PANEL DISCUSSION: MANPOWER, ADMINISTRATION, POLITICS, AND MONEY — QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

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1. Question: Does making a grant to a hospital implementing a RRT make good business sense for an insurer?

2. Question: How can financial and cultural barriers be overcome in a hospital that has separate medical and surgical critical care teams and does not have adequate nursing staff support?

3. Question: What are your comments on the utilization of advanced practice nurses in the area of diagnostics?

4. Question: How is the medical liability regarding ED physicians who respond to METS being handled?

5. Question: How does one document and bill for RRT services?

6. Question: How are the wide variety of staff members trained regarding activation of the METS?

7. Comment: Nurses can be trained to do diagnostics. The entire staff can be trained and mortality can decrease as a result.