• Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC)
• Licensed Respiratory Therapist (RCP)
• Licensed Registered Nurse (RN)
• Manager of Discharge Planning & Quality Assurance
• Manager of House Supervisor's
• Hospital Nursing Supervisor
• Certified Critical Care Nurse (CCRN)
• Certified Oncology Nurse
• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)
• Electrocardiograph Technician (EKG)
• Electrocephalograph Technician (EEG)
• Cardiopulmonary Technician
• Registered Medical Assistant (RMA)
• Continuing Education Provider - Board of Nursing (BRN CEP)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor (ACLS)
• Basic Cardiac Life Support Instructor (BCLS)
• Life Care Planner

• Nursing Supervisor over ICU, ER, Med-Surg, Obstetrics, Surgery (Outpatient & Inpatient)
• Intensive Care/Critical Care/Recovery Room (PACU), Open Heart
• Trauma/Emergency Room/Burn Unit
• Medical / Surgical Patients
• Labor/Post Partum
• Surgery Center
• Convalescent, Rehabilitation Homes Sub-acute
  (long term life support & brain damaged patients)
• Pediatric Cardiopulmonary
• Home Care
• Interventional Radiology

• RN License #456862 Expiration: August 20, 2016
• ACLS Instructor - Expired
• RCP License #00001141, Expiration: July 20, 2016
• BCLS Instructor - Expired
• ACLS, Expiration: October 30, 2016
• BRN # CEP 10768 - Expired
• BCLS, Expiration: October 30, 2016

• More than 600 cases to include plaintiff & defense in medical malpractice, personal injury, product's liability, Worker's Compensation & criminal

• 2 Criminal Trials
• 123 Medical Malpractice Depositions
• 1 Fraud Deposition
• 23 Medical malpractice and/or Elder Abuse trials
• 1 Court of Claims
• 5 Medical malpractice arbitrations
• 3 Mediation
• 2 BRN Hearings for the Defendant Nurse

• American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC)
• American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
• California Society for Respiratory Care (CSRC)
• American Association of RESPIRATORY CARE (AARC)

• Tulare County Board of Supervisors Advisory Board for Drug & Alcohol Abuse
• Instructor
  • IV Therapy
  • Ventilator Management
  • Basic Arrhythmia
  • Oxygen Modalities
  • Heart & Lung Sounds
  • Legal Issues in Critical Care
  • Forensic Evidence Collection in Sexual Assault Cases
  • Medical Legal Issues for Nurses

• Critical Care Nursing
• Nurse Week

• Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc.
  Degree - Certification in Legal Nurse Consulting Houston, TX - October, 1998
  Certified through November 01, 2009

• California State University Dominguez Hills BSN classes - 1992

• College of the Sequoia's, Associate Science Nursing
  Visalia, CA - September 1988 - May 1990

• Fresno Community College - Prerequisites for nursing program
  Fresno, CA - 1986 to 1990

• San Joaquin Valley College
  Certificate in Medical Assistant Course
  Visalia, CA - September 1982 February 1983

• Kings River Community College - Basic college courses
  Reedley, CA - Attended 1976 to 1977

• Alvarado Hospital
  6655 Alvarado Road
  San Diego, CA - 619-287-3270
  April 2002 to December 2010
  
  Positions Held - Presently - Interventional Radiology
  Positions Held - Past - ER, ICU & Nursing supervision
  Responsibilities - Patient care for ICU, ER, House Supervision & Radiology patients. JCAHO preparedness.


• Allstar Staffing
  San Diego, CA - 2000
  
  Positions Held - RN in the ICU & ER


• Nurse Finders
  8555 Aero Drive
  San Diego, CA - October 1999 to 2003
  
  Positions Held - ICU & ER primarily but also other hospital settings to include med-surg, telemetry, outpatient surgery Responsibilities-patient care in various hospital settings.


