Backed by more than 30 years of experience, this nursing and life care planning expert specializes in emergency and acute care nursing, triage, trauma, critical care, nursing administration, case management, correctional healthcare review, and healthcare policy and regulatory compliance. She has provided emergency nursing services to patients of all ages and held clinical leadership positions overseeing emergency departments, trauma services, and hospital nursing operations. Her professional background also includes evaluating medical, mental health, and dental care provided within California’s correctional system to determine compliance with professional, regulatory, and departmental standards, identifying potential risk-management concerns, contributing to quality improvement and risk-reduction initiatives, and supporting compliance and litigation-related reviews.

Her life care planning expertise includes developing life care plans, estimating lifetime medical costs associated with catastrophic events and chronic conditions, reviewing medical bills, and providing case management services. As a legal nurse consultant, she analyzes medical records, evaluates adherence to applicable standards of care, provides testimony regarding standards of care, conducts medical literature research, prepares comprehensive medical chronologies, and produces written case summaries and reports. She has operated her legal nurse consulting practice since 1991 and holds certifications in life care planning, case management, legal nurse consulting, emergency nursing, nursing leadership, and Medicare set-aside consulting.

She has more than 20 years of expert witness experience involving consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony. Her credentials include a Doctor of Nursing Practice, a Master of Science in Nursing, a Master of Public Administration in Health Services Administration, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She is a licensed registered nurse and public health nurse in California and a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Nursing. In addition to authoring numerous publications, she has served in editorial leadership roles for nursing and legal nurse consulting publications. Her professional contributions address emergency nursing standards, life care planning, medical bill review, medical cost projections, medical record analysis, correctional healthcare, and the role of the nurse expert witness.