Michels, E. A., Gilbert, S., Koval, I., & Wekenborg, M. K. (2025a). Alarm fatigue in Healthcare: A scoping review of definitions, influencing factors, and mitigation strategies. BMC Nursing, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-025-03369-2

Description:
This article gives a good working definition of alarm fatigue, while also identifying contributing factors and consequences. This resource is a good starting point for defining alarm fatigue.

Relevance:
This article is relevant to the safety improvement plan because the first step in the plan is making sure that nurses have a good understanding of the safety issue.

Uses in Practice:
This article is useful to nurses in practice because it helps identify specific factors and care processes that contribute to worsening alarm fatigue.

Uçak, A., Cebeci, F., & Tat Çatal, A. (2025). Nurses’ alarm fatigue levels in adult intensive care units and their strategies to reduce fatigue: A convergent parallel design. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 34(5), 1691–1703. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.17644

Description:
This article followed around nurses to get their insights on how alarm fatigue feels and how it impacts the way they care for patients. The article also states ways that nurses deal with alarm fatigue.

Relevance:
This article is relevant to the safety improvement plan because it shows direct insight by frontline nurses that deal with alarm fatigue. 

Uses in Practice:
This article is useful because it illustrates how nurses experience the onset of alarm fatigue and offers practical strategies nurses can use to mitigate its effects in clinical practice.

 Kibar, D., & Özsaban, A. (2025). Impact of alarm management training on adult ICU nurses’ knowledge, behaviour, and fatigue: A quasi‐

experimental study. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 31(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.70127

Description:
This article gives real life experiences from nurses on how alarm management training helped them with alarm fatigue.

Relevance:
This article is relevant to the safety improvement plan because it demonstrates, in real-world clinical practice, the outcomes of implementing an improved alarm safety plan.

Uses in Practice:
This article is useful in practice to show real-world examples of how safety improvement plans can benefit nurses.

Zhu, L., Wei, S., An, Y., Hu, W., & Xie, X. (2025). Mechanism, contributing factors, and coping strategies of alarm fatigue in Intensive Care Nursing: A qualitative study. Frontiers in Public Health, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1654389

Description:
This study took a closer look at the contributing factors to alarm fatigue in the ICU. This study found both organizational and clinical factors that contributed to alarm fatigue.

Relevance:
This is relevant to the improvement plan because it educates nurses on contributing factors to look for.

Uses in Practice:
This study can be used as a guide in your practice to look for contributing factors of alarm fatigue.