ElizabethStoneRN

ElizabethStoneRN

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Hello! I'm a staff nurse in a pediatric emergency department, and also work as a clinical instructor for a BSN program.

General Nursing

Magnet Designation: What's the Attraction?

by ElizabethStoneRN

Magnet designation- what’s the big deal? This article, written from a staff nurse perspective in a hospital which just recently achieved “Magnet”, takes a...

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What is the role of a preceptor?
General Students

"What I Learned From My Preceptor" words of wisdom from the senior…

by ElizabethStoneRN

Preceptors deserve a lot of credit. Being a preceptor, working one-on-one with a nursing student or a new graduate nurse, twelve hours at a time, is often both...

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General Nursing

Lessons Learned as an Expert Nurse Witness

by ElizabethStoneRN

In the past couple of years I have been asked to serve as an expert nurse witness for several medical-legal cases. The downside of consulting for medical-legal...

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Emergency

ABC's of Pediatric Respiratory Assessment: The Basics

by ElizabethStoneRN

Once you become a nurse, “ABCs” no longer refer to the beginning of the alphabet. They are the first critical steps of the primary assessment: Airway,...

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What do you learn in nursing clinicals?
General Students

Lessons Learned During Our First Semester Of Clinicals

by ElizabethStoneRN

Nursing students never cease to amaze me. They absorb so much more than we often realize in the clinical environment. They are constantly listening, observing,...

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