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2nd Annual Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice
Symposium
Promoting Nursing’s Future: Building Bridges from Classrooms to Clinical Settings
Daniel Ampomah, RN, PhD, NE-BC
Phillip Eaton, RN, MSN, RRT Rodica Sandor-Scoma, RN, MSHA,
MD. Zewdensh Bryant, RN, BSN, MS.
The purpose of this study was to assess whether nurses valued the RRT service and to determine whether barriers to calling the RRT exist.
Do nurses understand the potential benefits of the rapid response team system?
Do nurses find the rapid response team service useful in managing sick patients?
Do obstacles exist that restrict nurses from using the rapid response team service?
Research design: Univariate descriptive
Population: RNs and LPNs working on nursing units and departments in Inova Mount Vernon Hospital
Sample: Convenience sample
Newly hired and
currently in
orientation
Employed andWorking as anRN or LPN atIMVH
Travelers, contract or agency per diem nurses working at IMVH
Nurses Attitudes to Medical Emergency Teams Survey (NAMETS) by Jones, et al. (2006).
Permission to use the NAMETS tool for this study was granted by Jones and Bellomo . For this study the tool was referred to as
Nurses Attitudes to Rapid Response Team Survey(NARRTS)
Demographic data sheet Reliability of NAMETS face validity Reliability of NARRTS α = .60
Paper survey Descriptive statistics employing
frequencies and percentages was used to answer the research questions.
A total of 140 of the surveys werereturned.
At the time of the survey 266 nurses were employed at the hospital
196 questionnaires were distributed to nurses on day, evening and night shifts74% of the accessible
target population were surveyed
Overall response rate was
71%a
b
c
d
e
Age of respondents
Gender Race/Ethnicity Employmentstatus
Yrs nursing
practice
Years worked at IMVH
Youngest respondent was
24 years old
Male
13 (9%)
African-American/Black
63 (46%)
Full time91 (66%)
1-5 yrs24%
1-5yrs85 (62%)
Oldest respondent was
65 years old
Female
126 (91%)
Asian/Pacific Islander18 (13%)
Part time21 (15%)
6-10yrs21%
6-10 yrs38 (28%)
Mean age of the sample was 43
yrs
Caucasian/White47 (34%)
PRN27 (19%)
11-15yrs16%
Over 10yrs14 (10%)
Hispanic/ Latino2 (1%)
16-20yrs18%
Other8 (6%)
21-30yrs15%
31-47 yrs7%
Sample Matrix
Level of education
Work shift Specialty of practice
Have you ever called the RRT to manage a patient in your
care?
Diploma
10 (7%)
Day shift
71 (52%)
Psychiatry
15 (11%)
Yes = 112 (84%)
Associate Degree
59 (42%)
Night shift
65 (47%)
Oncology
12 (9%)
No = 22 (16%)
Baccalaureate
Degree
62 (45%)
Orthopedics
17 (13%)
Masters in nursing
6 (4%)
Medical/surgical
31 (23%)
Other
7 (1%)
Telemetry
27 (20%)
Rehabilitation
32 (24%)
Sample Matrix
Thank You
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