Dr. Charla Watkins
Fayetteville, AR 72703
Office: 479-485-3322
Dr. Charla Watkins holds a doctor of nursing practice (DNP) as a psychiatric nurse practitioner from University of Tennessee Memphis and she is dual board certified through ANCC as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC) and a family nurse practitioner (FNP-BC). She has 25 years of experience as a forensic nurse examiner specializing in cases of child sexual assault and abuse cases of children, adolescents and adults and she is a trained forensic interviewer. Dr. Watkins is a neutral objective fact finder who values finding truth though the evidence and she has extensive experience in providing expert testimony, testifying approximately 200 times in her career. She was an expert in a Dartmouth University rape case in 2014, working with the Williams & Connolly Law firm out of Washington, D.C.
Dr. Watkins also has extensive experience in working psychiatric medical malpractice cases and she has authored five chapters in forensic text books, including:
Watkins, C. & Turvey, B. (2023) “Forensic Nursing: Objective Victim Examination” in Turvey, B. (Ed) Forensic Victimology, 3rd Ed. San Diego: Elsevier Science
Turvey, B.E., and Petherick, W. (2009) Forensic Victimology Examining Violent Crime Victims in Investigative and Legal Contexts (1st Ed). Burlington, MA: Academic Press ELSEVIER
Chapter 4: Forensic Nursing: Approaching the Victim as a Crime Scene
Author: Charla M. Jamerson, BSN, RN, BC, SANE-A, CMI, III
Turvey, B.E., and Savino, J.O. (2011)
Rape Investigation Handbook (2nd Ed). Waltham, MA: Academic Press ELSEVIER
Chapter 12: Sexual Assault Examination and Reconstruction
Author: Charla Jamerson and Brent Turvey
In 2004 she received the Washington Regional Eagle Award for Outstanding health Care Leadership and in 2015 she received the Doctor of Nursing Practice Clinical Award for outstanding clinical judgement and ethical decision making. Her doctoral research is in Human Sex Trafficking and she works to educate other healthcare staff in emergency departments and urgent care clinics to appropriately identify and report cases of suspected human trafficking. Dr. Watkins ha a private practice in Fayetteville, Arkansas where she see's patients across the lifespan for medication management, psychotherapy and education of mental health treatment and conducts casework for cases across the United States.
- Child Abuse
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Community Mental Health
- Elder Abuse
- Human Trafficking
- Nursing
- Psychopharmacology
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Assault
- Workplace Violence
- Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:
- A: Charla Watkins, DNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, BC
Dual board certified through ANCC as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a Family Nurse Practititoner - Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
- A: Academy of Forensic Nursing
- Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
- A: Strong teaching background in teaching nursing school
Speaking experience in psychiatric mental health, cases of sexual assault and human sex trafficking - 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: greater than 50 times
- Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Child molestation cases
Sexual assault cases in children, adolescence and adults
Forensic Interviewing
Psychiatric Nursing medical malpractice - Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
- A: 70%
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
- A: 30%
- Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
- A: Only a couple of times as I usually testify in person the majority of the time
- Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
- A: over a year ago
- Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
- A: over 200 times
- Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
- A: Over 200 times
- Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
- A: 25 years
- Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
- A: Consulting
Case Work in noted areas of expertise
Psychiatric Evaluations - Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
- A: $200/hr
- Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
- A: $200/hr
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
- A: $200/hr
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
- A: $200/hr
- Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
- A: All travel costs
telephone calls in 15 minute increments of time billed
Copies that need to be made for review
Binders to place case file in
Available Upon Request