• Hanford Community Medical Center - Anita Natividad
  450 Greenfield
  Hanford, CA 93230 - 559-582-9000
  January, 1996 to October 1999
  
  Position Held - Nursing Supervisor & Overtime in ICU/ER nurse
  Responsibilities - Manager of Nursing Supervision. Responsible for all of the patient units to include bed control, patient admissions, staffing the units with nursing personnel, & patient complaints. In charge of assuring that patient care is delivered adequately & accurately by assuring that Standards of Care & hospital policy are carried out by the staff & physicians.
  
  The clinical expert & resource for all nursing staff units. Responds to all patient care situations that requires expert knowledge to include, but not limited to, trauma, life & death situations, life support, & medication issues.
  
  Active in updating hospital policies to meet Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO) standards. An active participant during the Department of Health & JCAHO on-site visits. I do frequent chart audits & chart review related to patient complaints & quality assurance (QA). ICU/ER nurse-keeps my clinical skills current by continuing to work in ICU/ER as a floor nurse. This continued experience keeps me knowledgeable in patient care for a simple diagnosis of pneumonia or a broken ankle to a more complex diagnosis such as a gunshot wounds to cardiac & respiratory arrest.


• KQC Staffing
  433 Keats
  Fresno, CA 93710 - 800-287-2199
  November 1991 - January 1996
  
  Position Held - Registered Nurse, ICU, CCU, Trauma/Burn Center, ER, Med-surg, Post-Partum Surgery.
  Responsibilities - KQC staffs acute care & long term care facilities on an "as-needed" basis with qualified nursing staff. I provided services at 20 different hospitals between Merced & Bakersfield while working for KQC & frequently worked in 3 to 4 hospitals in one week. Services rendered included Charge Nurse, neuro units, open heart, burn units, surgical & medical units, trauma (gunshot & stab wound victims to motor vehicle accident patients), labor & postpartum, convalescent homes, sub-acute facilities, rehabilitation hospitals & home care.


• Premiere Health Services (Out of business)
  Address & Phone Unknown
  Fresno, CA
  1991 to 1993
  
  Position Held - Registered Nurse-ICU/CCU/Trauma/Burn Center/ER/Med-surg/Post-Partum, Surgery
  Responsibilities - KQC Staffing staffs acute care and long term care facilities on a day by day or as needed basis with qualified nursing staff. I worked at 20 different hospitals between Merced and Bakersfield while working for KQC Staffing. Frequently working 3-4 different hospitals in one week. The patient care areas I worked in included Charge Nurse, neuro units, open heart, burn units, surgical and medical units, trauma (gunshot and stab wound victims to motor vehicle accident patients), labor and post- partum, convalescent homes, sub-acute facilities, rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient surgery and home care.



• Tulare District Hospital, Denise Perry
  869 North Cherry Avenue
  Tulare, CA, 559-688-0821
  June 1990 - January 1992
  
  Position Held - Registered Nurse, ICU - CCU
  Responsibilities - Patient care in ICU/CCU


• Valley Children's Hospital, Linda Austin
  9300 Valley Children’s Place
  Madera, CA 93638
  June 1986 to April 1988
  
  Position Held - Cardio-pulmonary Technician
  Responsibilities - Pediatric EKG, echo-cardiogram assistant & treadmill stress tests


• Lindsay Hospital Medical Center, Dennis Coleman
  740 North Sequoia
  Lindsay, CA 93247 559-562-4955
  June 1983 - June 1988
  
  Position Held - Licensed Respiratory Therapist, EKG & EEG Technician
  Responsibilities - All respiratory therapy modalities to include breathing treatments, arterial blood cases, life support (ventilator's or respirator's), EKG, EEG, adult coronary treadmill stress tests & pulmonary function tests & homecare visits of respiratory patients.


• Sequoia Medical Center
  590 West Putnam
  Porterville, CA 93257
  February 1983 - June, 1983
  
  Position Held - Registered Medical Assistant
  Responsibilities - Assistant to the physician in the doctor's office

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