Carlean Ernster, RN, BSN

• Working Fulltime, permanent, Mon thru Fri 0730-1600
• Encourage health-promoting behaviors to improve patient health and reverse disease.
• Assist orthopedic provider in administering injections, navigating community care referrals, and orthopedic complications.
• Explain course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms.
• Evaluate and assess phone calls from facilities, physician offices, hospitals and veterans to handle urgent issues and prioritize care.

• Provide care to renal failure patients, including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, CVVHDF, and total plasma exchange.
• Actively responsible for educating new staff, current staff and other departments of regulatory policies.
• Assisted with unit quality measures.
• Assessed physical, psychological, physiologic and cognitive status of patients.

Worked with facility from ground up, opening a 12 station hemodialysis unit, including peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis.

• Responsible for 65 patient facility, including 8 staff.
• Responsible for multi-million dollar budget of facility.
• Responsible for maintaining compliance of regulatory policies.
• Opened new dialysis facility grew from a 1 patient clinic to 42 patient unit.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of dialysis clinic functions.
• Served as point of contact for internal and external customers seeking support and information

Various nursing responsibilities including staff nurse, preceptor, charge nurse, assistant nurse manager, and nurse manager.

• Assistant nurse manager of inpatient dialysis unit (3 yrs), nurse manager outpatient dialysis unit (3 yrs).
• Staff/charge nurse/tech outpatient hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis unit (9 yrs). Staff/charge nurse inpatient dialysis unit (7 yrs).
• Staff nurse: MICU/CCU (3 yrs). ER (1yr). Home Health (2 1/2 yrs). Clinical Documentation (3 yrs).
• CDIS-working with ICD 9 codes in inpatient setting working with multiple disciplines and specialists to improve documentation for accuracy and coding purposes.
• Graduate of J.A. Thomas CDI Program, 2009.