Let’s Talk to the Rapid Response Nurse!
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What is a Rapid Response Nurse and how does their team operate?
And so when I walk into every patient's room, it looks like I'm being so friendly and so compassionate as I approach the patient and say, Hi there, I'm Sarah, I'm the rap response nurse. And I put my hand on their wrist like a compassionate nurse that I am. But secretly, I am feeling their skin. How warm is it? I am touching their pulse. How strong is it? Is it thready? Is it fast? Is it slow? So much data I'm gathering about the heart rate, the blood pressure. Pressure, the perfusion of the skin.
Good morning, Atham. And good morning, Sarah.
Good morning. Hello. Today we have an awesome episode planned. I'm so excited. We have a guest, Sarah Lorenzini from the Rapid Response RN podcast. If you are an acute care nurse or ER nurse or a nurse who loves to talk about nursing, you have to listen to this podcast. It was recently turned on to me from our ICU outreach nurse and ever since I just absorb episodes day after day and learn so much and her guests are incredible. So we're overjoyed to have her with us today. So welcome Sarah if you could chat with us about what Rapid Response Nurse is and we'll get into
Thanks for having me. So every hospital has to have some system in place to respond to emergencies that happen outside of the emergency room. Um It is called lots of different things. I think the most common is rapid response team, but I've heard STAT team, pit crew, critical care outreach team, like so there's so many acronyms. Medical emergency response team. There's so many things. The point is I am the nurse that has experience with critical care crashing patients, and I respond to the med search floor, the PCU, labor delivery, the front lobby, the gift shop, all those places. there's an emergency because we don't call do you guys call nine one one in Canada? What do you call it in Canada? You don't call the paramedics.
When you're in the hospital, you call the rep response team. So I am that person that shows up.
So is this like a Rest a code blue, someone's like in that level of distress or like a few steps before that?
I love that you asked that question because I think a lot of hospitals it is just purely a response team. They're just responding to the code blue, the crashing blood pressure, the stroke, the heart attack, the sepsis alert. But at my hospital we have a dedicated team that all we do all day long is both respond to and prevent emergencies. So we love those calls when the nurse is like My patients' thoughtal signs are actually okay, but something's up. Well, you come look at 'em. Like my intuition says something's wrong. I like to prevent emergencies, prevent rep response calls from ever even happening. We love those two. So I I think because we're a dedicated team, I don't have a a team of patients that I'm responsible for that I have to leave to go to these emergencies.
All I do all day long is just respond and hopefully prevent as well. We actually get just as many what we call nurse concepts. So just as many emergencies as we do preventative interventions. I love them both.
And it's
that is exactly what I'm hoping we can kind of chat about today is that kind of pre preventative call on a med surge unit or wherever where You're a nurse, you get report, you go in and see your patient, and you're like I'm this something's not too good. And like you said, maybe it's not the vital signs and maybe the patient's meditating okay, but based on where this patient should be at in their healing or in their medical stay, it looks like we're moving in the wrong direction. Um and I know as a med search nurse for five plus years, I would oftentimes feel like I was just sort of stuck between a lot of people telling me, no, no, I'm not gonna come. No I'm not familiar with this patient. Give me the
the Jews. Uh no, they're not sick enough for ICU. No, we're not gonna do CPR in this patient. And so I have this patient who looks not good, I'm concerned about, I'm pretty sure is moving in the wrong direction. And it's me and my med surge floor. So that is oftentimes when I would call my ICU outreach nurse is what I would call it on our hospital and say,
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is a Rapid Response Nurse and how does their team operate?
0:00–7:26
2
How do rapid response teams differ in name and scope across hospitals?
7:26–14:06
3
What quick bedside assessment steps does Sarah use to gauge patient stability?
14:06–20:40
4
How can nurses recognize early compensation signs before vital signs worsen?
20:40–26:12
5
What is the CUSS communication framework and how should nurses use it with doctors?
26:12–33:15
6
How should nurses navigate DNR, comfort‑care, and aggressive‑treatment decisions?
33:15–40:22
7
What practical tips can med‑surg nurses use before a rapid response call arrives?
40:22–46:12
8
What are the key takeaways and resources for nurses after this episode?
46:12–52:36