Rapid Response Nurse (PRN: Various Shift)
Wellstar Health System
Summary
The Rapid Response Team (RRT) Nurse is a registered professional nurse who functions under the direction of the Nurse Manager and is responsible for coordination of Rapid Response Team assessment of patient, prioritization and implementation of interventions to ensure optimal patient outcomes, documentation of interventions and outcomes, communication with other team members and disciplines, and safe delivery of age appropriate and culturally aware patient care.
Job description
Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions
Patient Care
- Responds to RRT calls.
- Coordinates patient care during events including assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of outcomes
- Communicates with medical staff, nursing staff, other disciplines and departments as required to ensure optimal patient outcomes
- Intervenes in patient crisis to promote quality patient care
- Documents assessment, interventions, and outcomes in patient medical record; utilizes SBAR documentation
- Develops and implements clinical practice guidelines for RRT.
- Monitors patient outcomes and conducts follow-up as required
- Assesses patient and family or support system needs
- Educates patient, families or support system as required and documents
- Educates staff pertaining to RRT.
Data Monitoring
- Collects, monitors, and trends RRT data
- Analyzes data to determine opportunities for improvement; reports findings to medical staff and nursing leadership as requested
- Recommends improvements required to promote optimal patient outcomes to medical staff and nursing leadership
- Initiates and implements improvements related to RRT based on data trends
- Analyzes patient code data to identify trends and makes recommendations for improvements based on data
- Monitors 'near miss' events to identify and initiate prevention measures to promote quality patient care
Professional Practice
- Serves as professional role model within professional nursing utilizing professional clinical judgment
- Serves as a mentor in the development of peers and clinical staff
- Liaison between medical staff and patients and families
- Creates and maintains supportive work environment conducive to quality patient care including taking corrective action when needed
- Supports fiscal accountability for human and material resources
- Collaborates with Nurse Manager to recruit and retain staff
- Supports performance improvement initiatives designed to promote quality patient care
- Promotes professional nursing practice through shared governance, evidence-based practice and ethical accountability
- Maintains confidentiality
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited/approved school of nursing
- Current licensure as a professional registered nurse in the State of Georgia
- BLS certification
- ACLS certification
- NIH Stroke Scale certification
- Minimum 2 years of nursing practice in a critical care environment
- Ability to read, write and speak the English language
- Strong customer service and interpersonal skills
- Inter- and intra-departmental coordination of patient care activities
- Delegation skills
- Ability to multi-task
- Ability to function in stressful and emergency situations
- Strong detail orientation
- Computer skills
- Personal time management skills
- Compliance with the American Nurses' Association Code of Ethics for Professional Nurses
Benefits
- Sign on bonus
Company overview
Wellstar Health System is one of Georgia's largest and most comprehensive integrated healthcare systems, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. As a non-profit health system, Wellstar operates with a mission to enhance the health and well-being of every person it serves through its PeopleCare approach. The system employs approximately 29,469 to 33,000 team members across multiple hospitals, health parks, medical offices, outpatient centers, pediatric centers, nursing facilities, and hospice and home care services. Wellstar is nationally recognized for operating Georgia's largest integrated trauma network and features the second-largest Emergency Department in the United States. The organization provides more than $1 billion annually in charity care and community programs, demonstrating its commitment to community health. Wellstar has earned numerous accolades including recognition on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, Best Workplaces in Health Care, and PEOPLE Companies that Care lists. The system embraces innovation through its venture firm Catalyst by Wellstar, which nurtures early-stage healthcare companies, and maintains academic partnerships with institutions like the Medical College of Georgia for caregiver training. With specialties spanning cardiovascular care, oncology, women's health, pediatrics, musculoskeletal services, and numerous other medical disciplines, Wellstar delivers comprehensive healthcare across all stages of life.