Kyle Faris

Board-certified Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNPC-AG) with 10 years of high-acuity ICU experience across cardiac, medical, and surgical critical care. Expert in hemodynamic management, advanced life support, and mechanical circulatory support, currently completing a post-graduate critical care fellowship. Calm and decisive in emergent situations, and has a record for delivering evidence-based, patient-centered care through close multidisciplinary collaboration.

APRN – Adult Critical Care Fellow at OSF HealthCare

St. Francis Medical Center (10/2025– Present)

Completing a structured post-graduate fellowship in adult critical care, rotating across Neurocritical Care, Cardiac Intensive Care, and Cardiovascular Surgery services.

• Rounds independently and collaboratively to manage complex, critically ill adults under the mentorship of attending intensivists and subspecialty physicians, building advanced practice competency in neurological, cardiac, and perioperative critical care.
• Evaluates new consults, qualifying the need for ICU care while triaging high-priority pathologies first.
• Directs advanced care modalities including mechanical ventilation, CRRT initiation, and vasoactive infusion management.
• Collaborates with intensivists, surgeons, and the multidisciplinary team to develop, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care plans, while able to navigate complex conversations with patients and families.

Registered Nurse, Medical & Surgical ICU

Swedish Medical Center, First Hill (11/2018 - 10/2025)

Relief Charge / STAT RN / Preceptor

• Served as Relief Charge Nurse and Relief STAT RN, coordinating unit operations and responding to hospital-wide rapid response (RRT) calls and code blues with immediate advanced resuscitative support.
• Managed hemodynamically unstable patients across MICU and SICU settings, including post-op liver transplant, ENT/maxillofacial, and multi-organ failure populations.
• As part of a unit quality team, audited staff compliance with documentation, orders, and policy standards, identified practice gaps, and led targeted education that closed knowledge gaps and measurably raised clinical compliance and standards of care.
• Mentored new graduate nurses and nurse residents as primary preceptor, ensuring competency in high-acuity skills including CRRT and post-surgical care.

Registered Nurse, Cardiac ICU

Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City (1/2017 – 11/2018)

STEMI RN

• Served as designated STEMI RN managing patients with acute MI requiring emergent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
• Managed complex cardiac populations including heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism, ESRD, and pre/post cardiac transplant.
• Contributed to a shared-governance committee, conducting research and implementing evidence-based practice changes at the unit level.
• Recipient, DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing

MSN Boise State University (2024)

BSN St. Luke's College of Health Sciences

(Rockhurst University) (2016)