Alura Meixell
Stillwater,MN
Overview
1
1
Certification
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Documentation Specialist
M Health Fairview
05.2025 - Current
- Lead concurrent and high-priority discharge chart reviews to improve documentation specificity, clinical accuracy, and appropriate coding assignment.
- Collaborate with coding, management, and providers to strengthen medical record integrity and monitor documentation for ICD-10, MS-DRG, and APR-DRG accuracy.
- Deliver weekly case presentations and maintain ongoing professional communication with physicians to facilitate timely and accurate documentation clarification.
- Mentor and support newly hired employees through onboarding, training, and professional development.
- Maintain active ACDIS membership and served as a keynote speaker in August 2025.
Team Supervisor
Hudson Physicians
05.2024 - 05.2025
- Supervise and support nine direct reports across Family Practice, Internal Medicine, and General Surgery, providing leadership, coaching, and performance guidance.
- Coordinate daily clinical operations, staffing, and workflow while serving as a liaison between providers, clinical staff, and the Clinical Services Manager.
- Lead implementation and improvement of clinical workflows, policies, and departmental initiatives to enhance efficiency, patient safety, and quality outcomes.
- Train and mentor staff on clinical procedures, quality standards, safety expectations, and organizational policies.
- Monitor staff performance, address issues promptly, and promote accountability and professional development.
- Proficient in patient triage, phlebotomy, outpatient care, and multidisciplinary care coordination.
- Co-developed and launched a comprehensive wound care program in collaboration with two physicians, leading the operational planning and implementation from concept to full program launch. Coordinated patient care and provider schedules, facilitated program meetings, established workflows and processes, managed supply ordering and inventory, and collaborated closely with physicians to ensure successful implementation and ongoing program operations.
Registered Nurse
Regions at Health Partners
02.2020 - 06.2024
- Provided critical care nursing to pediatric and adult burn patients throughout the continuum of care, from initial stabilization and critical care through multiple-stage surgeries, extended recovery, and outpatient burn clinic follow-up.
- Provided hands-on cardiac, respiratory, sedation, and paralytic monitoring for critically ill patients requiring complex, high-acuity care.
- Performed and assisted with initial burn debridement, allograft and autograft procedures, and wound vacuum therapy.
- Provided comprehensive wound care while maintaining knowledge of trauma care and bacterial and fungal infection prevention.
- Cross-trained in charge nursing responsibilities, supporting daily unit operations, staff coordination, patient assignments, and workflow management.
- Cross-trained in the outpatient burn clinic, providing continued wound care, patient education, assessment, and follow-up throughout the recovery process.
- Utilized PALS certification to provide specialized pediatric care and serve as an integral member of the pediatric code response team.
- Provided conscious sedation and close monitoring for pediatric patients undergoing procedures.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Rasmussen College
Bloomington, MN12-2019
Bachelor of Science - Kinesiology & Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI12-2016
Certification
- Minnesota Registered Nursing Licensure, current
- PALS/ACLS, current
- ABLS, current
- BLS-AED Certified, current
Burn PI And Volunteering
- Unit Practice Council:
Burn Unit's UPC Chair
∙ June 2021 – November 2022
Burn Book co-author
∙ 2021
Active UPC member:
∙ July 2020 – November 2022 - Volunteering:
Burn Camp Cheley Counselor
Burn Golf-Aid
Burn Volunteer Coordinator
Timeline
Clinical Documentation Specialist
M Health Fairview
05.2025 - Current
Team Supervisor
Hudson Physicians
05.2024 - 05.2025
Registered Nurse
Regions at Health Partners
02.2020 - 06.2024
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Rasmussen College
Bachelor of Science - Kinesiology & Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire