AMANDA WEBBER
Eagle Mountain,UT
Summary
Transformative nursing leader with extensive pediatric experience in bedside care, charge nurse leadership, clinical coaching, and unit operations. Proven track record in mentoring new and student nurses, effectively guiding teams through high-acuity behavioral health crises while fostering safe, trauma-informed care for pediatric patients. Expertise includes de-escalation, code response, patient safety, and interdisciplinary collaboration, with a strong commitment to advancing nursing management and enhancing staff development. Focused on improving patient experiences through thorough team collaboration and communication, ensuring every caregiver and patient feels valued and heard.
Overview
2
2
Certifications
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
NURSE CLINICAL LEADER
Primary Children’s Hospital
02.2024 - Current
- Led frontline nursing for pediatric teams, overseeing unit operations, staffing, patient flow, caregiver communication, and ensuring safe care delivery.
- Partner with interdisciplinary leaders to address safety concerns, improve communication, reinforce standards of care, and support quality and process improvement initiatives.
- Supervise 38 registered nurses and 80 behavioral health specialists on a 36-bed pediatric inpatient behavioral health unit.
- Mentor caregivers, support professional growth, promote accountability, and help strengthen teamwork, engagement, and retention across nursing and support staff.
- Enhanced unit culture, caregiver recognition, and patient and family experience while ensuring operational follow-through aligned with nursing manager responsibilities.
- Provided care in inpatient psychiatry unit
CHARGE NURSE – INPATIENT PSYCHIATRY
Primary Children’s Hospital
Wasatch Canyons
06.2023 - Current
- Coordinated staffing, patient assignments, shift huddles, and real-time clinical decision-making to improve patient care outcomes in pediatric psychiatric units.
- Led real-time crisis response as charge nurse, including code situations, acute behavioral escalations, and high-risk suicidal crises requiring calm prioritization, staff direction, and close collaboration with providers and interdisciplinary teams.
- Acted as a trusted clinical resource for nurses, behavioral health specialists, patients, and families during urgent safety concerns, emotional distress, and complex care decisions.
- Ensured consistency in unit expectations, therapeutic engagement, and safety-focused care delivery across shifts to support optimal patient outcomes.
REGISTERED NURSE – INPATIENT PSYCHIATRY
Primary Children’s Hospital
Wasatch Canyons
12.2022 - Current
- Delivered psychiatric nursing care, including assessment, medication administration, and therapeutic engagement.
- Coached new nurses in pediatric behavioral health, enhancing their clinical skills. who oriented new nurses and student nurses to pediatric behavioral health nursing, unit expectations, therapeutic communication, documentation standards, patient safety practices, and trauma-informed care.
- Facilitated crisis stabilization and discharge preparation, enhancing recovery outcomes for patients and families.
- Coordinated interdisciplinary care to provide holistic support and improve patient well-being.
- Coordinated interdisciplinary care to support holistic patient well-being.
- Monitored patient progress toward recovery goals.
- Monitored patient progress toward recovery goals, ensuring alignment with individualized treatment plans.
- Provided mentorship to junior nurses in therapeutic engagement and patient safety. and behavioral health staff in therapeutic engagement, safe patient interactions, boundary setting, clinical judgment, and escalation pathways.
- Conducted feedback sessions to enhance team performance and address clinical issues. to improve team performance. to address performance issues with clinical personnel.
REGISTERED NURSE – CARDIAC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (CICU)
Primary Children’s Hospital
Wasatch Canyons
01.2022 - 12.2022
- Coordinated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement complex care plans for critically ill pediatric patients, facilitating safe transitions during rapid changes in patient condition.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement complex care plans for critically ill pediatric patients, ensuring safe transitions of care during rapid changes in patient condition.
- Strengthened clinical judgment, prioritization, and communication skills to navigate challenges in fast-paced pediatric critical care environment.
Education
Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) - Leadership Emphasis
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ07-2026
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) - Nursing Practice
Eagle Gate College
Murray, Utah12-2021
Skills
- Pediatric behavioral health assessment and prioritization
- Crisis intervention, de-escalation, and code response
- Crisis intervention
- High-acuity pediatric psychiatric care management
- Patient safety management
- Pediatric critical care experience with complex patient conditions
- Interdisciplinary care coordination with nursing, providers, therapy, and support teams
- Care coordination across nursing, provider, and therapy teams
- Daily clinical operations and real-time problem solving
- Daily unit operations, real-time troubleshooting, and clinical prioritization
- Patient flow management and bed-capacity awareness
- Unit leadership, staffing coordination, and patient flow
- Staff training
- Clear communication with staff, providers, patients, and families
- Trauma-informed therapeutic communication
- Quality improvement
- Patient and family education during crisis stabilization
- Staff training, orientation, and competency reinforcement
- Behavioral health specialist supervision and team support
- Staff coaching
- Staff mentorship, onboarding, and professional development
- Performance support through feedback, coaching, and expectation setting
- Charge nurse leadership
- Process improvement with accountability and operational follow-through
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Quality improvement, process standardization, and operational follow-through
- Culture building, engagement, and leadership development
- Culture building that promotes trust, safety, engagement, and accountability
- Change leadership through clear communication and team alignment
- Servant leadership with a steady, staff-centered approach
- Pediatric nursing leadership
- Pediatric psychiatry
- Behavioral health safety, suicide risk awareness, and ligature-risk prevention
- Daily unit operations
- Patient flow management
- Charge nurse shift leadership, huddles, assignments, and team direction
- Behavioral health safety
- Crisis intervention, de-escalation, code response, and emergency readiness
- Interdisciplinary care coordination with nursing, providers, therapy, and support teams
- Patient and family experience support during complex behavioral health care
- Staff education
- Professional development support for nurses, students, and behavioral health staff
- Quality improvement, process standardization, and operational follow-through
Certification
Registered Nurse (RN), Licensed January 2022, Basic Life Support (BLS), Expires 04/2027, National Phlebotomy Certification
Timeline
NURSE CLINICAL LEADER
Primary Children’s Hospital
02.2024 - Current
CHARGE NURSE – INPATIENT PSYCHIATRY
Primary Children’s Hospital
06.2023 - Current
REGISTERED NURSE – INPATIENT PSYCHIATRY
Primary Children’s Hospital
12.2022 - Current
REGISTERED NURSE – CARDIAC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (CICU)
Primary Children’s Hospital
01.2022 - 12.2022
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) - Nursing Practice
Eagle Gate College
Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) - Leadership Emphasis
Grand Canyon University