Vickie Halstead RN, CVNS, CCRN, CEN, CLNC combines her 35 years of nursing experience with her expertise and knowledge to provide precision consulting/expert witness services to your organization. She is currently working in an Emergency Department at a Level I Trauma hospital.
Ms. Halstead's experience includes 18 years emergency nursing, 8 years flight nursing, 34 years critical care nursing, and 25 years of teaching, with all areas including pediatric patients. She is equipped to offer expert testimony and consultation for a wide variety of medical cases. Her 8 years of independent legal nurse consultant experience involves medical malpractice cases, with testimony at trial and deposition. She is interested in expanding her legal consulting practice to these area of law: product liability, personal injury, and criminal law where health/injury is a factor.
Background
Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:A: Registered Nurse in Minnesota, Cardiovascular Nurse Specialist, Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, Certified Emergency Nurse, Certified Critical Care Nurse
Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
A: American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
A: 25 years of numerous nursing lectures at hospitals and at seminars on these topics: Trauma, Cardiac Patients, Electrocardiography, Hot and Cold Injuries, Aortic Trauma, Assessment of Critically Ill Children, Pediatric Trauma, Hemodynamic Monitoring, Strokes, Heart Attacks, Heart Failure, Shock, Valvular Heart Disease, Respiratory Emergencies, Abdominal Emergencies, Metabolic Emergencies, Lab Values
Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
A: NO
Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: 7
Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
A: Emergency care, Frostbite, Anaphylaxis, Spinal Cord Injury, Medication Error, Pediatric respriatory arrest, pressure ulcers
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: 6 cases
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: 1 case
Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: once
Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
A: July 1999
Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
A: 2
Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
A: 2
Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
A: 7 years
Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
A: consulting, research, reports, identify standards of care, indentify injuries and damages, analyze expert testimony, prepare chronologies of medical events, provide initial case screenings for merit
