Rapid Response Registered Nurse (RN) - Rapid Response (Nights) (PRN)

Rapid Response Registered Nurse (RN)

The Rapid Response Registered Nurse (RN) is a highly skilled clinician responsible for responding to emergent clinical situations across the hospital. This role ensures rapid assessment, stabilization, and coordination of care for patients experiencing acute deterioration. The Rapid Response RN works closely with interdisciplinary teams to enhance patient safety, support clinical staff, and prevent avoidable escalation of illness.

Required Knowledge & Skills

Education: See License/Certification Requirements

Experience: Five years of related experience. Requires broad knowledge of complex systems and procedures.

Licenses and Certifications

*GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE

*HEALTHCARE PROVIDER (CPR)

*ACLS CERTIFICATION

Qualifications

*Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license.

*At least two (2) years of recent ER or ICU experience.

*Strong clinical judgment and ability to perform under pressure.

*Previous Rapid Response or Code Team experience preferred

*Additional specialty certifications such as PALS, TNCC, CCRN, or CEN required within 6 months.

*Experience with high-acuity patient management preferred.

Functions

Area of Responsibilities

*Respond immediately to Rapid Response, Code Blue, and other emergent calls hospital-wide.

*Conduct rapid, comprehensive assessments and initiate timely interventions to stabilize critical patients.

*Assist with advanced airway support, circulatory stabilization, emergency medication administration, and other procedures within RN scope.

*Collaborate with providers and bedside teams to guide emergent care planning.

*Serve as a clinical expert and resource for staff, offering real-time coaching and escalation support.

*Document assessments, interventions, and patient outcomes in EPIC according to facility policy.

*Participate and or lead post-event debriefings and quality improvement activities.

*Maintain readiness of all rapid response equipment and supplies.

*Daily follow-up on previous rapid responses and ICU downgraded patients.

*Other duties as assigned.

Compliance Statement

*Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.

Required Knowledge & Skills

Education: See License/Certification Requirements

Experience: Five years of related experience. Requires broad knowledge of complex systems and procedures.

Licenses and Certifications

*GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE

*HEALTHCARE PROVIDER (CPR)

*ACLS CERTIFICATION

Definitions

The Rapid Response Registered Nurse (RN) is a highly skilled clinician responsible for responding to emergent clinical situations across the hospital. This role ensures rapid assessment, stabilization, and coordination of care for patients experiencing acute deterioration. The Rapid Response RN works closely with interdisciplinary teams to enhance patient safety, support clinical staff, and prevent avoidable escalation of illness.

Position Responsibilities

Contact with Others: Frequent contacts of a significant nature involving difficult negotiations and technical matters requiring thorough knowledge of organization policies or treatment, plus an ability to understand, communicate with, and to lead, and influence others to obtain willing acceptance, consent, or action. Requires a high degree of diplomacy.

Effect of Error: Probable errors may be serious and involve losses such as improper costs, overpayment, waste of material, damage to equipment, and delay in processing work. Effect usually confined within the organization. Most of work not subject to direct verification or check. Regularly works with some confidential data such as account, salaries, patient medical records, which if disclosed might have adverse internal or external effects.

People Management Responsibilities

Supervisory Responsibility: Occasionally uses assistance of aide or helper in performance of task

Work Environment/Physical Effort

Mental Demands: Work involves a variety of complex problems to be solved under general organization policies. Ingenuity and judgment are required to review facts, plan work, estimate costs, and deal with factors not easily evaluated, interpret results, draw conclusions, and take or recommend action. Solutions to problems often require coordination with other departments.

Working Conditions: Considerable - (About 75% of the day) Involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk and probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.

Working Conditions Aspects for Immunizations

Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles): Yes

Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age: No

Physical Effort: Considerable physical effort - Lifts, carries, or handles medium weight equipment, materials, or supplies most of day. Occasional physical effort with heavy objects (over 60 lbs.). Works in reaching or strained positions frequently.

Physical Aspects

Bending: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Typing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Manual Dexterity -- picking, pinching with fingers etc.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Feeling (Touch) -- determining temperature, texture, by touching: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Hearing: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Reaching -- above shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Reaching -- below shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Visual: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Color Vision: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Speaking: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Standing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Balancing: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Walking: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Crawling: Not required

Running - in response to an emergency: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Lifting up to 25 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Lifting over 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Handling -- seizing, holding, grasping: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Carrying: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Climbing: Not required

Kneeling: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Squatting: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Tasting: Not required

Smelling: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Driving -- Utility vehicles such as golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift: Not required

Driving -- Class C vehicles: Not required

Driving -- CDL class vehicles: Not required

N95 Respirator usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Hazmat suit usage (PPE): Not required

Pushing/Pulling -- up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34