Michelle Myers Glower MSN, NEA-BC

Practicing clinical instructor teaching nursing practice and standards as it applies to today. Board Certified Nursing Executive Advanced, through ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA). The certification allows her to promote excellence in nursing and health care globally. Assigned to the ANA, "Nursing Scope and Standards" Advisory Group, that consults at intervals for recommendations for change that will inform the work group’s thinking.

Services

Testifying Expert Educates attorneys regarding medical facts and issues relating to a case or claim Reviews and analyzes documents and compares them to the allegations Summarizes medical literature Screens for record tampering Defines and evaluates the standards of care practices Evaluates the possible breach of duty on the part of the healthcare practitioner or facility Identifies and retains expert witnesses Organizes medical records and other medically-related litigation materials

Areas of specialty; emergency/trauma, critical care, medical surgical, orthopedics, postoperative monitoring and assessment, falls with injuries, medication errors, triaging, chain of command, use of restraints and bed alarms, notification of changes in condition and alarm fatigue.

Litigation Support Services

Courts have begun to acknowledge that nurses possess specialized knowledge that physicians do not have. The Supreme Court of Illinois recently held that a board certified internal medicine physician was not competent to testify to the standard of care of a nurse. Citing the Amicus Brief submitted by The American Association of Nurse Attorneys. A physician who is not a nurse is no more qualified to offer expert opinion testimony as to the standard of care for nurses than a nurse would be to offer an opinion as to the physician standard of care.

Areas of Expertise

• Cardiology
• Cardiovascular
• Chain of Command
• Competency
• Critical Care
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
• Emergency Medicine
• Emergency Nursing
• Falls
• Healthcare
• Hospital Administration
• Hospitals
• Legal Nurse Consultant
• Long Term Care

• Malpractice
• Medical
• Medical Malpractice
• Medical Records
• Medical Review
• Medical-Legal Issues
• Medication Errors
• Monitoring
• Nurse
• Nursing
• Nursing Home
• Orthopedics
• Pain Management
• Panic Disorder

• Patient Rights
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Peripheral Vascular Surgery
• Personal Injury
• Pharmacy
• Plastic Surgery
• Pre-hospital Care
• Professional Malpractice
• Standard of Care
• Surgery
• Surgical Infections
• Trauma

Profile

The profession of nursing is autonomous from the profession of medicine. The profession of nursing has its own educational and licensing requirements which serve to identify registered nurses and has the responsibility and knowledge to define its standards of practice and indeed has published these standards of care. Therefore, licensed registered nurses are competent to address these standards of nursing practice in the litigation arena. It is the position of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants that when applicable nursing standards need to be established through expert testimony, that the expert shall be a licensed, registered nurse. Further, the only expert competent to testify on clinical and administrative nursing issues is a licensed, registered nurse.

Consulting Practice

All States

More Information

Standards Of Professional Nursing Practice

Resume of Michelle Myers Glower, Litigation Support

Contact Michelle Myers Glower, Expert Witness

Professional Experience

• Western Governors University
• Faculty, College of Health Professions
• Online RN-BSN program
• 2015-Current

• Galen College of Nursing
• St. Petersburg Fl
• Clinical Instructor
• 2012-2015

• Loyola University at Chicago
• Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
• Clinical Instructor
• 2012-2014

NorthShore University Health System-Evanston Hospital Evanston Il. Case Manager 2012 Oct. October 2013

• Saint Mary’s Healthcare, Grand Rapids MI
• Service Line Director, Heart, Vascular, Pulmonary, Orthopedics & Sleep Medicine
• 2008- 2011

• Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest IL
• Director Acute Care Services
• 2006- 2008

• Rush North Shore Medical Center, Skokie IL
• (Now Northshore University)
• Director Critical Care Services
• 2003 2006

• Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst, IL
• Director, Emergency/Trauma Services
• 1997- 2001

• Children’s Memorial Medical Center, Chicago, IL
• Clinical Nurse Manager, Emergency Department,
• 1994-1996

