Medical- Pulmonary ICU RN- Vanderbilt Hospital

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Amy Tavares, MBA, BSN, RN is a Registered Nurse with over 20 years of clinical nursing experience, including more than 11 years in adult Intensive Care Unit practice. She has experience in critical care nursing, complex patient management, and high-acuity inpatient settings. In addition to the bedside she has held several nursing leadership roles, most recently serving as ICU Director and currently practices in a Medical-Pulmonary Intensive Care Unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a bedside nurse. Her current bedside practice includes care of critically ill patients and ongoing application of established clinical protocols and institutional standards of care. She has experience precepting newly hired nurses and supporting clinical development in the ICU setting, including recognition of patient deterioration and escalation of care. She provides clinical record review and case analysis in matters involving intensive care nursing practice, including assessment of patient deterioration, standards of nursing care, communication and escalation processes, documentation practices, and sequence-of-events reconstruction in adverse clinical outcomes. Her areas of focus include: Intensive care unit nursing practice Code blue and rapid response events Patient monitoring and clinical deterioration Communication and escalation of care Documentation review and timeline analysis Staffing considerations and patient safety in acute care settings Provide objective case review and expert analysis in matters involving ICU care, patient deterioration, drip titration and management, standards of care, communication failures, documentation issues, critical events, pulmonary patients, cardiac, renal, sepsis, preventing hospital falls, code STROKE, and code BLUE patients. With extensive bedside experience in high-acuity environments she can help attorneys identify clinically significant details within medical records, evaluate deviations from standards of care, and understand the sequence of events leading to adverse outcomes.