Antepartum Expert Witnesses

Alamo, California

Nurse, Obstetrics & Gynecology - labor and delivery, labor and delivery nurse, obstetrics, high risk obstetrics, fetal monitoring, birth injury, antepartum, nursing license defense

Nicole McCaughin, MSN, RNC, C-EFM, C-ONQS Certified in Inpatient Obstetrics, External Fetal Monitoring, Obstetric and Neonatal Quality and Safety, Inpatient Antepartum Nursing and Obstetric Emergencies. Currently working as a bedside labor and delivery nurse. As well as bedside practice worked as an adjunct faculty member teaching Women's Health at Ohlone Nursing College, Science Team Member for AWHONN, Job Analaysis Team for the NCC (the organization the certifies obstetric nurses) and Expert Practice Consultant for the California Board of Registered Nursing. Published co-author of two Association of Women's Health and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Evidenced Based Guidelines. Published position statement that was printed in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing in March of 2020. Podium presentation at national AWHONN conference 2020. Synovia panelist speaker for the Joint Commission; meeting the measures symposium April 2021. Expert practice consultant and...

Oakland, California

Midwife, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Labor and Delivery, Fetal Monitoring, High Risk Ob, perinatal HIV, Shoulder dystocia, antepartum, postpartum, postpartum hemorrhage, women's health

I am a doctorally prepared Certified Nurse Midwife in practice for 23 years. I currently practice as a midwife laborist/ hospitalist and faculty member for a large healthcare system in Northern California. I have attended over 10,000 births during my career and practiced in high risk, medium risk and low risk hospitals and birthing centers in New York City, California and Australia. Currently I am the lead midwife faculty member in the Ob/Gyn residency program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California Oakland Medical Center teaching our Obstetric residents both on the labor floor and in didactic sessions and thus am keenly aware of current, evidence based standards of care. I currently supervise 24 Obstetric residents and work closely with my Obstetric, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Neonatal and Anesthesia colleagues. My clinical specialties include hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, infectious disease management in pregnancy (the subject of my doctoral research), fetal heart mon...

Waltham, Massachusetts

Obstetrics & Gynecology, Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine - Labor and delivery (L&D), Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU), Obstetrics, Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM), Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), Birth Injury, Birth Complications, Cesarean Section, Vacuum Assisted Delivery, Fetal Hypoxia, Shoulder Dystocia, Antepartum, Postpartum, Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP), Forceps Delivery

I am a dedicated healthcare professional and nurse clinician with over 23 years of experience at Mass General Brigham, a nationally recognized leader in obstetrical care. My practice is rooted in a high-acuity Level III perinatal center, where I specialize in caring for patients across the antepartum, labor and delivery, postpartum, and neonatal intensive care continuum. I hold board certification in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (RNC-NIC), certification in Electronic Fetal Monitoring (C-EFM), and I am a certified instructor for the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), reflecting advanced expertise in neonatal stabilization and resuscitation.​​ My training includes physiologic birth practices, advanced fetal monitoring, and the management of obstetrical emergencies, including interpretation of fetal heart rate tracings, oxytocin administration, management of hemorrhage and hypertensive disorders, and support for both unassisted, assisted and operative births. I have more than 1...