Marilyn E McCullum

Professional Summary

Marilyn E McCullum is a skilled emergency and trauma nurse dedicated to the highest standard of excellence in nursing practice. She is accomplished in delivering multicultural patient care, with exceptional proficiency in Latin culture and bilingual in Spanish, which she learned from time spent living in Mexico City. McCullum is a strong patient advocate and excels in communication between physicians, patients, and ancillary disciplines. She is knowledgeable in standards of care and practices across the United States.

Core Skills

McCullum's core skills encompass a wide range of areas, including age-appropriate care and treatment modalities from premature infants to geriatrics, airway management and assessment of vital signs across various patient populations, COVID-19 patient care, peripheral intravenous (IV) placement and infusions, escalation of changes in patient condition and critical results, telemetry and cardiac rhythm analysis, genitourinary patient care, fall risk protocols and prevention, medical devices and their daily use in patient care, myocardial infarction (MI) and emergent care of STEMI and NSTEMI patients, orthopedics (including splints, finger traps, and slings), and stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA) and mimics.

Education

McCullum obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Indiana University Southeast in 2012 and an Associate of Science in Nursing from Kentucky State University in 2011.

Professional Experience

McCullum has held various positions in the field of emergency and trauma nursing. She has been a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Panel Member at HealthStream since January 2023 and an Expert Practice Consultant for the California Board of Registered Nursing since September 2022. She has worked as an Emergency Room Staff Nurse at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Rosa, California, since January 2018, and previously held the same position at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital from November 2015 to January 2018.

McCullum has also worked as a travel nurse in emergency rooms across the United States, including St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton, California; Hazel Hawkins Hospital in Hollister, California; Sunrise Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California; Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Woodford, Vermont; Wilson Medical Center in Wilson, North Carolina; St. Vincent's Infirmary in Little Rock, Arkansas; University of Louisville Healthcare in Louisville, Kentucky; and Floyd Memorial Hospital in New Albany, Indiana.

Prior to her nursing career, McCullum worked as an Emergency Room Technician at Norton Suburban Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, from September 2005 to May 2011.

Publications

McCullum has authored several publications, including articles in Law360, the American Journal of Nursing, The Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting, The Bar Journal, and other legal and nursing journals. Her publications cover topics such as wandering patients, legal nurse consulting, stigmatizing language in electronic health records (EHRs), triage assessment and the Emergency Severity Index (ESI), nurses and criminal behavior, stroke management in the emergency room, fall risk prevention, and the role of legal nurse consultants in independent medical examinations.

Speaking Engagements

McCullum has been a speaker at various events, including "Pearls of ED Documentation for Plaintiff and Defense" at The Attorney's Resource in Gaylord, Michigan, in August 2024. She has also presented on "Defensive Documentation" as an intradepartmental elective learning for continuing education units (CEUs) at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Rosa, California. Additionally, she spoke on "What You Have Always Wanted to Know about Publishing a Peer-Reviewed Article but Have Been Too Afraid to Ask" at the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants Annual Forum in Louisville, Kentucky, in April 2023.

Professional Recognition

In 2022, McCullum's article "Fall Risk Prevention: A Comprehensive Endeavor," published in The Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter 2022, was recognized as the Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting Article of the Year.

Professional Affiliations

McCullum is affiliated with several nationally recognized professional organizations, including the Emergency Nurses Association, the Society of Trauma Nurses, and the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. She is also involved in hospital-based committees, such as the Intimate Partner Violence/Family Violence Prevention Committee, the Patient Satisfaction Committee, and the Trauma Committee.

Certifications, Licensure, and Additional Skills

McCullum holds several certifications and licenses, including Board Certification as an Emergency Nurse (CEN), bilingual certification in English and Spanish, and a California Registered Nurse License (#845685). She is also certified in Advanced Cardiopulmonary Life Support (ACLS), Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS), and various other specialized certifications, such as the Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC), the National Institute of Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Pediatrics Advanced Life Support (PALS), the Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), and Ultrasound-Guided IV Placement.

Additionally, McCullum has expertise as a Cheetah Nicom Noninvasive Monitoring System Superuser, a Defensive Documentation Topic Presenter, a Glucometry Certified and Superuser, an Istat Certified and Superuser, and in Managing Assaultive Behavior (MAB).