Leanna Goldman
Registered Nurse
Pittsburgh,PA
Summary
Current nurse leader working in behavioral health. Hoping to return to the beside to gain critical care experience and further expand skill set
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Unit Director
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
08.2022 - Current
- Led a multidisciplinary team of roughly fifty healthcare professionals, including nurses, milieu therapists, and support staff, fostering a collaborative and positive work environment.
- Managed day-to-day operations, including staffing, scheduling, and resource allocation, to meet patient care needs while maximizing efficiency.
- Played a key role in achieving and maintaining high patient satisfaction scores as demonstrated through press ganey scores and Parliaq rounding.
- Through strategic planning and transformational leadership was able to hire and maintain staffing levels to expand bed capacity on the unit by 110%
Clinician
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
08.2021 - 08.2022
- Served in a leadership capacity with responsibility for staff scheduling, direct report management and rounding, unit-based quality improvement projects, and documentation auditing.
- Acted as a preceptor for new nurses on the unit based upon the principles taught at UPMC Precepting for Success. Supported new nurse preceptors as they adjusted to that role.
- Provided professional nursing care on the patient care unit, primarily in the charge nurse capacity.
- Identified nurses' and staff training needs and devised training programs to close gaps.
- Implemented best practices and modeled standards of care for both nursing and ancillary Staff
Psychiatric Nurse Resource Pool
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
02.2021 - 08.2021
- Performed patient assessments to monitor expected response to medications and altering treatment plans.
- Monitored primary care needs for patients to coordinate access to appropriate providers.
- Educated patients and families about mental health, diagnoses and treatment options.
- Maintained a high degree of flexibility and adaptability while working in varying departments and changing patient assignments multiple times during a day
Clinical Care Coordinator
LifeSource Organ Procurement Organization
10.2019 - 06.2020
- Oversaw and completed final audits on all organ donation records to ensure accuracy, consistency, and data integrity, as well as compliance with United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid standards.
- Maintained responsibility for regulatory reporting to UNOS on donor feedback, deceased donor registration (DDR) forms, and imminent and eligible death reporting.
- Served as liaison between the Quality and Clinical departments, and providing education to both on required data and documentation needed to achieve regulatory compliance.
- Obtained culture reports and other postmortem data on all deceased donors and reported results to the associated transplant centers during case follow up
- Assisted with clinical cases as necessary
Professional Staff Nurse
UPMC Mercy
02.2018 - 05.2019
- Provided emergent triage, assessment, and intervention to stabilize critically ill patients in the region’s busiest, and only facility that cared for, level one trauma, obstetrics, burn, psychiatric and stroke patients.
- Established and maintained effective communication with physicians, medics, patients, and family members to provide high quality, efficient, and culturally sensitive care
- Managed flow of patients and decompression of the department by effectively utilizing resources and following guidelines set by the National Emergency Department Overcrowding Scale (NEDOCS).
Professional Staff Nurse 9G
UPMC Presbyterian
01.2017 - 02.2018
- Worked primarily in a charge nurse capacity with duties including rounding with physicians, answering questions, addressing problems of other nurses and patients, updating staffing, and making assignments for the upcoming shift.
- Provided nursing care, safely administered medications, performed detailed full system assessments, and documented in Cerner E-record on up to six trauma patients at once.
- Established and maintained effective communication with physicians, providers, and other members of the interdisciplinary team
- Served as a patient advocate when rounding to ensure patients’ needs were addressed by the care team
Student Nursing Assistant
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
08.2014 - 01.2017
- Completed therapeutic observations of patients to maintain a safe milieu.
- Assisted patients in activities of daily living.
- Managed crisis situations, effectively utilizing the least restrictive means of treatment under the direction of nursing and behavioral health staff.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chatham University
Pittsburgh, PA 12.2016 - 05.2020
Diploma -
UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing
Pittsburgh, PA 05.2001 -
Skills
Operations Management
undefinedAffiliations
- UPMC Western Psychiatric Patient Safety Committee
- UPMC Western Psychiatric Patient Experience council
- UPMC Presbyterian Informatics Council
Timeline
Unit Director
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
08.2022 - Current
Clinician
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
08.2021 - 08.2022
Psychiatric Nurse Resource Pool
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
02.2021 - 08.2021
Clinical Care Coordinator
LifeSource Organ Procurement Organization
10.2019 - 06.2020
Professional Staff Nurse
UPMC Mercy
02.2018 - 05.2019
Professional Staff Nurse 9G
UPMC Presbyterian
01.2017 - 02.2018
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chatham University
12.2016 - 05.2020
Student Nursing Assistant
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
08.2014 - 01.2017
Diploma -
UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing
05.2001 -
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