To provide surge nursing staff for an Emergency Department or specialty area [ICU, burn unit, etc.] nursing staff, to a disaster inundated or impacted.
A strike team is composed of [5] registered nurses able to augment a requesting facility’s staffing with credentialed nursing staff. [Requested RNST will adhere to requesting facility’s disaster credentialing processes & policies]
Over 175 Hospitals & Healthcare Systems provide the deployable team members who are actively practicing clinicians.
RNSTs are rostered in all [8] TX EMTF Regions.
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A strike team is staffed with 5 registered nurses of the same specialty with one team member designated as the Strike Team Leader.
RNSTs are comprised of team members that are actively practicing in the team’s designated clinical setting.
