Registered Nurse Expert Witness

EDUCATION

8/98-08/03, Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing Degree, Fairmont State College, Fairmont, West Virginia

8/00-05/01, Associate of Science in Nursing Degree, Excelsior College, Albany, New York

1/93, Goldenwest College, Huntington Beach, California

12/16/81,Field Medial Service School, United States Navy

11/80, Clinical Assistant School, United States Navy

3/80, Mobile Medical Augmentation Recovery Team School, United States Navy

2/16/80, Naval Hospital Corps School, United States Navy

9/75-9/79, Saint Joseph High School, Santa Maria, California

AWARDS

2003/2004, 2004/2005, Nursing Students at United Hospital Center
6/98, Employee of the Month United Hospital Center
8/91, Employee of the Month FHP
2/16/82, Meritorious Mast
11/15/79, Meritorious Advancement in Rank
Three Recognition, Reinforcement, and Rewards UHC
Nine Member Service Awards FHP
Extra Mile Award FHP
Certificate of Appreciation for helpfulness in instructing
Overseas Deployment Ribbon

LICENSES

Registered Professional Nurse West Virginia (active)
Licensed Practical Nurse, West Virginia (expired)
Licensed Vocational Nurse, California (expired)

CERTIFICATES

Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course, Expires 04/30/09
Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum, Expires 05/31/08
Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Expires 11/2005
Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Expires 06/2006
Basic Life Support Instructor, Expires 02/2006

EXPERIENCE

10/04, Independent Expert Nurse Consultant, Research
Focus Group on stroke equipment development for use in Emergency Department by nursing.

11/04, Independent Expert Nurse Consultant, Surgical Product Company
Survey Consulting on surgical products and representation.

1/05, Independent Expert Nurse Consultant, Medical Company
Phone Consultation on peripheral inserted wing tip devices.

2/05, Independent Expert Nurse Consultant, Branding Company
Chimera III Survey Consult on pharmaceutical brand name including ease of transcription and identifying uniqueness of name.

5/05, Independent Expert Nurse Consultant, Branding Company
Envoy III Survey Consult on pharmaceutical brand name including ease of transcription and identifying uniqueness of name.

6/05, Independent Expert Nurse Consultant, Trial Attorneys
Expert Witness for case presently in progress

6/05, Independent Expert Nurse Consultant, Company
Survey Consulting on Arterial Lines with expert opinion of familiarity with companies and ease of preparation and use.

7/05, Independent Expert Nurse Consultant, Branding Company
Prawn MED Survey Consult on pharmaceutical brand name including ease of transcription and identifying uniqueness of name.

7/05, Independent Expert Nurse Consultant, Branding Company
AMN107 MRIII Survey Consult on pharmaceutical brand name including ease of transcription and identifying uniqueness of name.

5/01-Present, Charge Nurse, Staff Nurse in level III Emergency Dept., Clinical Ladder Level II Hospital Center

10/96-05/01, LPN II Telemetry/Medical/Surgical Unit, Hospital Center

3/92-07/96, LVN in Level III Emergency Department with float responsibility to ICU and Medical, Surgical Units. Hospital

1/91-02/94, Urgent Visit under the hospices of the Emergency Department, Hospital

1/90-01/91, Private Practice, Back-office LVN in Family Practice setting

3/89-01/90, LVN on Medi-Care Cert. Wing caring for convalescent patients, Care West Garfield

12/87-03/89, LVN Weekend Supervisor in Urgent Visit, Medical Clinic

3/87-10/87, LVN Surgical and Administrative Assistant, Research Institute

11/83-03/87, Nurses Aide concurrently with Military service, then as an LVN in 1983 Worked Registry in Orlando Florida, San Diego and Santa Ana California offices. Martyn, Drucker, Venuto, and Cook

9/79-09/83, United States Navy (active duty)

PUBLICATIONS

Available upon request

KEYWORDS

Nurse Expert Witness, Registered Expert Witness, RN Expert Witness, Emergency Expert Witness, Telemetry Expert Witness, Nursing and Family Expert Witness, Orthopedic Nursing Expert Witness, Urgent Visit Nursing Expert Witness

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