety Goal 06.01.01, also known as goal six, to reduce harm associated with clinical alarms (The Joint Commission, 2014). The potential

each encompassing 33,000 square feet. The increase in geography posed new challenges for clinical staff with regard to alarm management. Crisis monitor alarms were programmed to populate the bedside physiologic monitoring screens in zoned clinical areas. This allowed clinicians to view the alarm condition and respond appropriately to area alarms. The units established an alarm management team in 2013 with the goal to meet the requirements of NPSG.06.01.01. The team consisted of representatives from

How do deaf people use telephones? What about doorbells and alarm clocks?      There are many everyday devises that we hearing people take for granted, among these are telephones, smoke alarms, doorbells, and alarm clocks. When we look at how members of the deaf community use these everyday items we must consider that members within the community have very different communication needs, abilities, and preferences. Hard-of-hearing people for example can use a standard telephone

Improving Clinical Alarm Safety The topic I have chosen for my Portfolio Project is “Improving clinical alarm safety in hospitals.” As a member my organization’s Quality Improvement Team, I have been recently involved in an initiative to establish “alarm safety” as a priority for leadership of our hospital. My interest in the success of this initiative stems from a strong desire to be involved in the development of “safe” patient care delivery systems. As I research this topic and “problem”

patient safety hazard known as “alarm fatigue”. Alarm fatigue occurs when caregivers are desensitized by the frequent sounding of competing alarms from medical equipment, and other sources in a healthcare setting. Clinical alarms can be unintentionally overlooked as background noise, and drown out actionable warning signs that require vital clinical interventions. These alarm safety issues have led to unfavorable and, at times, even fatal patient outcomes. Alarm fatigue is a complex and multi-faceted

hybrid model for intrusion detection and prevention system for cloud infrastructure, which has improved the quality of detecting the unidentified attack via anomaly-based detection along with a module which will try to diminish the number of false alarms which are generated by the system. Our proposed system finds random attacks in network and prevents these attacks automatically using the mechanism. Keywords- Intrusion detection system, Security, K-learning algorithm, Snort tool, Prevention, Network

provide sufficient time for a thorough analysis — each team member would be able to review fewer than 100 alerts per day. After weeks or months of facing a mountain of alerts that they cannot possibly clear, staff members may become desensitized to alarms, leading them to overlook alerts on legitimate threats. Given the scarcity of qualified personnel, many companies are also forced to rely on staff members with little experience in the "real world" or little training in SOC procedures, increasing

The implementation of electromagnetic tracking (EM) to verify nasogastric tube placement is a new concept that can provide better and safer patient care. Many people die of improper placement of nasogastric tube each year. The misplacement of these tubes, if not verified correctly, can cause severe injury to the patient or even death. Fundamentals of Nursing, believe that X-ray is the best way to verify placement (Potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall, 2013). In the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics