Kathryn (Katie) Farrell, EdD, MSN, RN, is an assistant clinical professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions and the track director of the Quality, Safety, Risk Management MSN program. Farrell received a BSN from Georgetown University, MSN in Health Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and EdD in Educational Leadership and Management from Drexel University. Her clinical background includes hematology/oncology and the post anesthesia care unit. Farrell worked clinically at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City and at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. She has an extensive background working in quality, safety and performance improvement and is Six Sigma Green Belt certified. Prior to joining Drexel University, she worked as a professional practice consultant in the Penn Medicine Health System. In that role, she developed and led many quality improvement initiatives related to patient safety, patient satisfaction and staff engagement. She has published and presented at many national and local conferences on these topics.
Academic Distinctions
Farrell won the 2019 Pennsylvania Hospital Victoria Rich Transformational Leader Clinical Excellence Award and the 2017 Relationship-Based Care Award. She was also the 2019 Patient Safety Authority "I am Patient Safety" Award winner.
Professional Society
American Organization of Nurse Leaders
Medical Group Management Association
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
National League for Nursing
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Selected Publications
Farrell, K., & Murphy, J. (2024). Improving patient safety: Using Bruner's theory of constructivism to develop an innovative root cause analysis virtual simulation for graduate nursing students. Nursing education perspectives, 45(4), 252–253. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001139
Murphy, J., Farrell, K., Kealy, M.B., Kristiniak, S. (2023).Mindfulness as a self-care strategy for healthcare professionals to reduce stress and implicit bias. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice 30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2022.100598.
Fredericksdorf, C., & Farrell, K. (2016). “No interruption zone” in ambulatory
procedure unit to reduce medication distraction at the PYXIS. Journal of PeriAnesthesia
Nursing, 31(4), e30-e31. doi: 10.1016/j.jopan.2016.04.071.
Pearce, M., DelGuidice, M., Kinsey, A., Knight G., Cassidy, C., Farrell K., Hatfield, L. (2014). Color coding nurse uniforms. Nursing Management, 45(3), 14-20.
Reich, J., Farrell, K., Maloney, C., Drayton, D., & Johnson, T. (2017). Decreasing falls with injury rates: development of a support staff falls advocate program. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 32(2) p 40-46.
Doctoral Dissertation
Farrell, K. T. (2023). Exploring implicit bias in nurses: A phenomenological study (pp. vii, 127 pages) [Drexel University]. https://doi.org/10.17918/00001569
Research Interests
Implicit bias, patient experience, staff engagement, falls reduction
Specialization
Patient safety, performance improvement, nursing education, patient experience