Journal of emergency nursing : JEN : official publication of the Emergency Department Nurses Association
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Practice Guideline
The Role of Emergency Nurses in Emergency Preparedness and Response.
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Frequent and long-term exposure to clinical alarms can cause emergency nurses to lose their trust in alarms, delay their response, and even disable or mute these alarms. ⋯ Clinical alarms represent an additional burden for emergency nurses where a substantial proportion of nurses have limited familiarity with alarm fatigue, lack knowledge about its causes and prevention strategies, and do not customize patient alarm parameters throughout their shifts.
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We aimed to determine the inter-rater reliability of ultrasonographic optic nerve sheath diameter measurements performed by emergency nurses. ⋯ There is good inter-rater reliability among emergency nurses with no previous experience in measuring the optic nerve sheath diameter with point-of-care ultrasound.