Grace Harris
2520 Genoa Way, Apt 410 Birmingham
Summary
Registered nurse with two years and seven months of bedside experience in high acuity intensive care units managing hemodynamic instability, mechanical ventilation, and vasoactive drips. Proven ability to manage continuous renal replacement therapy, intra-aortic balloon pumps, impellas, and ventricular assistive devices. Experience in clinical decision-making, leadership, and preceptorship. Demonstrates success in delivering pristine care to multiple patients, balanced with high-volume task load.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Baptist Health Princeton Hospital Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Birmingham, AL
05.2026 - Current
- Manage critically ill cardiovascular requiring advanced mechanical circulatory and cardiac support, including ECMO (VA/VV), ventricular assist devices (VADs), intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP), temporary pacemakers, CRRT, Swan-Ganz catheters, and mechanical ventilation.
- Provide comprehensive care for immediate post-operative open heart surgery patients, including CABG, valve replacement, heart transplantation, and other complex cardiothoracic procedures.
- Continuously assess, interpret, and trend invasive hemodynamic data, cardiac rhythms, arterial and venous blood gases, and laboratory values to guide evidence-based interventions and optimize hemodynamic stability.
- Administer, titrate, and manage vasoactive infusions, sedation, paralytics, anticoagulants, and emergency medications to maintain cardiac output, tissue perfusion, and end-organ function.
- Adjust ventilator settings based on ABG/VBG analysis to optimize oxygenation, ventilation, and acid-base balance in critically ill patients.
- Rapidly identify and intervene in life-threatening complications including arrhythmias, cardiac tamponade, cardiogenic shock, respiratory failure, and device-related emergencies.
Registered Nurse
UAB Hospital Post Anesthesia Care Unit/Intensive Care Overflow Unit
Birmingham, AL
08.2024 - Current
- Provide immediate post-anesthesia care for patients recovering from general, regional, and local anesthesia through continuous assessment of airway patency, hemodynamic stability, and pain management.
- Manage high-acuity PACU and ICU overflow patients across medical, cardiac, surgical, and trauma critical care populations.
- Administer and titrate complex infusions including vasopressors, sedatives, thrombolytics, paralytics, ketamine, and other critical medications.
- Care for complex post-operative and critically ill patients requiring advanced therapies and specialized devices, including lumbar drains, EKOS, Belmont rapid infusers, epidural pumps, and advanced chest tube management systems.
- Serve in leadership roles as bedside nurse, relief charge nurse, and preceptor for new hires and nursing students.
- Collaborate closely with anesthesia providers, surgeons, intensivists, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe perioperative transitions and optimal patient outcomes.
Registered Nurse
UAB Hospital Heart & Lung Transplant Intensive Care Unit
Birmingham, AL
10.2023 - 08.2024
- Manage critically ill cardiothoracic and transplant patients requiring advanced life support, including mechanical ventilation, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP), ventricular assist devices (VADs), and Impella support.
- Interpret and trend invasive hemodynamic data obtained through Swan-Ganz catheters, arterial lines, and central venous pressure monitoring to guide clinical decision-making and optimize cardiac output, tissue perfusion, and overall cardiovascular stability.
- Analyze complex hemodynamic parameters, including PAOP, SvO2, cardiac output/index, systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance, and pulmonary artery pressures to guide evidence-based interventions in critically ill patients.
- Administer, titrate, and manage continuous infusions including vasopressors, anticoagulants, antihypertensives, inhaled epoprostenol, inotropes, sedation, and insulin drips.
- Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary healthcare teams, patients, and families to develop and implement comprehensive, patient-centered plans of care that optimize outcomes.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Auburn University College of Nursing
Auburn, AL08.2023
Skills
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Professionalism and integrity
- Medication administration
- Direct patient care
- Collaborative teamwork
Certification
AHA ACLS
AHA BLS
AHA PALS
NIH Stroke Scale
AWARDS & HONORS
Dean’s List Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society Spring 2023, “Nurse of Nurses” Award Fall 2023
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Baptist Health Princeton Hospital Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
05.2026 - Current
Registered Nurse
UAB Hospital Post Anesthesia Care Unit/Intensive Care Overflow Unit
08.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse
UAB Hospital Heart & Lung Transplant Intensive Care Unit
10.2023 - 08.2024
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Auburn University College of Nursing