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Did you know its actually a crime to sit in traffic and constantly honk your horn for no reason at all? That's because alerts are supposed to actually alert so
by ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
Did you know its actually a crime to sit in traffic and constantly honk your horn for no reason at all? That's because alerts are supposed to actually alert someone of something. By constantly sounding alerts for basically no reason, you are creating an unsafe environment, because REAL alerts will be ignored.
I've sat by those beds, and had alarms not stop for 12 hours straight. They don't get nurses to come by and check, they aren't alerting to anything important and they are completely ignored.
I believe the company should be sued, not for the GROSS negligence of the nurse unplugging every system, but for the minor negligence of designing a system where constant alerts that don't really mean anything or require any action can't be silenced.
- mc32 9y agoThe problem is she not only turned off the alarms and beeps in the patient room, but also all the notifications going to nurses' station and pagers, so when the real bad thing happened, no one got alerted.