Eileen Schaffer
Pittsburgh,PA
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Intake Coordinator-Marketing and Communications Preadmissions Team
Lutheran Senior Life Services
03.2025 - Current
- Screen initial patient referral and manage the admissions process for acute skilled and long-term care referrals.
- Review medical history, determine clinical appropriateness, and complete admission paperwork accurately.
- Provide support and guidance to families and participants throughout the intake process.
- Collaborate with internal staff and external referral sources to ensure a safe transition to post-acute services within the continuum.
Professional Staff Nurse Care Coordinator- Pregnancy and Women's Recovery Clinic
UPMC Magee Women's Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA
07.2018 - 10.2024
- Outpatient Staff nurse, as part of a comprehensive medical team to provide clinical assessment and support for women with substance use disorder.
- Provide detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to guide them through the episode of care both in the office setting and via phone/written communication.
- Nurse coordinator for two community clinics, working in collaboration with the medical team, providing comprehensive recovery services.
- Submit accurate documentation and forms for prior authorizations required for approval of medications.
- Provide education and consultative services with inpatient and outpatient services.
- Lead Nurse providing education and Covid-19 vaccinations within the OB/Gyne outpatient clinic, hospital-based clinic and with the UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) Community Covid vaccination team.
- Lead nurse for the Hepatitis C collocated clinic. Schedule consultations, provide education, complete prior authorizations, and treatment follow up with participants.
- Pittsburgh, PA
Professional Staff Nurse
Sherwood Oaks Skilled Nursing Facility-A UPMC Senior Community
Cranberry Twp., PA
10.2017 - 10.2019
- Provide comprehensive care on a 43-bed mixed skilled and long-term care unit, including those residents in hospice care.
- Nursing care includes physical assessment, care planning, medication administration, respiratory treatments, and wound care.
- Triage calls from residents in campus independent living and provide immediate medical attention if required.
- Charge Nurse assisting with admissions, coordination of care, update family members, and delegate appropriate tasks to ancillary personnel.
- Cranberry Twp., PA
Senior Professional Staff Nurse
UPMC Children's Primary Care Center-General Academic Pediatrics
Oakland, PA
12.2016 - 10.2017
- Fast-paced, outpatient pediatric practice providing well and sick care for newborn through adolescent populations with over 10,000 contacts per calendar year.
- Responsible for physical assessment, age-appropriate education, immunizations, respiratory treatments, and medication administration.
- Obtain and process a variety of specimens. Perform Infant through young adult phlebotomy.
- Role includes telephone triage, care coordination, Charge nurse responsible for patient flow, delegating treatments, and communicating with medical and front office staff.
- Oakland, PA
Senior Professional Staff Nurse
Magee-Women's Hospital of UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA
07.2012 - 12.2016
- Responsible for assessment and care of the medically complicated term and pre-term infant within a 77-bed, Level III, neonatal intensive care unit.
- Provide nutritional and lactation support, cardio-respiratory monitoring, medication administration, and assessment and treatment of infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS).
- Resource Nurse for NOWS assessment and education of the newborn nursery staff.
- Effective communication and collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to provide quality care and improve patient outcomes.
- Developed a comprehensive orientation for volunteers in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) cuddler program.
- Pittsburgh, PA
Professional Staff Nurse
UPMC Magee-Women's Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA
11.2006 - 12.2012
- Responsible for complex medical and surgical assessment and care of obstetrical patients experiencing complications during or after pregnancy in a 26-bed unit.
- Continuous and intermittent fetal monitoring according to established guidelines.
- Participate in caring for women with known or suspected seizure disorders on a two-bed continuous electroencephalogram observation unit.
- Experience with assessing women and newborns for signs and symptoms of withdrawal from various substances and provide non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions.
- Charge nurse responsible for; assessing the needs of patients and staff, supervising ancillary staff, and timely and effective communication with all members of the medical team.
- Rotate to Labor and Delivery Triage, NICU, and medical and surgical floors as needed.
- Pittsburgh, PA
Professional Staff Nurse
The Ohio Valley Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA
11.2002 - 12.2009
- Assess, plan, and implement all aspects of nursing care for the gynecological patient, neonate, intrapartum, antepartum, and postpartum patients.
- Transport high-risk obstetrical patients to tertiary hospitals.
- Charge Nurse coordinating patient care and orienting new staff.
- Create and implement hospital based prenatal and breastfeeding classes.
- Participate in hospital-sponsored community health fairs providing health education and basic screenings.
- Pittsburgh, PA
Timeline
Clinical Intake Coordinator-Marketing and Communications Preadmissions Team
Lutheran Senior Life Services
03.2025 - Current
Professional Staff Nurse Care Coordinator- Pregnancy and Women's Recovery Clinic
UPMC Magee Women's Hospital
07.2018 - 10.2024
Professional Staff Nurse
Sherwood Oaks Skilled Nursing Facility-A UPMC Senior Community
10.2017 - 10.2019
Senior Professional Staff Nurse
UPMC Children's Primary Care Center-General Academic Pediatrics
12.2016 - 10.2017
Senior Professional Staff Nurse
Magee-Women's Hospital of UPMC
07.2012 - 12.2016
Professional Staff Nurse
UPMC Magee-Women's Hospital
11.2006 - 12.2012
Professional Staff Nurse
The Ohio Valley Hospital
11.2002 - 12.2009