Lisa Schmidt, BS, RN, is an ambulatory CDI specialist at Ochsner Medical Center in Houma, Louisiana. She joined Ochsner’s clinical documentation excellence team in April 2016. She has 11 years of experience as an oncology nurse and was an oncology certified nurse. She has worked with her department to create guidelines and workflows for the CDE outpatient team. She currently works with several primary care clinics and the hematology/oncology and neurology specialties to educate providers with respect to required documentation and coding.