May 2026 Honoree
Adult Rapid Response Team
Anderson, Brittany • Anderson, Christie • Ashley, Jennifer • Bahnweg, Samantha • Bartley, Amber • Bell, Rebecca • Boynton, Adam • Bray, Mara • Edinger, Abbey • Elenbaas, Alexander • Fohlbrook, Courtney • Hagerman, Kyle • Haywood, Reynita • Heyd, Charles • Hernandez-Silva, Juan • Jones, Matthew • Kennedy, Amelia • Knight, Lord Jetanie (LJ) • Knitter, Sydney • Kupke, Paul • Lee, Anthony • LePage, Brandy • Lyons, Jakob • Moran, Tiffany • Muniga, Anna • Neill, Jordon • Olson, Justin • Pfeil, Della • Pohl, Marybeth • Ramey, Macie • Raterink, Ryann • Sanders, Scott • Santamaria, Jamelynne • Steikar, Jakob • Thelen, Elizabeth • Vandenberg, Luke • Voorhees, Stacey • Wieber, Ryan
The Adult Rapid Response Team is a unique team of bedside critical care nurses and critical care APPs along with respiratory therapists, 12-lead ECG technicians, and phlebotomists. This interdisciplinary team then work together to help patients who are encountering failing health and emergencies outside of critical care environments.
The RRT nurses and APRNs assess and intervene on patients who have high early warning scores, stroke alerts, sepsis alerts, who have been transferred out of critical care in the last 24 hours, and anyone whom a nurse, provider, or family members wants them to see.
Then, in the summer of 2024 the night shift critical care resource nurse was added to this team, which is an additional nurse who helps nurses outside of critical care environments with IV starts, sterile dressing changes, complex medication administrations, small bore feeding tube insertions, transporting of patients to tests/procedures, chest tube troubleshooting, and other nursing interventions that may not be as uncommon in non-critical care areas. They also get lots of policy, protocol, and equipment troubleshooting questions as they round unit to unit.
Rapid Response Teams are shown in the evidence to improve patient outcomes for hospitals and UMH-Sparrow Lansing's RRT team is a prime example of evidence-based practice in action.
The RRT nurses and APRNs assess and intervene on patients who have high early warning scores, stroke alerts, sepsis alerts, who have been transferred out of critical care in the last 24 hours, and anyone whom a nurse, provider, or family members wants them to see.
Then, in the summer of 2024 the night shift critical care resource nurse was added to this team, which is an additional nurse who helps nurses outside of critical care environments with IV starts, sterile dressing changes, complex medication administrations, small bore feeding tube insertions, transporting of patients to tests/procedures, chest tube troubleshooting, and other nursing interventions that may not be as uncommon in non-critical care areas. They also get lots of policy, protocol, and equipment troubleshooting questions as they round unit to unit.
Rapid Response Teams are shown in the evidence to improve patient outcomes for hospitals and UMH-Sparrow Lansing's RRT team is a prime example of evidence-based practice in action.
Thank you for your exceptional compassion, advocacy, and dedication to your patients. You truly make a difference.
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