Rapid Response Registered Nurse (RN) - Rapid Response (Days) (PRN)
Tanner Health System
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
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