In your opinion, as a NM, how to present an idea to management...

Thanks. Do you see how it could be beneficial, or no?

I'm definitely going to suggest an existing member of the staff fills this roll. I believe the staff might feel as though their base rate of pay is warranted for the added responsibility because a lot of us which that we had a more important role in a pt's care and could provide more interventions than we already do. I work in a facility with 180 beds, not including our ER. I don't see the need for delegating the role of RRT to a CNA who only answers the calls and does nothing else. We don't have enough RRT pages for that anyway.

I was going to suggest a small inservice that all the CNAs must attend that goes over the role of the rapid response team, and specifically, the CNA's role. Maybe some addition training in BCLS...as most CNAs I know aren't like me and won't just be totally at ease to jump into a code and do compressions.

I'd want to also suggest that the RRT pager is assigned to unit that is properly staffed as far as CNA's. At night, we often have one on my unit and we are supposed to have two aides. Last week, when the RRT was paged for a patient and I got told to go help them out, I was the only aide working the floor and all of my patient's went without care for an hour and a half. This creates problems.

Right, and if they trained all of the CNAs to be on the Rapid Response Team, then they would have more people to choose from when they assign the pager.