Registered nurse and nursing expert witness with more than 40 years of clinical experience, this expert evaluates standards of nursing care and patient management practices in matters involving acute care, home health services, wound care, and dialysis treatment. The expert has more than 14 years of experience in legal nurse consulting and provides expert witness services including case screening for merit, medical research, litigation consultation, chronology preparation, expert witness identification, and testimony in healthcare-related legal matters. Professional nursing practice includes extensive work in hospital-based medical, surgical, and cardiac care environments as well as home care and case management settings. Registered Nurse. Wound Care Certified (WCC), Wound Care Education Institute. Certified Legal Nurse Consultant (CLNC). Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). Education includes a Registered Nurse diploma and additional allied health sciences study. Professional affiliations include the National Alliance of Wound Care, the Wound Ostomy Care Nurses Society, and the International Nurses Association.

Clinical expertise encompasses acute care nursing in medical-surgical and cardiac step-down units, coronary intensive care environments, home health nursing, dialysis coordination, and case management for complex patient populations. Specialized knowledge includes wound management, pressure ulcer prevention, and skin integrity assessment, along with IV therapy and multidisciplinary patient care coordination. The expert has also served in clinical leadership roles as a charge nurse and resource nurse responsible for staffing coordination, clinical problem resolution, and providing guidance to nursing staff on wound care, IV therapy, and patient management practices. Additional responsibilities have included serving as a clinical resource for electronic medical record implementation and staff education programs focused on patient safety and high-reliability healthcare practices. The expert currently serves as President of a medical consulting practice providing legal nurse consulting and expert witness analysis. Work through this consulting practice includes reviewing medical records, conducting medical research, preparing chronologies, and assisting legal teams in evaluating nursing care and healthcare practices in litigation matters. Earlier roles in the healthcare field included nursing positions in hospital medical-surgical units, cardiac care environments, home health agencies, dialysis programs, and insurance-based case management services, providing a broad perspective on patient care delivery across multiple healthcare settings.