• Critical Care Medicine
• Emergency Medical Services
• HIPAA
• Hospital & Medical Ethics
• Legal Nurse Consultant
• Medical Staffing
• Nursing
• Wound Care/Pressure Sores
• Wrongful Death

Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:

A: 2020 Doctor of Nursing Practice MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston MA
2009 Master of Science in Nursing Northesastern University, Boston, MA
2005 Associate Degree in Nursing Laboure College, Boston, MA
1997 Bachelor of Arts, English Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
2023 -present ANCC certified Nurse Executive- Advanced
2018 -present ANCC certified National Healthcare Disaster Professional
2018 -present Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician
2005 -present ACLS/ PALS/BLS
2016 -present Trauma Nursing Core Course
2015- present NAEMT/ Trauma Casualty Care Clinical Instructor
2014- present Clinical Nurse Specialist, Massachusetts
2013 – present ANCC certified Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
2005 – present Registered Nurse, Massachusetts
2007 – 2015 ANCC certified Gerontology specialty
2008 - 2015 ANCC certified Medical Surgical specialty

Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:

A: PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
American Association of Ambulatory Care Nurses
Upsilon Lambda chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International
American Nephrology Nurses Association
American Nurses Association
Emergency Nurses Association
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
2022-2023 ENA Emergency Management and Preparedness Committee
NACNS- Chronic Care Task Force Committee

Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:

A: RESEARCH
2022 A Quality Improvement Project: Expedited Workforce Development utilizing shadow opportunity
2022 A Quality Improvement Project: Delivering Formal Education on the Patient with a VAD to Dialysis Staff for Outpatient Treatment
2020 Nurses' perception of humanitarian training post-deployment on plans to redeploy
2018 Analysis of Educational Interventions to Train Hospital Staff to Respond to No-Notice, All-Hazard Emergencies
2014 What's Your Frequency? Dialing up Proficiency in Competency
2014 Clinical Nurse Specialist Orientation Re-Design
2013 Improving the Diagnosis and Treatment of Insomnia vs. Delirium
Chapters and Workbooks
Staples, M. In T. Buttaro & K. Barba (Eds)., Nursing care of the hospitalized older adult. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Alyssa M Payette, Lauren R West, Paul D Biddinger, Kimberly Donovan, William D Driscoll, Andrew Gottlieb, Jacquelyn Nally, David J Reisman, Monica Staples, Erica S Shenoy, Wilton C Levine, Tracking Healthcare Worker Competencies and Automated Active Symptom Surveillance for Ebola Virus Disease, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 4, Issue suppl_1, Fall 2017, Page S169, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.300

M. Staples, K. Beauchamp S. Gavaghan, P. Wrigley C. Ryan, Development of a Clinical Nurse Specialist Orientation Process to Onboard New Clinical Nurse Specialists. February 2014, Clinical Nurse Specialist 28(2):E13-E13

Conference Presentations
Staples, Monica. Nurses' Perception of Humanitarian Training Post-Deployment on plans to Redeploy. International Council of Nurses 2023 Congress, July 1-5, 2023 Montreal, Canada

Staples, Monica. Nurses' Perception of Humanitarian Training Post-Deployment on plans to Redeploy. WADEM 22nd Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine. May 9-12, 2023 Killarney, Ireland

Staples, Monica. A Quality Improvement Project: Expedited Workforce Development utilizing shadow opportunity. AAACN Annual Conference, April 11-15, 2023 Orlando, Florida

Staples, Monica; Hickey, Maryclare; Melansen, Frank; Montoya, Kristyn; Bristol, Jenna; McKane, Caitlin. A Quality Improvement Project: Delivering Formal Education on the Patient with a VAD to Dialysis Staff for Outpatient Treatment. Nephrology Nursing Journal. Mar/Apr2022, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p175-175. 1/3p. ANNA National Symposium 2022.

Alyssa Payette, BS, Lauren R. West, MPH, Paul Biddinger, Kimberly Donovan, William D. Driscoll, Andrew Gottlieb, Jacky Nally, David Reisman, Monica Staples, Erica S. Shenoy, MD, PhD and Wilton Levine, MD. Electronic Data Capture Tool for Tracking Healthcare Worker Competencies for Providing Care to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Patients and Automated Active Symptom Surveillance. ID Week 2018.

Staples M, Nally J, Reisman D, Wright P, Shenoy E, Biddinger PD. Response Team Training in High-Risk Environments. 2017 ASM Biothreats Conference: Research, Response, and Policy Home Washington D.C. Feb 6-8.

Staples M, Nally J, Reisman D, Wright P, Shenoy E, Biddinger PD. Team Training in High Risk Environments. Disaster Health Education Symposium at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Bethesda, Maryland. 2016

Staples, M. (March, 2014) Development Of A CNS Orientation Process To Onboard New CNSs. Poster presentation at the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist Annual Conference March 6-8.

Staples, M. (February, 2010) Talk to Me: Interviewing Tips in a Tough RN Job Market. Upsilon Lambda chapter of Sigma Theta Tau sponsored event at the MGH IHP. February 27th,

Panel presenter: Acute Care Best Practices 65Plus Annual New and Emerging Leaders Seminar, Massachusetts General Hospital. April 24-25, 2009

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: 3

Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?

A: Emergency Medicine- Triage, trauma care

Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?

A: 1

Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?

A: 2

Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?

A: 1

Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)

A:
Consulting/Expert Services:
Includes but not limited to:
 Medical record review
 Expert in Nursing Standard of Care
 Reports: timelines, chronologies, summaries, narratives
 Research
 Deposition and trial preparation
 Interpret medical records and reports
 Provide education and clarification of medical/nursing issues to assist legal team
 Prepare timeline of facts and chronology of events
 Assist in the discovery process and identify missing records
 Perform literature search
Expert Services:
 Deposition ‐
 Trial ‐

Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?

A:
Consulting/Expert Services: $200.00/hour
Includes but not limited to:
 Medical record review
 Expert in Nursing Standard of Care
 Reports: timelines, chronologies, summaries, narratives
 Research
 Deposition and trial preparation
 Interpret medical records and reports
 Provide education and clarification of medical/nursing issues to assist legal team
 Prepare timeline of facts and chronology of events
 Assist in the discovery process and identify missing records
 Perform literature search

Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?

A:
Consulting/Expert Services: $200.00/hour
Includes but not limited to:
 Medical record review
 Expert in Nursing Standard of Care
 Reports: timelines, chronologies, summaries, narratives
 Research
 Deposition and trial preparation
 Interpret medical records and reports
 Provide education and clarification of medical/nursing issues to assist legal team
 Prepare timeline of facts and chronology of events
 Assist in the discovery process and identify missing records
 Perform literature search

Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?

A: Expert Services: $250.00/hour
 Deposition ‐ $250 per hour w/4-hour minimum
 Trial ‐ $250 per hour w/8-hour minimum

Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?

A: Expert Services: $250.00/hour
 Deposition ‐ $250 per hour w/4-hour minimum
 Trial ‐ $250 per hour w/8-hour minimum

Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)

A: Required Retainer: $500
Travel Expenses: TBD
Includes but not limited to:
 Hotel stays
 Meal reimbursement
 Mileage assessed at 57.5¢ per mile

Available Upon Request