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An Evidence-Based Educational Intervention For Staff Nurses And The Rapid Response Team, Grace Katherine Gembrowski

Doctoral Dissertations

Rapid response systems (RRSs) have been proven to decease mortality, cardiac arrests, and ICU admissions. The three major health care system issues lead to failure to rescue: failure to communicate, failure to plan, and failure to recognize deteriorating conditions. It is crucial in a hospital setting that nurses have a basic knowledge base of why, when, and how the RRS should be activated as they are the first line of defense to recognizing signs of deterioration in patients. Previous research has shown that, although signs of patient deterioration are seen by staff, they are not always acted upon (Pusateri et …