• ENH, Evanston Northshore University, Evanston, IL
• Continuity of Care Coordinator/Utilization Review/Discharge Planner
• 1992-1994

• Highland Park Hospital, Northshore University, Highland Park IL
• Emergency Department Clinical Staff Nurse
• 1983-1992

• Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston IL
• Medical Surgical Staff Nurse
• 1981-1983

Licenses

• Registered Nurse
• Active Illinois, and Florida

Legal Experience & Services

Falls with injuries, Medication errors, failure to use "Chain of Command", Failure to notify physician of significant changes in patients condition, Sexual assault in the ICU with failure to supervise, failure to notify and failure to comply with notification of Department of Professional Regulations. Failure to properly screen upon hire, failure to monitor for compartment syndrome, failure to appropriately assign a triage category, failure to assess for emergent condition, Pre hospital EMS, Dilauded over dose post operative, failure to identify signs and symptoms of Sepsis, post operative recovery and monitoring, burns, munchausean syndrome, restraints, cardiac events, drug diversion and more. I also locate nursing experts in specialty areas that I am qualified, including physician experts. Note: I am not an expert in OB/Labor delivery, NICU or OR.

Affiliations

• AALNC (American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants) 2006-present
• AONE (American Organization of Nurse Executive) 1998-2002
• ANA (American Nurses Association) 1998-present
• MONE (Michigan Organization of Nurse Executives) 2008-2010
• NAON (National Association of Orthopedic Nurses) 2006-2008
• IONL (Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders)
• Advisory Board Company
• Joint Commission
• Agency on Healthcare Research Quality
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid

Qualifications

1. 2013 Nurse Reviewer Nursing Outlook Journal, a Peered review Journal of Nursing 2. 2013 American Nurses Association Appointed to the Care Coordination Quality Measures Panel Advisory Committee 3. 2014 American Nurses Association Appointed to the Nursing Administration Advisory Group, review and revision of the 2010 Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice.

Awards & Honors

• Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau International
• Nurse Executive Advanced Board Certified

Seminars & Training

CEU's upon request

Publications

1. (2013). Preventing complications in patients receiving opioids. American Nurse Today. December 2013. 2. (2011). Nurses’ Charting May Deter Patient from Filing Lawsuit. ED Legal Letter. June. 3. (2009). Videos, Bells and Whistles; Fall Risk or Injury Prevention? A review of your fall related assessment tools and alarms that may alarm you and keep you in or out of court. http://www.rnjournal.com/journal_of_nursing/fall_risk_or_injury_prevention_.htm 4. (2009). Critical Care. Nursing: Legal implication. Principles & Practice, Legal Nurse Consulting 3rd edition. March 2010. 5. (2005). Six Sigma Convert Offers Views on Healthcare Leadership. iSixSigma Healthcare. http://healthcare.isixsigma.com/library/content/c050511a.asp May. 6. (2003). Why you wait. Emergency Department Delays. Pioneer Press. December 7. (2002). Managing Change. Nursing Management Secrets. March. 8. (2002). Point of Care Testing (POC). American Health Consultants, ED Management. Feb. Regular Contributor to American Health Consultants, ED Management, HcPro Case Management 9. (2001). Left without being seen (LWBS) in the ED, its risks and implications. American Health Consultants, ED Management. November. 10. (2001). Managing the Waiting Room, Managers Forum. Journal of Emergency Nursing February 27:1 11. (2001). Nurse Recruitment and Retention. American Health Consultants ED Management, January

Professional References

• Munday & Nathan
• 33 North Dearborn # 2220
• Chicago IL 60602
• (312) 346-5678

Howard M. Zavell, Esq. Dickler, Kahn, Slowikowski & Zavell, Ltd. 85 W. Algonquin Rd., #420 Arlington Heights, IL 60005 (847) 593-5595

Education

MSN/Nursing Education, St. Xavier University, Chicago IL BSN Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago IL. AD Nursing, Truman College Chicago IL.

Articles Published by Michelle Myers Glower MSN, NEA-BC