Report on Plan to Implement Evidence into Practice

Implementation of Rapid Response Team Plan
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Implementation of Rapid Response Team Plan
Mortality has risen due to the lack of the rapid response team in many of the health care centers. To cut down the high rate of immature deaths being observed within the health care center a rapid response team for each health care should be implemented. From the limited healthcare centers who have been able to implement the rapid response team, they have been able to observe the benefits associated with it. Scientific research shows that rapid response team has greatly changed those care centers. The findings show that with the rapid response team there has been a 50% reduction in the occurrence of cardiac arrests outside the ICU (Buist, 2002). There has also been 17% decrease in the cardiopulmonary arrests (DeVita, 2004). There has also been a decrease in the number of the patients who are admitted to the ICU by 44%, and the severe postoperative adverse events have reduced by 58%. The deaths which occur after operations has also gone down by 37%. This means that the days for the surgical patients to stay in the hospital have reduced from 23.8 days to 19.8 days (Bellomo, 2004). Moreover, there has been a decrease in the unnecessary transfers to the higher levels of care by an approximate of 30% (Goldhill, 1999). From the above statistics, it is clear that if we implement the rapid response team in our health care, then it is likely to be greatly effective for the society who depend on it. Then our main objective should be to reduce the level of deaths associated with the lack of rapid response team and improve the healthcare system in the health care centers. The target group for this change is the physicians, nurses, policy makers, therapists, clinical nurse specialists, allied health staff, medical facilitators such as the government representative.
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Take into consideration a situation where a patient has suffered from unpredicted cardiac arrest. All the medical practitioners are busy attending to the other patients such that if they have to come to the rescue of the patient, then it will take time before the rescue. Having in mind that cardiac arrest demands an instant attention, failure to do that the patient is at a very high risk of death. Studies from United States, Australia, United Kingdom and Canada indicate that 10% of the hospitalized patients die from preventable measures associated with the lack of the rapid response team. Another study in the above regions also stated that suboptimal care occurred in 54% of the hospitalized patients. Those patients require ICU care, but they are not given that care. Moreover, other patients who do not require the ICU care end up in the ICU yet they might not have needed that care if the rapid response team was there (Al-Qahtani & Al-Dorzi, 2010). It is clearly indicated that from the above practice the rapid response care team is likely to increase the safety of the patients as compared to its absence. As observed in the health care centers who have already adopted the rapid response team, the death has been reduced by twice of the previous years. It is no objection that if the rapid response system is introduced wit...