Medical- Pulmonary ICU RN- Vanderbilt Hospital

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Amy Tavares, MBA, BSN, RN is an experienced ICU Nurse Expert Witness and Legal Nurse Consultant with a background in critical care nursing and complex patient management. With over 20 years of experience as a nurse in various settings, I have had the privilege of being an ICU RN for over 11 years now and previously was ICU Director but working bedside is where I am currently, maintaining up to date best practice, practicing the current protocols and working with patients who are critically ill every day. Currently working in a teaching hospital where I learn something new every shift and work within a team to provide excellent patient care. I have precepted young nurses over the years and help them understand the complexity of the ICU patient. I provide objective case review and expert analysis in matters involving ICU care, patient deterioration, 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, I 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. Her areas of focus include: • Critical care/ICU nursing • Code blue and rapid response events • Patient monitoring and deterioration • Communication and escalation failures • Documentation review and timeline analysis • Staffing and patient safety concerns