Michele R. Kuester
Westwood
Summary
Dynamic Clinical Nurse Coordinator with extensive experience at The University of Kansas Cancer Center, excelling in patient education and care coordination. Proven ability to manage complex treatment plans and foster team collaboration, ensuring optimal patient outcomes. Skilled in medication management and clinical assessment, dedicated to enhancing survivorship care for breast cancer patients.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical Nurse Coordinator for Medical Director, Breast Cancer Survivorship
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
Westwood
10.2019 - Current
- Providing patient care from diagnosis through treatment to survivorship.
- Ensuring patient education and the management of chemotherapies, targeted therapies, immunotherapies and hormone therapies.
- Prepping and running a high-volume breast oncology clinic of approximately 35 patients per day.
- Ordering medications including oral chemotherapy refills, prior authorizations, triaging phone calls and messages from patients, ordering imaging and Interventional radiology procedures, monitoring and interpreting labs values and coordinating patient’s care, treatments and schedules.
- Providing education and emotional support to patients while undergoing breast cancer treatment through survivorship.
- Interacting and building relationships with pharmaceutical representatives which promotes newest indications when it comes to therapies, medication treatments, genomic and genetic testing.
- Coordinating and collaborating patient’s treatments and care plan with our Breast Surgeons, Medical Oncologists, Radiation Oncologists, other specialties, nurse practitioners, treatment nurses, financial advisors, social workers, dieticians, schedulers and medical assistants.
Clinical Nurse Coordinator for Director of Hepatology
University of Kansas Hepatology and Liver Transplant
Kansas City
07.2018 - 10.2019
- Provided patient care from diagnosis to possible liver transplantation.
- Prepping and running clinic for the Director of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at KU Medical Center.
- Ordering medications, completing prior authorizations, triaging phone calls and messages from patients, ordering imaging and Interventional radiology procedures, monitoring and interpreting labs values, coordinating patient’s care, treatments and schedules.
- Attending tumor board and pathology review as a liaison between the hepatologist, interventional radiologists, pathologist and transplant surgeons.
- Providing education and emotional support to patients while undergoing treatment for liver disease.
- The University of Kansas Health Systems Main Campus.
Preoperative, Procedural and Post Anesthesia Outpatient Charge RN
The University of Kansas Pain Management Procedural Clinic
Overland Park
05.2012 - 10.2019
- For Pre-Operative Nursing: Educating patients on procedures, placing intravenous catheters, obtaining consent for surgery, obtaining vital signs and weight, preparing the surgical site, administering pre-operative medications.
- For Procedural Nursing in Pain Management: Placing intravenous catheters, consenting patient for procedure, prepping for procedure, scrubbing in for sterile ablations and epidurals, administering IV sedation while monitoring vital signs and educating on post procedural care.
- For post anesthesia which includes specializing in the critical, immediate care of patients emerging from anesthesia, monitoring vital signs, managing pain and accessing for life threatening complications while safely leading patients toward recovery and discharge.
Stylist
Stella and Dot
07.2009 - 09.2018
- An Independent Brand Ambassador creating a part-time flexible business which at one point I was managing 8 stylists under me.
- Direct sales and social selling model that combined e-commerce with in-home trunk shows to sell boutique style accessories and jewelry.
- Set up and sold Stella and Dot products at fundraising and holiday events, sorority homes and in home as well as online trunk shows.
- Completed purchasing transactions, marketing and merchandising displays and provided monthly team bonding meetings for my team.
Inpatient nursing for spine and orthopedic surgery, general surgery, weight loss (bariatric surgery), neurosurgery, and plastic surgery
Heartland Surgical Specialty Hospital
Overland Park
12.2007 - 05.2012
- Bedside nursing which includes clinical monitoring, medication administration, patient advocacy and education, holistic care and team coordination.
- Pain management procedural nurse. Placing intravenous catheters, consenting patient for procedure, prepping pre procedure, scrubbing in for sterile ablations and epidurals, administering IV sedation while monitoring vital signs and educating on post procedural care.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Avila College
Kansas City, MO01.1998
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology, English, Biology
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE01.1993
Skills
- Patient education
- Care coordination
- Medication management
- Team collaboration
- Nursing leadership
- Continuing education
- Clinical assessment
- Care planning
- Resource allocation
- Patient health education
- Medication administration
- Electronic charting
- Clinical quality improvement
- Vitals monitoring
Certification
- Basic Life Support
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Timeline
Clinical Nurse Coordinator for Medical Director, Breast Cancer Survivorship
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
10.2019 - Current
Clinical Nurse Coordinator for Director of Hepatology
University of Kansas Hepatology and Liver Transplant
07.2018 - 10.2019
Preoperative, Procedural and Post Anesthesia Outpatient Charge RN
The University of Kansas Pain Management Procedural Clinic
05.2012 - 10.2019
Stylist
Stella and Dot
07.2009 - 09.2018
Inpatient nursing for spine and orthopedic surgery, general surgery, weight loss (bariatric surgery), neurosurgery, and plastic surgery
Heartland Surgical Specialty Hospital
12.2007 - 05.2012
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Avila College
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology, English, Biology
University of Nebraska