Research Article Analysis Paper

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
2. Selection of Research Interest Area.........................................................................................3
The Research Question(S)...........................................................................................................4
3. Overview of the research..........................................................................................................5
4. Foundation for the Studies.......................................................................................................5
5. Conduct the Research...............................................................................................................7
6. Analysis and Reporting of the Research..................................................................................8
7. Usefulness of the research........................................................................................................9
8. Conclusion................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Research Article Analysis Paper
1. Introduction
Monitor alarms are usually used in intensive medical care unit to alert the medical
officers and nurses of the patient condition in the hospital (Brantley et al., 2016). These alarms
have been of help since nurses can react to patients’ conditions in real time and offer medical
services in order to save lives (Brantley et al., 2016). This alarm fatigue occurs due to artifact
and physiological change which exceed the upper and lower limit.
Medical staffs can sometimes ignore an alarm alert or signal in intensive care unit and
may assume it for a nuisance or non-actionable alarm. However, the signal might be true thus
worsening the condition of patients. Consequently, the patient in the intensive care unit may be
in danger and risk of death (Brantley et al., 2016). Additionally, the nuisance of the alarms might
irritate the patients in a room preventing them from getting enough sleep time. This paper
proposes to critique or rather analyze the research on educational programs for clinicians to
reduce alarm events in intensive care unit.
2. Selection of Research Interest Area
As a medical student, doing research can be a challenging experience particularly when
choosing the type of reading materials to use. Consequently, I am often forced to do a lot of
research to come up with relevant sources for any study at hand. I chose the current journal given
the fact that it is a well-crafted book that highlights clinical research in identifying effective
interventions for non-actionable alarms. Additionally, the book has succeeded in determining
whether staff educational program, particularly on the idea of customizing alarms on the bedside,
could reduce alarms in various intensive care units. There are multiple instances where lives
have been lost due to nonfunctional signals in the intensive care unit. As a result, I have always

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wanted to study the topic and certainly come up with some deductions. This book is, therefore,
an active material in achieving this objective.
There are various experiences that I have gone through as a nursing student and future
expert; however, one scenario that struck me was when I was in an internship, and there was a
patient who died because of alarm. On that day, I was in a night shift, and the alarm that was
expected to notify medical practitioners in case of an emergency failed on that night. As a result,
the patient succumbed to high blood pressure. This made me interested in studying the current
topic and finding out the necessary programs to educate nurses on alarms in intensive care units.
The selected article is, therefore, a principal source given the fact that it has delved enough on
the ways of reducing monitor alarm signals in ICU
The Research Question(S)
Cases of monitor alarms signals events have increased in critical unit across the globe. As
result, experts have anticipated that more than three hundred physiological monitor alarms
signals tend to occur for virtually all patients in hospitals. Consequently, the guiding research
question for this paper is to determine whether educational programs, particularly for nurses on
the management of alarms in hospitals especially for non-ECG psychological constraints, could
end up reducing Spo2 alarm signal in every patient in a day (Brantley et al., 2016).
3. Overview of the Research
From the article, the author conducted an educational program about alarm management
on clinical staffs. The investigation led was experimental, and it was successful (Brantley et al.,
2016). The author conducted a study where 20-bed MICU, which included a number of 54
registered nurses who were deployed to about 0.2 to 1.0 full-time equivalent (Brantley et al.,
2016). The nurses were monitoring each bedside with all patient monitored for ECG rhythm,