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calls, the charge nurse or delegate will go on the call B. Rapid Response Team Nurse Practitioners / Clinical Associates are responsible for: 1. Responding to Rapid Response Team calls while on duty. 2. Ensuring that nursing unit staff/charge RN have contacted the attending physician. 3. Assessing the patient, ordering appropriate diagnostic tests, and initiating appropriate interventions as indicated, including procedures such as central line insertion, chest tube insertion, etc.. 4. Responding to pages from RNs, RTs at patient’s bedside for further diagnostic interventions, treatments and medications as required. 5. Communicating to the intensivist the results of assessment and interventions as well as discussing the proposed management plan. 6. Reassessing the patient, as required, for response to therapy. 7. Discussing with patients/families code status or end of life issues, when appropriate. NOTE: Nurse Practitioners cannot write DNR orders. 8. Collecting data forms related to each Rapid Response Team call. Rapid Response Team Activation Date Effective October 1, 2014 Policy No. II-7 Page 9 of 10 C. Rapid Response Team Intensivists are responsible for 1. Responding to pages from nurse practitioners, clinical associates, nurses, respiratory therapists and other team members in relation to provision of care for patients assessed by the Rapid Response Team. 2. Leading in directing the plan of care in terms of assessment, diagnostics, required interventions and patient disposition, including philosophy of care. 3. Discussing patient outcome or transfer of care with the attending physician. D. Rapid Response Team Respiratory Therapists are responsible for: 1. Performing patient assessment, diagnostic and therapeutic measures related to respiratory care. 2. Communicating the results as appropriate to the other members of the Rapid Response Team. 3. Providing ongoing assessment and appropriate therapeutic interventions to improve the pulmonary status of the patient (i.e. secretion management, titration of O2). 4. Providing blood gas sample procurement, analysis and interpretation, when clinically indicated and appropriate. 5.