Which actions would the charge nurse evaluate as indicating "alarm fatigue" in a nurse who works in an intensive care unit (ICU)?
1. The nurse completes measuring a patient's urine before responding to a ventilator alarm in the next cubicle.
2. The nurse says, "Would you check this patient's IV? The controller alarm keeps sounding."
3. The manager discovers deactivation of a heart rate alarm in the rooms of two patients assigned to the nurse.
4. The nurse responds to the wrong cubicle when a ventilator alarm sounds.
5. The nurse responds to an alarm while saying, "I wish this patient would stop moving his arm around. It makes his IV alarm sound."
1, 3
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