Registered Nurse (RN) Consultant, Rapid Response, FT, Nights

Rapid Response Team Registered Nurse

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

Brings expert knowledge, clinical skills and leadership to the care of patients across the continuum with identified early warning signs of deterioration and or changes in their condition. The RRT RN collaborates with other members of the Rapid Response Team in assessment, management/stabilization and transfer of patient to appropriate level of care as needed.

Essential Functions

• All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's values: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
• Responds to all Adult RRT events. Collaborates with other team members in the assessment, management, treatment and transfer of patients as applicable, promoting effective team interaction and communication.
• Identifies evolving high risk patient populations and directs care per established protocols to ensure timeliness of core measures interventions for inpatient STEMI, Stroke and/or Sepsis.
• Screens patients identified as high-risk utilizing scoring methodologies and intervenes per established protocols.
• Completes follow up assessment of patients post RRT event who remain on non-critical care units.
• Documents RRT events, reports and follows up on identified issues. Provides feedback to staff in areas where the RRT event occurred.
• Enters RRT data into database; participates in data analysis and quality improvement initiatives.
• Stays up to date with RRT policy/ procedure; attends required RRT updates/education.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory/Management Responsibility

• This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.

Minimum Requirements

• Education - Associate degree in Nursing. Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred.
• Experience - Three (3) years of Intensive Care Unit Nursing experience. Charge nurse/code responder experience preferred.

Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses

• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in South Carolina.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to function as Code Stat Responder
• Ability to perform and communicate successfully during stressful healthcare events
• Proficient with EMR documentation

Work Shift

Night (United States of America)

Location

Baptist

Facility

1520 Baptist Hospital

Department

15206554 Rapid Response Team