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Empowering nurses to activate the rapid response team.

Nursing, 2020
All clinical nurses need to be prepared to recognize deterioration in a patient's clinical status and activate the rapid response team when appropriate.
M. Granitto, Paula Linenfelser, Ryan Hursey, M. Parsons, Colleen K. Norton   +4 more
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Building a Rapid Response Team

AACN Advanced Critical Care, 2007
The use of rapid response teams is a relatively new approach for decreasing or eliminating codes in acute care hospitals. Based on the principles of a code team for cardiac and/or respiratory arrest in non—critical care units, the rapid response teams have specially trained nursing, respiratory, and medical personnel to respond to calls from general ...
Lisa, Halvorsen, Salomeja, Garolis, Allyson, Wallace-Scroggs, Judy, Stenstrom, Richard, Maunder   +4 more
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Dedicated, Proactive, Nurse Practitioner Rapid Response Team Eliminating Barriers

, 2020
Rapid response teams (RRT) have become an expected component in response to acute clinical deterioration of patients outside of the intensive care unit.
Erin Burrell, April N. Kapu, Elizabeth L. Huggins, Katie Cole, J. Fitzsimmons, Nina E Collins, L. Weavind   +6 more
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Revitalizing an Established Rapid Response Team

Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 2008
It is estimated that only 17% of patients survive an in-hospital cardiac arrest. Yet, more lives could be saved if the early signs of clinical deterioration were detected and promptly addressed on a consistent basis. Current evidence suggests that the creation and implementation of a rapid response team can have a positive effect on mortality and ...
Mary Ellen, Genardi, Sherill Nones, Cronin, LaDonna, Thomas   +2 more
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Rapid Response Team for Behavioral Emergencies

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 2010
Behaviors of patients with psychiatric illness who are hospitalized on nonbehavioral health units can be difficult to address by staff members. Instituting a rapid response team to proactively de-escalate potential volatile situations on nonpsychiatric units in a hospital allows earlier treatment of behavioral issues with these patients.
Jeannine, Loucks, Dana N, Rutledge, Beverly, Hatch, Victoria, Morrison   +3 more
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Medical Emergency and Rapid Response Teams

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2008
Hospitals that care for children are establishing medical emergency or rapid response teams as system solutions for preventing unexpected but foreseeable respiratory and cardiac arrest on inpatient units. Typically, an experienced team of doctors and nurses responds quickly to a direct request by any level of staff or even a parent for assistance with ...
James, Tibballs, Elise W, van der Jagt
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Reasons for Repeat Rapid Response Team Calls, and Associations with In-Hospital Mortality.

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2019
BACKGROUND Previous publications noted increased mortality risk in patients subject to repeat rapid response team (RRT) calls. These patients were examined as a homogenous group, but there may be many reasons for repeat calls.
R. Chalwin, L. Giles, A. Salter, Victoria Eaton, Karoline Kapitola, J. Karnon   +5 more
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Rapid Response Teams—Walk, Don't Run

JAMA, 2006
IN THE 6 YEARS SINCE THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE REleased its landmark report To Err Is Human, progress toward improving patient safety has been slow and arduous. Clinicians and researchers are struggling to advance thescienceofpatient safety,understand its epidemiology, clarify priorities, implement scientifically sound yet feasible interventions, and ...
Bradford D, Winters, Julius, Pham, Peter J, Pronovost   +2 more
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Rapid Response Team-Quality Champion Registered Nurse

Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 2019
Background: Operationalization of the rapid response team (RRT) and its quality champion (QC) nurses at a community hospital is unique and provides benefits not entirely captured by analysis of mortality data.
Margaret M. McNeill, Susan Archer, Dana Remsburg, Jill H. Storer, Heather Rudman   +4 more
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Rapid response team trigger modifications: are we using them safely?

Internal medicine journal (Print), 2019
Rapid response teams (RRT) were first proposed as a means of reducing inpatient morbidity and mortality. Modifying RRT activation triggers poses a potential risk for delayed recognition of a deteriorating patient.
Telena Kerkham, M. Brain
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