Pia Spitzer, MSN/MSHCA, PHN, RN, FN-CSp Expert Witness
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Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

General Specialties:

Long Term Care and Nursing Administration

Keywords/Search Terms:

Elder abuse, Elder neglect, Nursing Home abuse, Nursing professional malpractice, hospital, Home Health, Assisted Living, Nursing administration, Medication Errors, Nurse, Rehabilitation nurse, Legal Nurse Consultant, Nurse Life Care planning, Skilled Nursing Facility

Education:

MSN/MSHCA, California State University Long Beach; BA, University of California Riverside; BSN , Samuel Merritt University

Years in Practice:

23

Additional Information

Ms. Spitzer is a Legal Nurse Consultant. She is an Experienced Chief Nurse Executive, Hospital Director, and Corporate Consultant to multiple Skilled Nursing Facilities in the past, Director of Quality and Risk in a Rehabilitation hospital and experienced in all aspects of Administrative and internal clinical operations. Ms. Spitzer has 21 years of healthcare experience in various settings and has opined on multiple nursing issues as a Consulting Expert and as an Expert Witness. Ms. Spitzer has extensive knowledge of State and Federal Regulations as they apply to Long Term Care, acute care, and rehabilitation. As a Corporate Consultant, she was heavily involved in all aspects of clinical operations including survey preparations, plans of correction write ups, writing and updating policies and procedures, staffing issues, educating nursing staff on clinical skills, elder abuse allegations investigations and reporting, standards of care, and all other aspects of clinical care. Ms. Spitzer is available for merit reviews, case analysis for standards of care issues, medical chronologies, all aspects of discoveries and interrogatories, depositions, expert witness reports, arbitrations/mediations, and court testimonies. All initial consultations are free.