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

Questions?