Patient Transfer Protocol Expert Witnesses in Vermont

This highly qualified expert earned her BSN and MSN from Syracuse University and a PhD from the University of Rochester. She is a member of several medical committees and prestigious nursing societies dedicated to the improvement of health care delivery and nursing education. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing at a major university affiliated medical center/ nursing program, a maintains a Private Practice as a psychiatric Nurse Practitioner at an independent office. Additionally, she has presented at local, state, and national venues on a variety of educational and psychiatric topics.

This qualified nurse currently works as a Labor and Delivery Staff Nurse at two major university-affiliated hospitals which are nationally recognized as among the best providers of OB/GYN care. He received an A.S. in Nursing from Quincy College and a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Certified as a Registered Nurse in Inpatient Obstetrics and in Electronic Fetal Monitoring, he previously worked as a Labor and Delivery Staff Nurse for a community hospital and as a Staff Nurse for a senior living care center.

This expert earned her BS in Nursing from Curry College in Milton, MA. She holds an NCC certification as an inpatient obstetric nurse (RNC-OB) and a Healthy Children's Project certification as a lactation counselor (CLC). He formerly served as a labor and delivery nurse at St. Francis Hospital, The Hospital of St. Raphael, San Antonio Community Hospital, and Midstate Medical Center. She currently serves as a labor and delivery nurse a major medical center in Boston, Massachusetts. At this medical center, she also serves as a labor and delivery quality improvement task force member.

This expert is a certified legal nurse consultant and a registered nurse. She has has many positions as a nurse and now works as a life planner and nurse consultant at three different practices. She is certified as a life care planner and in life accident and health insurance.

This highly qualified expert has been a registered nurse for over 35 years. She has worked as a rehabilitation and intravenous nurse in both the hospital and home health care setting in OH. She has been a certified life care planner and case manager for 15 years and a certified nurse life care planner for over 5 years. She is also a certified brain injury specialist by the Brain Injury Association of America. She is a member of several professional organizations including the American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners, where she previously served in many roles including President and Secretary. She currently owns a medical consultancy firm in MA, through which she creates life care plans for patients with spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, and other chronic disabilities. She also prepares Medicare set-aside cost projections for worker's compensation and litigation settlements.

This expert is a certified Medical-Surgical Nurse. She received her Associate's in Registered Nursing from Erie Community College and Bachelor's in Nursing from the University of Buffalo. She is a member of several reputable nursing societies including the Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses, the Association of Peri-Anesthesia Nurses, and the Western New York Professional Nurses Association. She formerly worked as a Charge Nurse on a Medical Surgical floor and is currently a Nurse for Pre/Post-Anesthesia Care at a regional medical center.

This expert is highly qualified in the field of nursing. He earned his BSN from D'Youville College. He is a member of a few associations, including the American Nurses Association and American Association of Critical Care Nurses. He began his career as a staff nurse for phase 3 telemetry, cardiac care, and medical/surgical care at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo. He then worked as a staff hematology and oncology nurse for Dr. Isoceles Garbes. He has also worked as a staff nurse in the neurointensive care unit while at Mercy Hospital. He worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as both a nursing supervisor for nursing administration and a nurse manager for the surgical telemetry/step down unit. For his work with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, he received the Special Contribution Award for several projects. This expert currently serves as a lead clinical consultant on federal programs in the DHA and DoD for a medical technology company based in New Jersey.

This qualified expert has 7 years of experience in the field of nursing. She earned her BSN from Quinnipiac University and holds a certification in advanced electronic fetal monitoring. She began her career in the medical field as a patient care technician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She then served as a registered nurse in the women's health unit at the University of Virginia Medical Center, where she worked in the labor and delivery unit, the postpartum unit, and the newborn nursery unit. Currently, this expert is a registered nurse for the labor and delivery unit, as well as a charge RN and triage RN for the operating room and post-anesthesia care unit, of a university-affiliated academic medical center in Massachusetts.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in labor and delivery nursing, as well as maternal newborn nursing. She earned her BSN from Salem State University and has been practicing as a nurse for 13 years. She has formerly served as a clinical educator at Salem State University and as a registered nurse in the obstetrics unit at Melrose Wakefield Hospital. She has experience working in the operating room on cases that include cesarean sections, cerclage placements, and dilation, as well as working directly with patients that are in labor and have normal deliveries. Currently, this expert serves as a registered nurse in the obstetrics unit at a major hospital in Massachusetts.

This highly-qualified expert has more than 25 years of experience as a life care planner and a nurse case manager. She received a diploma in nursing from Mount Vernon Hospital School of Nursing before earning her BS from Oklahoma City University and her MPH from the University of Oklahoma. This expert is licensed as a registered nurse in New York and is certified as a nurse life care planner, disability management specialist, case manager, and rehabilitation counselor. She has drafted life care plans and medical projections since 1986 and is a member of several professional societies including the American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners and the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals. She has formerly served as a rehabilitation nurse consultant and supervisor of case management for American Rehabilitation Consultants, a rehabilitation specialist and medical case manager for Intracorp, a disability nurse manager of occupational managed care for Aetna Insurance, and a senior nurse for worker's compensation and a nurse case manager for Zurich Services Corporation. Currently, this expert is the president of a life care planning firm in New York, where she provides services for individuals of all ages with spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, orthopedic injuries, and trauma.

For nearly a decade, this expert was a nurse practitioner on the neurology team, a neurology clinical specialist and the Stroke Program Coordinator at two mid-sized regional hospitals. As the Stroke Program Coordinator, she was responsible for assuring that all clinical quality measures were addressed and achieved, as based on DPH, American Stroke Association, and JCAHO guidelines.

