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Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Registered Nurse Specializing in Pediatrics, Urgent Care and Family Practice

ID: 735582 Florida, USA

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Expert is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Legal Nurse Consultant with more than forty years of experience in clinical practice, education, and healthcare consulting. Her background spans primary care, pediatrics, women’s health, urgent care, emergency medicine, inpatient hospital care, and neonatal intensive care. Clinical work has consistently focused on family-centered and pediatric populations across both community-based and hospital settings.

Expert has held advanced practice roles within pediatric hospitals, emergency departments, urgent care centers, private practices, and community health clinics. Notably, she served for many years as a pediatric nurse practitioner hospitalist, autonomously managing overnight inpatient pediatric admissions, intensive care coordination, and interfacility transfers. Earlier clinical roles included emergency services practice and combined family, pediatric, and women’s health care delivery. This breadth of experience supports a comprehensive understanding of acute care, chronic disease management, and multidisciplinary clinical operations.

In addition to clinical practice, Expert has maintained a long-standing academic career through joint faculty, associate professor, clinical professor, and adjunct instructor appointments at multiple nursing and medical schools. Responsibilities have included curriculum development, clinical supervision, and didactic instruction across pediatric, maternal-child, emergency, and community health nursing programs. Her professional scope also includes legal nurse consulting and provider wellness initiatives, integrating clinical expertise with healthcare education, forensic analysis, and patient safety perspectives.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1982 Degree: MS Subject: Nursing and Community Health, Family Nurse Practitioner Institution: University of Kentucky

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2024 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Nursing Clinical Instructor Department:
Responsibilities:
• Provides clinical and didactic instruction for senior BSN nursing students.
• Serves as lead instructor for pediatric care and pediatric emergency care.
• Delivers pediatric clinical instruction at Advent Hospital’s Children’s Disney Pavilion.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2024 to 2024 Employer: True Health Community Health Title: Nurse Practitioner Department:
Responsibilities:
• Provided pediatric primary care in a community health setting serving newly arrived immigrant populations.
• Delivered comprehensive family-centered care including well visits, episodic illness care, and physical examinations.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2021 to 2025 Employer: Halifax Express Care Urgent Care Title: Family Practice Nurse Practitioner Department:
Responsibilities:
• Provided urgent and after-hours care to adult and pediatric patients.
• Performed physical examinations, employment screenings, school physicals, and episodic care.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2020 to 2023 Employer: South Florida Pediatric Partners Title: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Department:
Responsibilities:
• Delivered pediatric primary and extended-hours care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Provided care for pediatric patients from birth through young adulthood across a multi-practice network.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2018 to 2020 Employer: Private Pediatric Practice Title: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Department:
Responsibilities:
Provided well-child care, wellness exams, and management of episodic pediatric illness.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2017 to 2018 Employer: Pediatric Associates Title: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Department:
Responsibilities:
• Delivered care across multiple offices including after-hours pediatric services.
• Managed high-volume patient schedules focused on preventive and acute pediatric care.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1996 to 2017 Employer: Baptist CHildren's Hospital Title: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Department: Hospitalist & Emergency Services
Responsibilities:
• Oversaw overnight inpatient pediatric care for a children’s hospital including ICU and step-down units.
• Completed admissions, histories, physicals, and coordinated transfers without on-site physician presence.
• Utilized Cerner and additional hospital EMR systems.
• Provided urgent and emergency care across multiple emergency departments and urgent care centers.
• Treated adult, pediatric, and family populations.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1986 to 1996 Employer: University of Miami Schools of Medicine and Nursing Title: Joint Faculty Practice & Associate Professor Department:
Responsibilities:
• Designed and implemented graduate-level family nurse practitioner clinical curricula.
• Supervised medical and nursing students in family practice clinical settings.
• Managed patient care autonomously as a family nurse practitioner.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1976 to 1986 Employer: Additional Experience Title: Nursing Roles Department:
Responsibilities:
• Family Nurse Practitioner, Planned Parenthood of South Florida
• Neonatal Nurse Clinician, University of Kentucky Teaching Hospital
• Nurse Manager, University of Florida Shands Teaching Hospital

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Certified Legal Nurse Consultant with experience supporting legal matters involving pediatric, family, and adult healthcare. Litigation support includes medical record review, case analysis, standard-of-care assessment, and identification of clinical issues related to patient care delivery.

Career Accomplishments

Licenses / Certifications
• ANCC Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
• RN/APRN, State of Florida
• Certified Legal Nurse Consultant (CLNC)
• ACLS – Adult Advanced Life Support
• PALS – Pediatric Advanced Life Support
• BLS – Basic Life Support
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification (2024)
• Certified Medical Yoga Therapist (500-hour)
• Certified Yoga and Children’s Yoga Instructor (500-hour)
• ASPO Childbirth Educator
• La Leche League Lactation Consultant

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