Making Rapid Response Real

Jason D. Park

doi:10.5771/9780761848882

Summary

Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) are a recent innovation in hospitals that makes critical care teams available to a nurse within seconds. When these teams function properly, studies have shown that they can reduce a hospital's mortality rate by almost forty percent. Yet, in spite of the possible benefits, doctors and nurses at hospitals that have committed to adopt RRTs can be reluctant to do so. Making Rapid Response Real discusses a study that identifies several reasons why people in organizations resist this kind of change, and offers recommendations for how leaders can fuel successful adoption of an innovative practice. Applying ideas from sociology and psychology to a management context, Jason D. Park offers research-driven insights for managers in a variety of implementation situations.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-4887-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-4888-2
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 99
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Figures No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgements No access
1. 1. Rapid Response Teams: An Innovation in Patient Care No access
2. The Study No access
1. Organizational Change No access
2. Organizational Learning No access
3. Summary No access
1. Research Sites No access
2. 1. Interviews No access
  2. Observation No access
  3. Archival Data No access
3. 1. Categorical Analysis No access
  2. Quantitative Content Analysis No access
  3. Comparison of Hospital Demographics and Change No access
  4. Categorical Analysis Revisited No access
  5. An Initial Model No access
1. 1. Observable Changes No access
  2. Intuition No access
  3. Assistance No access
  4. Political Leverage No access
2. 1. Faster Care: Expanding Recovery Windows No access
  2. Job Security No access
3. 1. Role Change: Individual Triage → Group Intervention No access
  2. Occupational Territory and Status No access
4. 1. Frontline Learning No access
  2. Administrative Learning No access
5. 1. Cultural Integration of RRTs No access
  2. Beyond the RRT No access
6. Summary No access
1. 1. Positive and Negative Reinforcement No access
  2. The Importance of Managing Perception No access
  3. Negative Reinforcement Revisited No access
2. Summary No access
1. 1. The Macro-Impact of an Individual No access
  2. RRT Activation Revisited No access
2. 1. Revisiting Instances No access
  2. Cultivating Positives No access
  3. De-Emphasizing Alternatives No access
  4. Creating Events No access
  5. Maintaining Focus No access
  6. Remaining Consistent No access
3. Summary No access
1. Review No access
2. Implications No access
3. Limitations No access
4. Next Steps No access
Final Thought No access Pages 81 - 82
Bibliography No access Pages 83 - 90
Index No access Pages 91 - 98
About the Author No access Pages 99 - 99