Parkland Health, Texas
Cara Teece Pulliam, BSN, RN, CCRN, is a Rapid Assessment Team Nurse at Parkland Health in Dallas, Texas, with extensive experience in adult critical care and rapid response, as well as pediatric trauma ICU care. She is passionate about improving early recognition and intervention for deteriorating patients, strengthening rapid response processes, and fostering collaboration between ICU and bedside teams.
Before joining Parkland, Cara worked for several years at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she chaired the Code Blue Committee and led the Code Blue Leader Revitalization Project. This initiative was presented as a poster entitled “Revitalizing the Code Blue Leader Identification Structure in Cardiopulmonary Arrest Events” at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) National Teaching Institute in 2023. Cara was also a partner on the RRT-STARS Project and assisted in presenting the poster “Saving Time to Save Brain: Rapid Response Teams Shorten Time to Imaging for Inpatient Strokes” at NTI 2024. The project went on to be presented as a poster entitled “When Minutes Count: Utilizing the Rapid Response Team to Decrease Time to Treatment for Inpatient Stroke” at the 2024 AANN Stroke Conference and as a podium presentation, “RRT-STARS: A Rapid Response-driven Code Stroke Process,” at the 2024 ANCC Magnet Conference.
Cara is a certified critical care nurse and an active member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and its Dallas County Chapter.
A Call in Time Saves Nine: Impact of Automating Rapid Assessment Team Notification on ICU Transfers
Sunday, March 22, 2026
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Central Time
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
