Calls to outpatient areas such as radiology, rehabilitation and the hospital lobby are also increasing, with the addition of family members, visitors and employees , in addition to hospitalized patients, to the list of eligible Code Rescue calls that the ICU nurse must respond to. With code rescues resulting in a stroke alert, the ICU nurse must accompany the patient to the CT scanning area for a STAT CT of the brain, which takes the nurse away from assigned patients for a period of time even longer based on that patient's status. patient. When a nurse takes a break, another nurse is responsible for monitoring patients and taking care of their patient assignment. The attention given to other patients is not considered extensive, essentially “keeping an eye on them” until the nurse returns. This patient's assignment may be at risk for safety if his or her nurse is also the one assigned to respond to the code's emergency response at any time during the