Additional file 1: of Assessment of nurses interventions in the Management of Clinical Alarms in the critical care unit, Kenyatta National Hospital, a cross sectional study

Data set for the Assessment of Nurses Interventions in the Management of Clinical Alarms in the Critical Care Unit. This data set contains all the data collected from a larger study conducted to assess the management of clinical alarms in the nursing care of critically ill patients at the critical care unit, KNH. Some of the variables captured were used to assess the other specific objectives in the larger study. For this particular manuscript the variables that are relevant are; the social demographic variables such as, age, gender, professional qualification, years that the participant has worked as a nurse, years that the participant has worked in CCU, whether the participant is trained in Critical Care Nursing, if the participant has been trained on alarm management, the number of hours of training and the year he or she was trained. Another variable captured in the dataset that is applicable in this manuscript is alarms that the nurses are more likely to respond to, number of nurses that fill alarm checklists and reasons as to why the nurses do not fill alarm checklists. Nursing interventions or actions in the management of clinical alarms are also variables that give insight into the findings in this manuscript. The interventions include; ensuring proper skin preparation before placement of electrodes, daily change of electrodes, assessing the cause of the alarm beep, disabling alarms every time they beep, pausing alarms every time they beep, re-setting alarm limits every time they beep, ignoring alarms every time they beep, checking and assessing the patientâ s condition every time the alarm beeps and re-setting of alarms each time a patient is admitted. (XLSX 29 kb)