New research in Nursing Outlook shows that frequent alarm burden—overwhelming alerts, delayed responses, and ignored alarms—significantly increases nurses’ odds of burnout. This has serious implications for nurse retention, hospital performance, and patient safety. 📖 Read the study: https://lnkd.in/gaQgxbcm Congrats to CHOPR’s Dr. Karen Lasater and co-authors Halley R., Maura Dougherty, and Mahima Kodavati on this important work! #NurseBurnout #PatientSafety #PennNursing #Nurses4All
Patient care technology is often lauded as an opportunity to reduce nurse workload and improve systems of care. However, when appropriate resources are not available to support integration of technology into clinical workflows, technologies may paradoxically harm patients and clinicians. For more than a decade, clinicians, researchers, and policy makers have expressed concern over the incessant alerts and alarms generated by clinical technologies both in terms of patient safety and the impact on hospital nurses’ well-being. A new cross-sectional study in Nursing Outlook examined the association between nurses’ experience of alarms and burnout, finding that nurses who frequently or occasionally experienced the alarm burden items (feeling overwhelmed by alarms, delaying response to alarms, and encountering ignored alarms) had significantly higher odds of burnout than those who rarely or never experienced them. The results have potential implications for nurse retention and overall hospital performance, in addition to patient safety. Read the full study in Nursing Outlook: https://lnkd.in/gaQgxbcm Thank you to authors Halley R., Maura Dougherty, Mahima Kodavati, and Karen Lasater.