Christopher Grimes BSN, RN, CRNI®

Christopher Grimes BSN, RN, CRNI®

Chris has been a nurse (RN, BSN) for over 6 years, which began in the PICU/CICU at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his CCRN certification after 2 years; and served as an innovative leader for both the unit-based and hospital-based Leadership committee, as well as the NDNQI Data Collection and Performance Improvement committees. Upon increasing patient safety, data collection efficiencies, and implementing a new treatment system, he then transitioned into a PICU/CICU/NICU travel nurse assignment with Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. He switched paths taking on a travel nurse role for infusion therapy at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH) infusion clinic. He loves the opportunity it presented, he signed on full-time with aspirations to grow impacts to the patient population, nursing staff, and overall delivery of care for the infusion clinic, all while obtaining CRNI certification. Outside of work, Chris serves as President on the board of the INS local Northern Virginia chapter. In his free time, he enjoys spending it with family and friends, the beach, and traveling.

Chris recently grew into a newly created Nurse Coordinator position at the MGUH infusion clinic, to lead his team of nurses in providing the highest quality care possible. He coordinates educational in-service sessions with healthcare specialists and pharmaceutical representatives for his nursing staff, to ensure staff have recent, relevant, and important information in providing patient care. He worked with the IT team to switch handwritten questionnaires to an iPad application which is auto populated to patients’ EMR. He is currently working with a multidisciplinary team to introduce medication scanning to bring even higher quality and efficiencies in patient safety and care delivery.

Chris is abundantly thankful for all the love and support provided by his partner, family, friends, colleagues, and patients who have helped sculpt him into the nurse he is today. Chris is excited for what the future holds: growth, opportunity, and fulfillment with deep passion for a career of serving those in need.