Jennifer Farrell

Experience

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  Zillow

  May 2006 - Sept 2009

  Release Program Manager

  -Lead long term projects to completion motivating teams and maintaining a high quality bar -Assessed and triaged issues as they arose weighing their severity, acuity, and resource availability-Coordinated across 6 teams bi-monthly updates to the live website that affected over 50 service areas-Designed and presented training documents for development process and maintained the wiki

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  University of Washington

  Sept 2009 - Jun 2011

  Nursing Student
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  Swedish

  Mar 2021 - now

  Worked on multiple units across Swedish including Medical-Surgical Telemetry 7SW at First Hill, Neuro-Telemetry 3E and Surgical Telemetry 4E both at Cherry Hill-Carry a 3-5 patient assignment with a mix of medical and surgical cardiac patients; work closely with Physicians, LIPs, PT, OT, RT, Speech Pathologist and NAC -Coordinate patient admissions and transfers from both in and outside the hospital system to the 36 bed unit as well as discharges to home, SNFs, and other facilities-Deep understanding of cardiac rhythms and interventions including medical, internal and external pacemakers, and cardioversion; as well as expertise with cardiac medications-Care for post surgical patients including OHS, stents, ablations, pacemakers, TAVR, Watchman, and Mitral Clip; operate external pacemakers, CTs, drains, Wound Vacs, FTs, NGTs, PD, and central linesLeadership-Chair of unit based shared leadership team where we develop projects focussed on improving patient satisfaction and health outcomes as well as staff satisfaction-Active participant in many campus wide teams working across multiple professions including Innovations and Care Delivery, CLABSI, Falls, Staffing, and Medication Safety-Precept Senior Practicum and New Resident Nurses using the Married State Model; Epic Super User and trainer for new staff and with major Epic upgrades-Developed protocols and collaborated with nurse educators to create instructional brochures; led a PDSA to validate the effectiveness of a cost saving product for daily use on the unit Show less -Oversaw 3 in-patient units Including Interventional Cardiac Unit, Surgical Telemetry and Short Stay Unit; total of 68 beds and over 100 staff including Charge Nurses, RNs, NACs, and MTs-Used Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint to create a collective, collaborative, and transparent repository for tracking important unit based projects-Balanced schedules to ensure adequate staffing and coverage; worked with Kronos for time management and documentation; reduced incremental overtime from 3.5% to 1.7% -Followed up on events reported through the eQVR system, sought methods for problem prevention; used collaborative approach when escalating issues to physicians and ancillary staff Show less

  • Swedish Comprehensive Afib Network (SCAN) Coordinator

    May 2022 - now

  • Registered Nurse and Clinical Supervisor

    Jul 2010 - now

  • Clinical Supervisor

    Mar 2021 - Apr 2022