Alarm Fatigue in Health Care: A Concept Analysis
Alarm fatigue in health care has grown to be an ever-growing concern in the health care arena,
especially when looking at patient safety concerns. There must be an understanding of the
problem before we can develop policies and effective strategies to counter this problem. The
concept of alarm fatigue in health care will be evaluated utilizing the method developed by
Walker and Avant (2010) that identifies and gives the significance of the attributes, antecedents,
and end-consequences of alarm fatigue in health care