Nursing Administration Expert Witnesses in Colorado

Nursing Administration, General Surgery - AAAHC Surveyor, Professor of Nursing at Sacramento City College, Operating Room Nurse, Ambulatory Surgery Nurse, Legal Nurse Consultant, Life Care Planning, Perioperative Services Administration, Post Anesthesia Nurse, Procedural Sedation Nurse, GI procedures RN, CNOR, RN, Med Surg, Medical Devices

Clinical Experiences include:  Medical Surgical Nursing  Shock / Trauma Intervention  Procedural Services  Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative Care  Procedural Sedation  Clinical Educator Operational / Leadership Experiences include:  2003 Iraqi War Veteran  Multi-site surgical venues - UC Davis Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente  Level 1 Trauma academic medical center – UC Davis Medical Center  Military – Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, Operation Iraqi Freedom  Fee for service ambulatory surgery and procedural services – ABSMC Surgery Center  Clinic management – Perioperative Medicine Clinic, Kaiser Permanente -As a procedural department administrator and clinician, I have personally supervised the safe care in and around various procedures and operating room venues for 18 years, totaling approximately 300,000 individual patient encounters. As a Registered Nurse, Operating Room Manager, Director, and Administrator, I have extensive experience with reg...

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Hospital Administration, Nursing Administration - Joint Commission Surveyor (Retired), Healthcare Accreditation, Medication Sterile Compounding, Critical Care Nursing, Environment of Care, Patient Safety, High Level Disinfection, Adverse Event Investigations, Ambulatory Surgery, Sterile Instrument Reprocessing, Patient Blood Management

Ms. Evans served as a healthcare accreditation surveyor for The Joint Commission (TJC), and Associate Director in Standards Development and Interpretation for Joint Commission International (JCI), with over 10 years experience with The Joint Commission Enterprise. Ms. Evans also served as a healthcare compliance inspector for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment prior to joining TJC. In these positions, Ms. Evans conducted compliance surveys of hospitals seeking accreditation; investigation of complaints and adverse events; led multidisciplinary teams of surveyors for all types of hospitals including academic medical centers, community hospitals, critical access hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and outpatient centers; served as project director for standards manual revisions and development of new accreditation standards; led accreditation project teams of internal and external subject matter experts; and acted as an accreditation standards interpretation ...