Leah M Marshall

Address: **** ******* ***** **, ** Dorado Hills, CA 95762

P: 541-***-**** E: add2lh@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/leah-marshall-2b5b55196

A versatile, collaborative, accomplished, and knowledgeable healthcare professional with substantiated achievement and aptitude for leading individuals and teams to success. Twenty years of diverse clinical experience, outstanding organizational and analytical skills. Highly collaborative with propensity for constructing dynamic relationships that afford continuity in function with enterprise towards excellence and actualization of business goals.

Possess verifiable leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills with a polished and professional delivery. A remarkably successful educator and mentor to peers and colleagues, owing to exceptional interpersonal communication and invariable support. Manage individualized guidance while governing teams in the achievement of identified objectives. Propensity to function in fast-paced business environments and thrive in autonomous conditions through innate problem-solving skills and prosperous mindset. Success in navigation of ambiguous challenges while maintaining regimented and disciplined expertise in the attainment of identified goals.

Professional Experience

VA Northern California Healthcare System (2019)

Reusable Medical Equipment/Quality Improvement Coordinator-Educator

Implemented quality improvement methodologies in the initial design of the program responsible for oversight of reprocessing, storage, and transportation of Reusable Medical Equipment (RME). Managed projects across multiple specialties from initiation through delivery for process improvement opportunities.

Optimized performance measures to guide innovative, cost, and time conserving processes within Sterile Processing Services.

Actualized standardized process under the direction of manufacturers IFU in collaboration with key internal stakeholders to meet stringent VA compliance measures in the handling, storage, and transportation of RME.

Developed accountability tool for RME Masterlist to accurately depict CMS, AAMI, NPOSP, OIG, and Joint Commission regulatory compliance in the accounting of critical, semi-critical, and non-critical RME within individual facilities.

Developed Risk Analysis tool for standardization of competency assessment based on usage/complexity of IFU for end-users and reprocessing of RME.

Medical writing supporting standardized operating procedures (SOP) and educational competency documentation outlining responsibilities of end-users and reprocessing staff based on manufacturer's IFU. Ensured end-user and reprocessing compliance was upheld and documented through SOP and competency validation on a triennial/annual basis using a standardized tool across the healthcare system.

Executed analysis of program outcomes through qualitative and quantitative measures in the reduction of repeat findings of Joint Commission, NPOSP, VORP, VISN, and OIG regulatory audits.

Subject matter expert (SME) on the development and execution of auditing and monitoring processes to meet compliance measures.

Developed multidisciplinary new employee and annual education Learning Management System (LMS) specific to RME compliance. Monitored compliance of educational requirements based on risk analysis tool. Optimized interdepartmental engagement in the adoption of new equipment practices

Fort Sutter Surgery Center (2017 – 2019)

RN, Perioperative Services

Facilitated coordination of care in the peri-operative setting for a high-volume ambulatory surgical center (60-100 + pts/day). Maintained safe surgical and privacy measures for patients undergoing OR, GI, and interventional pain procedures. Managed Phase I and Phase II care of postoperative/post-procedural patients through discharge.

Implemented culturally competent practices and teaching methods for diverse patient populations with consideration to social determinants of health.

Collaborated with anesthesia to develop procedure-specific, developmentally appropriate education plans for pre-hospital and post-op needs. Managed employee education regarding patient and procedure-specific outcomes.

Rise Medical & MGA Healthcare (2016-2017)

RN, PACU

Travel RN in PACU, Pre-Op, and Endoscopy specialties. San Joaquin General Hospital, Stockton, CA (Oct. 2016-3/17) within a Level 2 trauma center in the PACU and Endoscopy; Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, CA (Pre-op, PACU-3/16-10/16). Maintained accurate documentation of patient care through Cerner and McKesson EMR systems.

Three Rivers Medical Center (2011-2015)

RN, Charge-PACU, CVR, Endoscopy

Optimized compliance measures specific to population-based health initiatives in an outpatient surgical setting. Implemented a post-procedure call program for outpatient surgical populations for high-risk populations.

Provided peri-operative nursing care for inpatient and outpatient populations undergoing OR and endoscopic procedures. Managed phase 1 and phase 2 care for post-op patients through discharge or transfer.

Administered and monitored patients receiving conscious sedation with Propofol for endoscopy, RFA treatment, colonoscopy, EUS, foreign body removal, and bronchoscopy under the direct supervision of a physician.

Cardiovascular recovery following routine cath lab procedures, including maintenance and discontinuation of radial and femoral art lines, TEE, pacemaker insertion, and cardioversion. Mentored new employees and new graduates and precepted nursing students. ACLS, PALS, NAPS, BLS, EPIC implementation, MAK, and Image Stream experience. Multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve 99% patient satisfaction within the first year of opening the outpatient center. Ensured safe staffing ratios for RN, GI tech, OR techs, and ancillary staff.

Collaborated with anesthesia to develop procedure-specific, developmentally appropriate education plans for pre-hospital and post-op needs. Managed employee education regarding patient and procedure-specific outcomes.

Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center (2001-2010)

RN, Critical Care (ICU) & Endoscopy

Facilitated care coordination in a 378 bed Level 2 trauma center while providing pre-op, intra-op, and post-op care for inpatient and outpatient populations. Administered and monitored conscious sedation using Propofol, or Fentanyl and Versed for patients undergoing endoscopy, colonoscopy, ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, liver biopsy, foreign body removal, and bronchoscopy under direction of gastroenterologists and pulmonologists.

Provided multidisciplinary care for patients with life-threatening illnesses, massive trauma, respiratory failure, vascular and coronary diseases, drug overdose, unstable post-op, and multi system organ failure in 16 bed Intensive Care Unit, Level 2 trauma center. Swan-Ganz, arterial and femoral lines, NAPS, code and RRT, CRRT, ventilator and trach care, advanced telemetry, Level One, IV therapy, vasoactive drips. Orientation of new grad and new hire employees, precepted nursing students and new hires.

Professional Development & Certifications

Master of Science, Nursing (MSN), Clinical Nurse Leadership (CNL) University Of San Francisco, 2018

Associate of Science, Nursing Rogue Community College, 2001

Certifications/Skills:

CRMST-Sterile Processing

Six-Sigma Yellow Belt

Certified Healthcare Quality Professional (CHQP est. 5/2020)

Member: American Society Peri-Anesthesia Nurses (ASPAN), Healthcare Compliance Commission (HCC)

Epic, Cerner, McKesson EHR Implementation, MAK, Image Stream Excellence

Learning Management System (LMS),Web Based Education Development, Adult Education

ISO, Agile, LEAN, Kaizen Methodologies

Analytics Integration

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