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indicated a general decrease in sensitivity over an 18-month period. Nursing students with previous healthcare experience also noted decreased sensitivity to bathroom call bells and fall and safety alarms. Conclusion: Alarm fatigue was recognized among the surveyed nursing students. Nurse educators also identified a performance-based strategy to increase student awareness of alarm fatigue and evidencebased strategies to minimize desensitization to alarms in both education and practice. CLINICAL ALARMS are crucial to patient care in hospital settings. Alarms alert healthcare professionals to potential patient-care issues using an undesirable noise for increased patient safety. The reactions to this noise can be equated to noise sensitivity. 1 Alarm fatigue can be defined as a desensitization to alarm noises due to a high volume of false or nuisance alarms. 2 It consists of two components: desensitization and alarm apathy, which may result from the overuse of alarm-based devices such as telemetry monitors. This article details a study on the impact of alarm fatigue on nursing students and discusses potential solutions to improve patient safety in clinical practice. BackgroundAlarm fatigue and alarm apathy may develop as healthcare professionals become overwhelmed by the number of alarm alerts, causing desensitization. 2 Alarm desensitization can lead to delays in the