Kelli Hester
Summary
Registered Nurse-Critical Care
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Dialysis Registered Nurse
Fresenius Kidney Care
11.2016 - Current
- Manage daily shift activities, conducting focused physical assessments pre and post treatments.
- Report abnormal findings to physician as necessary to ensure quality care.
- Educate patients on medical care, dietary, transportation, and educational resources.
- Oversee scheduling and rescheduling of patient treatments to optimize workflow.
- Administer medications according to treatment protocols before, during, and after procedures.
- Access AV fistulas, grafts, CVCs, and peritoneal accesses for treatment administration.
- Deliver dialysis treatments to patients with acute kidney failure and chronic kidney disease in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
RN Case Manager
Cornerstone Hospital
01.2015 - 11.2015
- Executed timely admissions of patients to initiate discharge planning through comprehensive interviews with patients and families.
- Established insurance coverage limits, including Medicare and Medicaid, to optimize resource utilization.
- Monitored coding of patient status based on documented diagnoses to ensure accuracy.
- Conducted weekly and daily reviews of clinical progress and treatment plans to maximize resource efficiency.
- Maintained open communication with physicians regarding care plans and outcome expectations.
- Participated in interdisciplinary team meetings to identify discharge barriers and track patient progress.
- Facilitated patient transitions to appropriate care levels, coordinating transfers to facilities like Skilled Nursing or Rehab.
- Coordinated home health treatment plans to support safe transitions to home environments when applicable.
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Unit
Jane Phillips Medical Center
02.2014 - 11.2014
- Delivered comprehensive nursing support to cardiopulmonary patients
Coffeyville Regional Medical Center
10.2012 - 03.2014
- Provided in home skilled care management to adult and pediatric patients with various long term and acute health care needs.
- Medical diagnoses included but weren't limited to cardiovascular and respiratory assessment, medication reconciliation and education, IV therapy, skin and wound care dressing changes and preventative interventions including wound vac maintenance, diabetes education and insulin teaching, foley catheter and IV /port access routine care.
- Established patient goals, visit frequency and discharge goals based on assessment and patient resource needs.
- Evaluations were performed for physical, occupational and speech therapy referrals.
- Patient progress was reviewed weekly to determine appropriate care plan interventions and changes needed to ensure positive patient outcomes by the end of the specified treatment period and identify additional services needed to maximize patient safety and health.
- This position also required on call rotation for acute situations in which patients were to be evaluated to determine if emergent care was necessary.
- Other applicable experience - Craig Home Health Pediatric Care, St.
- John Clinical Research, Windsor Place Long Term Care Facility; Prior to becoming a Registered Nurse, worked in the Commercial Insurance industry as both an Agent and Premium Auditor.
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Unit
Jane Phillips Medical Center
06.2010 - 10.2012
- Provided nursing care to patients in the Cardiac Telemetry/Critical Care Step down Unit.
- Duties included providing care to acute and post STEMI and NSTEMI patients, monitoring telemetry, implementing order sets for congestive heart failure, pre/post cath interventions and utilizing the nursing process and critical thinking skills to assess and provide ongoing patient care.
- Care involved IV/PICC/Central Line care and IV therapy per hospital protocol, medication administration.
- Assisted with identification of acute and post discharge needs, working closely with Case Management to accomplish appropriate discharge plan.
- Assisted physician with bedside procedures and fulfill other duties including wound care, skin care protocol/wound prevention and assistance with ADL's as needed.
- New skills were added daily to provide care to the diverse needs of our cardiac patients.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
The University of Texas at Arlington
2018
Associate Degree -
Labette Community College
2010
B.S - Organizational Management
John Brown University, BSN through University of Texas Arlington
2001
Skills
- Case management and discharge planning
- Hemo and peritoneal dialysis, acute and chronic
- Patient assessment
- Medication administration
- Telemetry monitoring
- Wound care
- Patient education
- Time management and critical thinking skills
Documentation Software Experience
Cerner, Epic, Ecube, Aces
Additional Information
- Registered Nurse, State of Oklahoma, #99438
- ACLS
- BLS
Timeline
Dialysis Registered Nurse
Fresenius Kidney Care
11.2016 - Current
RN Case Manager
Cornerstone Hospital
01.2015 - 11.2015
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Unit
Jane Phillips Medical Center
02.2014 - 11.2014
Coffeyville Regional Medical Center
10.2012 - 03.2014
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Unit
Jane Phillips Medical Center
06.2010 - 10.2012
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
The University of Texas at Arlington
Associate Degree -
Labette Community College
B.S - Organizational Management
John Brown University, BSN through University of Texas Arlington
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