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ELISABETH HARRISON

ELISABETH HARRISON

Critical Care Nurse
CARMICHAEL

Summary

Dedicated registered nurse with 20 years of experience seeking a position to utilize specialized nursing, administrative and management skills. Delivers compassionate, high-quality, detail-oriented, goal- focused, and patient-centered nursing care to all patients.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
6034
6034
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Critical Care Nurse

Trauma ICU, Mercy San Juan Medical Center
05.2016 - Current
  • Caring for patients in car crashes, falls, and violent acts such as shootings and stabbings
  • Providing triage, diagnosis, and care for patients with critical injuries and illnesses
  • Preparing patients for surgical procedures and assisting in emergency surgical procedures, also assist with Intubation and
  • CPR
  • Serving as liaison between physicians and families and, when needed, law enforcement
  • Handling emergencies and being comfortable with high‑ stress situation
  • Caring for patients on CRRT
  • I work very closely with Trauma critical care/acute care surgeons, Neurosurgeons, Neuro Critical Care
  • Physicians, Orthopedic surgeons and Specialized trauma case managers and social workers
  • Being an ICU nurse, I was also faced with the challenge of working with Covid patients with my team
  • We floated often to the Covid
  • ICU

Critical Care Nurse

CVICU, Mercy General Hospital
05.2015 - 05.2016
  • Caring for patients that have undergone CABG's, AVR/MVR/TVR surgeries
  • TAVR's, STEMI patients, Intubated patients
  • Proficient in Aortic balloon pumps, ECMO's, CRRT, vasoactive titration, neuromuscular blockade, TTM
  • Impella and sheath management.

Rapid response nurse

Mercy San Juan Medical Center
05.2016 - Current
  • Main goal is to prevent deaths and arrest hemodynamic decline in patients outside the ICU
  • I assess and use my clinical skills in implementing early interventions to prevent cardiopulmonary arrest, medical emergencies such as breathing difficulties, and prevent patients from declining in their severe
  • ETOH withdrawal.

Critical Care Nurse, CVICU

Karolinska Univerity Hospital
09.2012 - 06.2014
  • Responsible for respiratory therapy, dialysis and undergone training to care for patients in ECMO´s
  • Specialized patient care, Draw and interpret blood gases, labs, give medicine
  • The main disease groups are coronary artery disease (coronary bypass surgery), valve insufficiencies (valve prosthesis or valve repair), heart failure, LVAD´s, heart attacks ‑ ECMO treatment, arrhythmias, aortic aneurysms and respiratory diseases (especially operations for lung cancer)
  • Mentoring ICU nurse students

Registered Nurse

Danderyds University Hospital
05.2008 - 06.2012
  • Caring for patients with conditions such as heart failure, angina pectoris, myocardial infarctions and respiratory distress/failure
  • Also caring for elective and acute coronary artery angiography/PCI‑patients
  • Interpretation of angiograms, telemetric monitoring and ECG:s
  • Caring also for patients with Intra‑aortic balloon pumps, artery sets and VPAP/CPAP
  • Delegation to put on a femstop on patients and drawing blood gases
  • Running on codes on all units in the hospital
  • Mentor nursing students.

Registered nurse

Danderyds Univeristy Hospital
09.2007 - 05.2008
  • Caring for patients with conditions such as Congestive heart failure, angina pectoris, myocardial infarctions, and arrythmias
  • Interpretation of angiograms, Echo's, telemetric monitoring/MIDA and ECG:s.

Registered nurse

Danderyds University Hospital
05.2007 - 06.2007
  • Caring for patients undergoing elective or emergency operations for orthopedic conditions such as joint replacements and various fractures
  • Mentor nursing students.

Registered nurse

Pediatric, Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital
09.2007 - 05.2008
  • Caring for children between the ages 0‑18, with conditions such as RSV, pneumonia, cancer, burn wounds, fractures, appendicitis, gastric conditions and heart problems
  • Mentor nursing students

Registered Nurse

Danderyd University Hospital
06.2006 - 05.2007

Department of Orthopedics.

Caring for patients undergoing elective or emergency’s operations for orthopedic conditions such as joint replacement and various fractures.

Mentor nursing students.

Education

Postgraduate - Nursing

Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden

Bachelor's Degree - Nursing

Örebro University
Stockholm, Sweden
06.2006

Specialist Nurse in Intensive Care -

Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
06.2012

Skills

Trauma

Cardiovascular

ACLS

BLS

PALS

TCAR

Cerner

Accomplishments

  • Certifications:
  • BLS, ACLS, PALS and TCAR
  • CRRT
  • ECMO

Timeline

Critical Care Nurse

Trauma ICU, Mercy San Juan Medical Center
05.2016 - Current

Rapid response nurse

Mercy San Juan Medical Center
05.2016 - Current

Critical Care Nurse

CVICU, Mercy General Hospital
05.2015 - 05.2016

Critical Care Nurse, CVICU

Karolinska Univerity Hospital
09.2012 - 06.2014

Registered Nurse

Danderyds University Hospital
05.2008 - 06.2012

Registered nurse

Pediatric, Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital
09.2007 - 05.2008

Registered nurse

Danderyds Univeristy Hospital
09.2007 - 05.2008

Registered nurse

Danderyds University Hospital
05.2007 - 06.2007

Registered Nurse

Danderyd University Hospital
06.2006 - 05.2007

Postgraduate - Nursing

Karolinska Institute

Bachelor's Degree - Nursing

Örebro University

Specialist Nurse in Intensive Care -

Karolinska Institute
ELISABETH HARRISONCritical Care Nurse