title: The role of the rapid response nurse: hospitalwide and in trauma resuscitations.
abstract: Trauma resuscitation requires a skilled trauma team with the appropriate team members. Involving a rapid response nurse to this team can help with trauma interventions and ensure the continued care of Emergency Department patients. Possessing critical care skills and critical thinking, the response nurse is beneficial to the trauma resuscitation, as well as the hospital as a whole.
authors.affiliation: St. Vincent Healthcare, Billings, MT 59104, USA. Tracey.sinclair@svh-mt.org
authors.forename: Tracey D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Sinclair
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004630:Emergencies / Q000451:nursing; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000628:therapy*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009820:Ohio; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000451:nursing*; D014193:Trauma Centers; D014194:Traumatology