Rapid Response team members from left to right; Katie Bealmer, BSN, RN; Garrett Ennenbach, PCT; Nick Weston, RN, House Supervisor
Situation Improvers Boone Hospital’s Rapid Response Team is there for nurses and patients.
“I’m used to staying calm and figuring out how to make a situation stable,” says Nick Weston, RN, one of Boone Hospital Center’s House Supervisors. Nick developed his skill for staying calm in tense situations while working as a patient care tech, then later as a nurse, in the hospital’s Emergency Department for over a decade. When he became a House Supervisor last year, Nick was able to use
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his experience to help other nurses in all units stay calm and stabilize patients. “That’s a big thing House Supervisors do – they’re situation improvers,” Nick explains. When a patient’s vital signs like pulse, blood pressure, respirations, or temperature change, the cause may not be obvious. The changes could potentially indicate a severe condition – a situation you don’t want to leave up
to chance. A nurse might see something isn’t right with a patient in their care, but needs assistance to assess the situation, whether it’s a second opinion, the ability to further examine a patient by ordering labs or imaging, or an immediate discussion with the patient’s physician. When a Boone Hospital nurse knows something isn’t right with a patient in their care, they can rely on the support