This expert has been practicing for over 40 years and has experience in both hospital and ambulatory care settings. A Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Specialist, she has been honored as a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. A Former President of the Greater New York Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, she is a reviewer for the Journal of Pediatric Nursing, the Journal of Pediatric Health Care, as well as The American Journal for Nurse Practitioners. The recipient of awards such as Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the Nurse Practitioner Association of Long Island and the Nelms-Miller Editorial Award by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, she is involved in research to improve the health care outcomes for children and has been awarded thousands of dollars in grants. Currently, this expert is a Clinical Professor at a major college of nursing, where she is also the Coordinator of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program and she practices as a pediatric nurse practitioner in a pediatric ambulatory care setting for at-risk infants, children, adolescents, and young adults as part of her faculty practice.

This qualified expert is a women's health and adult nurse practitioner certified in critical care, and has previously assumed a managerial nursing position. She has also published in her field.

This qualified nursing expert has been working in the OR for over 35 years with the last 23 spent as a Nurse Manager. Her hospital is an award winning 806-bed teaching hospital that delivers advanced care. She is intimately familiar with the standard of care regarding surgical counts. She is a Certified Nurse in the O.R.

This highly qualified expert is board certified in Infusion Nursing. She earned her RN from Middlesex Community College. She earned her BSN and MSN from Western Governors University. She has over ten years of experience as an infusion nurse and places over 5,000 peripheral catheters per year. She has held several supervisory and academic positions during her career. She serves as President of her local chapter of the Infusion Nurses Society in addition to seat on the national chapters education council. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, her duties include writing educational sessions for re-certification and continuing education for infusion nurses.

This highly qualified expert is a board certified Adult Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience in Gastroenterology. She earned her BSN and MSN from the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. She is a member of both the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and American Nurses Association. She has formerly worked as a registered nurse in Neuropsychiatry and Homecare before earning her nurse practitioner certification. As a nurse practitioner, she manages complicated GI patients both independently and as part of an integrated care team. She routinely treats patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and is well versed in the appropriate management of these patients.

This extremely qualified expert is a certified nurse practitioner with years of experience in the field of women's health and gynecology. She received her BSN degree from Georgetown University School of Nursing and her MSN degree in Nursing-Women's Health from Columbia University School of Nursing. She then received her DNP from Columbia University School of Nursing. She is a member of multiple organizations such as American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, the New York Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health, the North American Menopause Society, and the National Certification Corporation. She is a former nurse practitioner at New York Presbyterian Family Planning Clinic and Columbia Advanced Practice Nurse Associates. She is currently the senior Nurse Practitioner at a specialty Gynecological and Urogynecological surgery practice and an assistant professor of clinical nursing at a major university hospital in NY.

This highly qualified expert earned her BA from Cornell University, her BSN from Ursuline College, completed an MSN at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. She is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and a fellow of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. With over 40 years of experience as an RN, she has published 20+ peer-reviewed journal articles, 10+ abstracts and has presented over 20 posters at invited national meetings. This expert serves as a reviewer for major nursing journals including, the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, the Western Journal of Research and the Journal of Acute & Critical Care. She is a former Director of the Combined Degree Program at Lienhard School of Nursing and is a current Associate Professor of Nursing and Critical Care Nurse at a major university in NY.

The impact of her work is acknowledged through NIH and CDC funding to test sleep assessment and interventions, engagement in national work to establish and disseminate practice guidelines, influential publications, and national presentations. She assumes participation on interprofesisonal committees for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Sleep Research Society, and Society for Behavioral Sleep Medicine that promote evidence-based and best practices for sleep. Her influence in the scientific community is demonstrated through leadership and membership on six national expert/advisory panels sponsored by the American Society for Pain Management Nursing (ASPMN), CMS e-Measures Working Group, and industry (e.g., Medtronic and Hospira) to promulgate recommendations for safe and effective technology-supported pain care. She consults in hospitals throughout the country and deliver national presentations to advise nurses on safe monitoring practices for patients with obstructive sleep apnea and sleep disordered breathing receiving opioids. She conducted two practice analysis studies for ASPMN to evaluate the impact of the ASPMN expert consensus report on opioid monitoring practices, and subsequently spearheaded publications (JONA, 2016; Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing, 2014) to inform nursing practice and executive leaders of system- and patient care-level required to ensure patient safety. This highly qualified expert has been practicing for over 30 years. She completed a Bachelors in Nursing from State University of New York, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Rochester, and a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Rochester. She pursued two fellowships: T32 National Institute on Aging from the University of Rochester and Neuroimaging/Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester respectively. She is well known and respected in her field. She has co-authored a book on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, published 15 journal articles in addition to holding several lectures and presentation. She was awarded with the Academy of Sleep Medicine Young Investigator Award for Research. She has conducted post-doctoral work at the University of Rochester in the field of cognitive sciences and neuroimaging. In addition, she underwent hands on training in functional imaging procedures and analysis. She is currently serving as a Nurse Practitioner in the area of Sleep Medicine as well as mentoring PhD Students at a major university.

This qualified expert in Post GI Anesthesia Recovery Nursing obtained her AS in Medical Secretarial Science from Nassau Community College and her BSN in Nursing cum laude from SUNY Buffalo. She is a certified GI Nurse, a member of the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, and trained in Interventional GI procedures alongside some of the top physicians in the country. She is currently a Clinical GI Nurse at a Top Tier and Major Medical Center where she works in all areas of her 10 bed unit with an average of 60 patients per day.