Nursing Expert Witnesses in Alaska

This highly experienced director of nursing for a 180 bed skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living community has over ten years of experience as a multi-state regional nurse manager. Her current position involves supervision of 150 team members to include the physicians, nurse team, floor nurses, social workers, infection control, quality assurance, medical records, a commissary and recreation therapy. She spent three years as a clinical nurse specialist. She is a registered and certified nursing home surveyor. She spent many years as a regional nurse consultant and recently received a Medicare/Medicaid deficiency free survey.

This expert has over twenty five years of experience as a nurse anesthetist (CRNA), as well as 8 years as a critical care registered nurse (RN). Over his career, this CRNA worked as an independent contractor as the sole anesthesia provider for multiple rural critical access hospitals and surgicenters across Oregon and Washington. Much of his work has been as a clinician and Chief Nurse Anesthetist for a large hospital system as a high risk OB Anesthesia provider. This expert has also worked as a clinical instructor and clinical coordinator for Oregon Health Sciences University nurse anesthesia program. Currently, this CRNA works in multiple urban hospitals providing anesthesia services for high risk obstetrical services. Additionally, this expert provides anesthesia generalist independent contracting services within Oregon and Washington.

This highly qualified expert is a licensed registered nurse with certification as a critical care nurse. She earned her BS in health science and community health education from Portland State University prior to earning her BSN from Oregon Health and Science University. She is active in her field as a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and she presents nationwide on topics in the field. Currently, she is a registered nurse in the cardiovascular intensive care unit as well as a clinical instructor of acute care at a university health system in Oregon.

This expert is an experienced RN specializing in perinatal care and neonatal intensive care. She completed her BSN at San Francisco State University and her MSN at Western Governors University. She is certified in neonatal intensive care and is a licensed RN. She is active in the field as a member of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses and the Association of Women Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing. She previously was a nurse in NICU’s at Rush University, Kaiser, UCSF Benioff Children’s, and OHSU’s Doernbecher Neonatal Care Unit. She has experience as a bedside nurse, a charge nurse, and a resuscitation and triage nurse attending to newborn resuscitations and codes. She has also worked in a neuro-intensive care nursery that primarily focused on infants suffering from hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. This expert currently works as a professional development consultant at a medical center, as a nurse educator at a perinatal treatment group, and as an adjunct professor at a university in Oregon.