Question: You are working on a telemetry unit. It is a particularly busy shift. You just discharged a patient and have already been assigned a new admission. While setting up the new patient's telemetry monitor, you notice that the alarm was going off for another one of your patients (Patient A). Already running behind, you decided to silence the alarm after making a mental note to check on that patient after settling your new patient. Unfortunately, Patient A went into cardiac arrest, and a code blue had to be called. The most effective intervention is to eliminate the opportunity for error; the best example of this is... The nurse silences the alarm outside the patient's room. The nurse goes into the patient's room to silence the alarm and acknowledges a pop-up screen asking if they intended to silence the alarm. The nurse manager addresses the heavy workload and alarm fatigue for the nurses on the unit.