No. A rapid response team is called when your patient is going down hill. It can be called for basically anything where your patient is becoming less stable. An ICU nurse, respiratory therapy, lab, x-ray all show up. A code is when the patient is having cardiac or respiratory failure. It includes everything from the rapid team but also a critical care doctor (who can write orders, which can be VERY important when things go south).

Huh. Every hospital I’ve been to uses these: https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/5o7hrs/i_posted_about_my_pt_pushing_the_code_blue_button/

If it makes you feel better, you didn’t call a code. That button actually is for a rapid response team. The blue button is for a code team.

Source: Am nurse.

Edit: at every hospital I’ve been to, it like like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/5o7hrs/i_posted_about_my_pt_pushing_the_code_blue_button/