About
Jose Rangel, DNP-RN, PHN, CEN, MICN, LNC
Doctor of Nursing Practice and Emergency Department leader with two decades in health care — across emergency care, flight nursing, critical care transport, public health, and trauma nursing. Currently managing a busy 53-bed, 96,000-visit-a-year Emergency Department.
Why a clinician, and why this one.
Jose founded Nova Health Consulting to bring bedside judgment directly into litigation: independent medical examinations, expert witness liaison, and standard-of-care analysis grounded in what actually happens in a high-acuity unit, not just what the chart says happened. He remains clinically active — the analysis reflects current practice, not practice as it was a decade ago. Trilingual in English, Spanish, and ASL, and licensed across California, New York, and Arizona.
DNP
Doctor of Nursing Practice, 2023
RN
California, New York, Arizona
MICN
Mobile intensive care nurse, San Diego County
CEN · LNC
Certified Emergency Nurse; Legal Nurse Consultant
Career
Where the judgment comes from
Legal Nurse Consultant, Managing Director
Bridging medical records and legal strategy on malpractice and personal injury matters, including independent medical examinations, standard-of-care analysis, and expert witness procurement.
Emergency Department Nurse Manager II
Directs 24/7 operations of a 53-bed Emergency Department serving 96,000 annual visits with a staff of 280. Owns departmental budget, staffing models, employee injury reporting, service recovery, and medication-discrepancy review.
ED Nursing Supervisor · Trauma Team Lead
Charge nurse and Trauma Team Lead directing ED and trauma throughput for forty direct reports, with evidence-based practice initiatives and service recovery.
Flight Nurse — Bell 429 & EC135
Adult and pediatric intubation, trauma chest tube placement, ventilator management, and surgical cricothyrotomy in critical air transport.
Critical Care Transport Nurse
ICU-level interfacility transport including ECMO, Impella, and LVAD patients, managing vasoactive drips and mechanical ventilation in transit.
Emergency Room Clinical Nurse
Relief charge nurse and triage lead. Emergency care in a medically underserved community with complex medical, psychiatric, and social presentations.
Clinical Instructor — BSN and ADN programs
Supervised nursing students through clinical rotations, didactic instruction, and simulation labs. Teaching is why the reports read clearly to non-clinicians.
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Full curriculum vitae, complete certification list, and references available on request.