Alarm Fatigue is a Sentinel Event It is difficult to leave a loved one in a hospital bed when night falls. Family members leave with a sense of responsibility, guilt and sadness. They leave trusting in the nurse who watches over and takes care of their sick family member. Therefore, it is heartbreaking to discover the next morning that your loved one has suffered severe brain damage because nurses did not control the alarm sounds. Now, the family is put on site to continue life support or disconnect their family member. One can only imagine what went wrong; up until the moment you left the hospital, your loved one was fine. You rely on caregivers to care for your loved one, just as you would, while you are away. The staff made a mistake by ignoring the alarm sounds, alerting them that the patient was getting worse and costing the patient's family a lot of pain. Jenifer Garcia's life was shattered when this exact event happened to her husband in July 2010 (Kowalczyk, 2011). She left her husband Friday night, alive, and returned the next morning to find he was brain dead. Technological advances are being used to reduce and detect medical errors made by healthcare workers that can harm or kill patients, but alarm fatigue has shown that even technology cannot completely protect a patient from nursing errors, thus taking the lives of patients.Sentinel EventA sentinel event is an unexpected incident that results in death, physical harm, or psychological harm to a patient unrelated to the patient's illness (The Joint Comission, 2011). Sentinel events include, but are not limited to, surgery on the wrong patient or body part, rape, suicide, instruments left inside the patient, and/or medication errors. All the sentinel, even... middle of paper... decrease as time goes by, because the money used for the studio, the new monitors will no longer be included. Ultimately, the budget will be paid off in time thanks to the decrease in sentinel events and the change in time shifts. Conclusion Unfortunately, it is too late for the Garcia family. Their tragedy should not be in vain and the healthcare sector should learn from the mistakes mentioned above. Patients put themselves in our hands for treatment; they should not die from alarm fatigue. By conducting an RCA and finding solutions supported by evidence-based practice, you can ensure patient safety and reduce alarm fatigue. There is no reason why a sentinel event should occur, due to alarm fatigue, as it is something that can be prevented. As healthcare physicians, it is our job to ensure patient safety and prevent the hospital's reputation from deteriorating.