Lead change in "Team of Teams" environment to continually advance Patient Safety Program at U Health. Regularly conduct data analysis, diving deep to understand complexity and common threads/contributing factors. Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for complex serious safety, precursor, and risk-based events. Review and communicate patient safety events to organizational leadership. Facilitate, consult, and influence process improvement/problem solving projects to promote High Reliability, Psychological Safety and Human Factors Engineering. Deliver lectures on Patient Safety concepts and lessons learned to College of Medicine and Nursing.Accomplishments and specific skills: --Foster teamwork in Patient Safety department and U Health project teams --Developing content for comprehensive management of various clinical conditions --Contributed to Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) Grant for project Critical Test Results Management -Radiology Critical Imaging--Work with physician teams to develop consensus standard for large bore venous catheters --Development of a serious safety event rate and control chart to track SSE rate by patient days --Partnered with Human Resources to develop a “Just culture algorithm” pilot program --Researched, contributed to and operationalized a Professional conduct policy for Providers and Licensed Independent Practitioners-- Mentor multiple DNP, Masters and Bachelors Students

Program Manager for Product Standards and Evaluation. Perform clinical and financial business analysis including benchmarking of capital and commodity spend. Justified and oversaw evaluations of disposable commodity products and medical devices/technology. Incorporate evidence-based research, data, manufacturer information, ECRI, FDA, CDC, EPA, or other entity analysis to make recommendations to clinical operation directors. Implement key Quality/Patient Safety, Infection Control, and Supply Chain initiatives across the entire health care organization. Chaired decision-making committee for product standardization and new product introduction. Lead product/equipment conversions with vendors, Owens & Minor distributor, Materials Management and Omnicell inventory teams. Accomplishments: --Clinical Justification, project management, and conversion of 400 hospital beds to Hill Rom Progressa Beds. | May 2015 --Orchestrated complex system-wide cost/benefit analysis for new technology (Smith-Medical Infusion and PCA pumps, Covidien vs. Massimo pulse oximetry) saving organization over $100,000 per year in direct costs --ARHMM presentation | 2015 “Bridging the gap between Supply Chain and the Clinician”. Rocky Mountain Chapter--UHC Value Analysis Conference Presentation | 2014 “CLABSI and Alcohol Port Protectors in Burn ICU”--Product Development: New Product/Supply Introduction Form for internal and external (vendor) requests

Analyzed clinical software requirements for Cerner pharmacy, lab, orders, and documentation systems. Coordinated clinical pharmacy software requirements for electronic prescription writing and medication reconciliation to achieve successful measures for Meaningful Use. Made recommendations to Clinical IT Advisory Groups. Designed training materials. Built, implemented, tested, and maintained electronic medical record/software product functionality, applying an understanding of human computer interaction, adoption and relational databases. Provide tier 1 after-hours technical support for interfaces, servers, during planned and unplanned downtimes. Accomplishments and specific skills--Proposed project and secured funding UUHC; Barcode Medication Administration | January 2011--CERNER PowerChart build, test and production environments

Worked with Pediatric stakeholders and legacy system (HELP) software development team to write use cases applying principles of Agile Methodology. Piloted and implemented Electronic Medical (Health) Record (EMR/EHR). Worked with varied teams involved in product management at Intermountain to advance adoption of clinical information software across the Enterprise. Accomplishments and specific skills:--Led pilot & implementation of nurse charting to meet Hospital Board goal, Primary Children’s Hospital | 2006--Utah HIMSS Presentation | 2010 Development and implementation of pediatric documentation in legacy "Tandem/HELP" clinical information system” --ISMP Cheers Medication Safety Award for double blind medication verification in barcoding medication administration

Worked to provide bedside patient care throughout all hospital departments for sick kids and their families; filled staff nurse need based on fluctuating patient acuity/hospital census. Led department projects and quality improvement efforts for new nurse onboarding and clinical skills training..

As a new Registered Nurse, I learned to recognize and detect arrhythmias and provide post operative care for Adult Cardio-Thoracic Patients.

Acted as 'over the shoulder' trainer with Clinicomp staff supporting active duty military clinicians use of a new EMR at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany. Integrated, identified and prioritized system related issues critical to medical decision making.

Evaluated scope, priority and education plans for implementation of requirements Cerner PowerchartTM; worked with clinical coordinators within University and Huntsman Hospitals to prepare for go lives, evaluate implementations and coordinate ongoing education to users.

Provided hearing and vision screenings for school age children.