EDUCATION
Wanda Marley, RN, BSN, CRNA, MS, PhD is owner of Rocky Mountain Medical Legal Consultation, Inc., located in Fort Collins, Colorado. She has 15 years of combined collegiate and professional education, all of which is relevant to her business as a forensic toxicologist and physiologist.
She received training to be a Registered Nurse at Georgia Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta, GA. After this three-year diploma program, she continued on to receive a Bachelor’s degree in nursing at the University of South Alabama. A desire to increase her responsibilities led her to receive training in nurse anesthesia at the Mayo School of Health Related Sciences. This two-year labor-intensive program led to her successful completion of the National Certifying Exam to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). A Masters degree was later earned at Kansas University, through a two-year course involving on-site seminars and computer-enabled didactic studies. These studies, along with her thesis focused primarily on the pharmacology and toxicology of psychoactive drugs. She graduated summa cum laude with her PhD in physiology from Colorado State University, which required a seven-year program of didactics and intensive research.
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CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Wanda began her professional career as a nurse in medical, surgical, and cardiac intensive care units. Emergency nursing in Mobile, Alabama provided a rich foundation of knowledge and experience in caring for patients under the acute and chronic effects of ethanol. Patients who had consumed illicit drugs embodied a large proportion of her experience. These drugs included heroin and other narcotics, phencyclidine (PCP), peyote (cactus), psilocybin (mushrooms), cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, lysergic acid diethylamine (LSD), methamphetamines, and anabolic steroids.
After practicing as an RN in critical care areas for five years, Wanda trained at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). She continued to deliver anesthesia at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins for 12 years. This practice involved the hands-on administration of:
volatile anesthetic gases, narcotics, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and other central nervous system stimulants and depressants . Multiple other drugs were administered to thousands of patients, including: Ketamine, dopamine and serotonin agonists and antagonists, depolarizing and non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, pseudocholinesterase inhibitors, anticholinergics, drugs that modulate the autonomic nervous system (cardio-selective and vasoactive drugs; bronchodilators), drugs affecting gastric motility, glucocorticoids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
In addition to the administration of appropriate drugs, her practice of nurse anesthesia involved the monitoring and maintenance of normal physiology.
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