This Registered Nurse and Legal Nurse Consultant has more than 40 years of nursing experience in acute and sub-acute healthcare settings, including critical care, interventional radiology, medical-surgical nursing, and discharge planning. For over 10 years, she has served as an expert witness, providing litigation consultation, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony in matters involving medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, nurse liability, and hospital policy compliance. Her work focuses on evaluating nursing care and adherence to established standards of care, clinical protocols, and institutional policies.

Her clinical practice includes direct bedside management of adult cardiopulmonary and ventilated patients (acute and chronic), open-heart patients, intra-aortic balloon pump therapy, and continuous venous dialysis. She has experience in the care and management of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, telemetry monitoring, and stroke care within a certified stroke hospital setting. Additional experience includes moderate sedation for procedures in the intensive care unit and interventional radiology, initiation and management of intravenous therapy, and oversight of epidural catheters and patient-controlled analgesia.

Her background also encompasses wound care assessment and management, including staging and documentation of pressure injuries and implementation of appropriate wound therapies, as well as fall risk assessment and participation on rapid response teams. She has held supervisory roles as a relief manager and charge/resource nurse in ICU and medical-surgical units and has participated in the review and revision of hospital policies and procedures. This experience informs her analysis of nursing supervision, patient management, discharge planning, and institutional standards in healthcare-related litigation matters. She is a Licensed Registered Nurse and holds Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) and Legal Nurse Consultant Certified (LNCC) credentials. Her education includes a Diploma in Nursing, along with certification in Critical Care Nursing and Neonatal Nursing.