Legal Nurse Consultant Experience:

Oct. ' 03 - Present
Legal Nurse Consultant
Portland, Oregon

Currently working for a variety of attorneys in the following capacities:

Medical record reviews; creating medical summaries and chronologies to find specific event(s), identifying important data relevant to quality of care; documenting possible breaches of the Standards of Care to provide information in finding probable cause. Interviewing medical personnel and reporting findings to attorney of record; interfacing with legal staff to expedite receiving medical records by the attorney of record; involved with several “tort law” cases, as well.

Nursing Experience

April - June 2003

Operating Room Nurse
Eastmoreland Hospital Portland, OR.

Contracted through Nursefinders, Inc. Multiple Specialty Operating Room experience: Orthopedic, Arthroscopic; Plastic Surgery, Laparoscopic, General surgery, including orientation of new staff.

May 2000 - April 2003

Operating Room Nurse
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital Portland, OR.

Contracted through Surgical Staff Inc. (May-Oct 2000) & Advantage Staff Inc. (Oct 2000 - April 2003):

Multiple specialty OR experience, including proctoring new RNs in the OR, Ortho-Neuro, Vascular, Plastic surgery, General surgery, Urology including Kidney Transplants, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Laparascopic, and Thoracic surgery.

October 1999 - May 2000

Operating Room Nurse
Adventist Medical Center Portland, OR.

Contracted through Surgical Staff Inc.
Multiple Specialty OR experience as above.

April - October 1999

Operating Room Nurse
Silverton Community Hospital Silverton, OR.

Contracted through Surgical Staff Inc.
Multiple Specialty OR experience (See above, including C-Sections).

March 1987 - 1999

Office Assistant
Renewal Focus, Inc. Customer Sales and Service.

August 1983 - June 1990

Operating Room Nurse
Adventist Medical Center Portland, OR.

Multiple Specialty OR experience. (See above).

August 1981 - August 1983

Office Assistant
Intermark Industries Inc. Portland, OR.

March 1979 - August 1981

Operating Room Nurse
Memorial Hospital St. Joseph, MI.

Multiple Specialty OR experience.

June 1978 - March 1979

Student Nurse Aid and Graduate Nurse
Kettering Medical Center Kettering, OH.

Float Graduate Nurse.