Abstract
A fieldwork study conducted in six units of a major metropolitan Australian hospital revealed that nurses' attitudes towards alarms are influenced by each unit's physical layout and caseload. Additionally, nurses relied heavily on both non-actionable and actionable alarms to maintain their awareness of the status of their patients' wellbeing, and used auditory alarms beyond the scope of their intended design. Results suggest that before reducing or removing auditory alarms from the clinical environment to improve patient safety, it is important to understand how nurses in different clinical contexts use current alarm systems to extract meaningful information. Such an understanding could guide appropriate alarm reduction strategies and guide alternative design solutions to support nurses' situation awareness during monitoring.
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