Elizabeth Stone, PhD, MSN, CHSE, FAEN

Dr. Stone is an Associate Professor at UNC Chapel-Hill’s School of Nursing, She has over fifteen years of experience as a pediatric emergency nurse and has been teaching at the UNC SON since 2014. She was an Anne Belcher Interprofessional Scholar for 2023/2024. Dr. Stone has a PhD in Nursing Science and an MSN in Healthcare Systems as a Clinical Nurse Educator and Clinical Nurse Leader. Her research interests include the use of immersive virtual reality simulation (VR Sim) and other emerging technologies in health professions education, evaluating student learning outcomes from simulation, emergency department triage accuracy, and pediatric head injury assessment.

Dr. Stone is heavily involved in national and global advocacy through her professional organization, the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA). She has served on ENA’s Position Statement Review Committee, the ENA Institute of Education Advisory Board, and the ENA Research Advisory Council. She is lead author for several ENA Position Statements as well as several multidisciplinary, national policy papers related to pediatric emergency care. In 2019, Dr. Stone was appointed to be the ENA Liason to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (CoPEM) and became a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Nursing.

Dr. Stone has experience lecturing on a national level on VR simulation, interprofessional simulation, simulation quality improvement, pediatric emergency triage and pediatric head injuries. She has experience lecturing on a local and state level on nursing research, evidence-based practice, and informal nursing leadership.

• UNC Chapel-Hill Anne Belcher Interprofessional Scholar Award for 2023/2024
• Inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Nursing (FAEN), 2019
• Sigma Theta Tau International, Gamma Zeta Chapter Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2019
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau International, Gamma Zeta Chapter PhD Excellence Award, 2019
• Beth E. Barba Endowed Scholarship in Nursing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Nursing, 2018.
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (inducted in 2017)
• Blanche Rigsby Moore Scholarship, University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Nursing, 2015-2016.
• Graduate School Dean’s Award Scholarship, University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Nursing, 2015-2017.
• Practice and Professionalism Award, Emergency Nurses Association, North Carolina State Chapter, 2013.
• WakeMed Health & Hospitals “Helton Scholarship” to attend graduate school, 2012
• Emergency Nurse’s Association “Tapestry” scholarship (2012) to attend the ENA Leadership Conference in New Orleans, LA.
• Emergency Nurse’s Association (ENA) scholarship for graduate education (2011-2012).
• WakeMed Health & Hospitals Foundation “Skills Scholarship” (2011 and 2014) which funded attendance at the Emergency Nurses Association Annual Conference.
• WakeMed Health & Hospitals Foundation “Skills Scholarship” (2009) which funded attendance at the American College of Emergency Physicians Pediatric Emergency Medicine Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

 WakeMed Health & Hospitals “Circle of Excellence” award (2009) which honors the top 1% of employees in workforce excellence.

24. *Chantal Howard, C., Silva, S., Waldrop, J., Stone, E., Schafer, B., Gonzalez-Guarda, R. (September 2024, Accepted and in Press). A lethality assessment program in the emergency department: Program implementation and evaluation. Journal of Emergency Nursing.

23. Wolf, L., Delao, A., Clark, P., Malsch, A., Eagles, D., Oiyemhonlan, O., Callihan, M., Stone, E. (July 2024, Accepted and in press). Frailty means falling between the cracks: A qualitative study exploring emergency nurses’ understanding of frailty and its use in informing clinical decision-making related to acuity, care, and disposition. Geriatric Nursing.

22. Peta, D., Stone, E. & Vanairsdaile, S. (May 2024, Accepted and in Press). An introduction to the semantics and statistics behind the U.S. Firearm policy debates. Journal of Emergency Nursing.

21. *Zou, B., Zou, F., Stone, E. & Mi, X. (2023). A deep neural network framework to derive interpretable decision rules for accurate traumatic brain injury identification of infants. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision-Making. 23(1):58. DOI: 10.1186/s12911-023-02155-x

20. Peta, D., +Stone, E., & Vanairsdale, S. (2023). Firearm Safety and Injury Prevention. Position Statement. Emergency Nurses Association. Accessible at: https://www.ena.org/enau/practice-resource-library. In press with the Journal of Emergency Nursing, September 2024.

19. +Stone, E. (2022). Invited Editorial: Is your trauma center peds ready? Journal of Emergency Nursing, 48(1), 2-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jen.2021.11.001.

18. Woodley, L., Skelton, B., Stone, E., Stanley, E., Nance, J., & De La Grana, A. (2022). Experiential learning of childhood growth and development through a pediatric play project. Nursing Education Perspectives. 44(4): 257-258. DOI: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001037

17. +Stone, E. (2020). ENA Position Statement: Weighing All Patients in Kilograms. Emergency Nurses Association. Accessible at: https://www.ena.org/enau/practice-resource-library

16. Davis, E. & Stone, E. (2020) (Chosen as the Feature Article of the Issue, for CE Credit). Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID): Not just picky eating. A case discussion and review of the literature. Journal of Nurse Practitioners. DOI: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2020.08.011

15. *Stone, EL., Davis, L. L., McCoy, T. P., Travers, D., Van Horn, E., & Krowchuk, H. V. (2020). A secondary analysis to inform a clinical decision rule for predicting skull fracture and intracranial injury in children under age 2. Research in Nursing & Health, 43(1), 28–39. https://doi-org.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/10.1002/nur.21993

14. Stone, E. & Davis, LL. (2019). State of the science: Intracranial injury and skull fracture in children under age two. Journal of Emergency Nursing. 45(5):545-550. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2019.03.012

13. Stone, E. (2019) Clinical decision support systems in the emergency department:

opportunities to improve triage accuracy. Journal of Emergency Nursing. 45(2):220-222. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2018.12.016.

12. Snow, S. & +Stone, E. (2019). ENA Position Statement: The Emergency Nurse’s Role in Supporting Pediatric Readiness in the Emergency Department. Accessible at: https://www.ena.org/enau/practice-resource-library

11. Iyer, S. & +Stone, E. (2018). Pediatric quality improvement in the pre-hospital and emergency department worlds: tools and examples to guide change. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal. Doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2018.09.002

10. +Stone, E. (2018). ENA Position Statement: Emergency Nurse Certification. Emergency Nurses Association. Accessible at: https://www.ena.org/enau/practice-resource-library

9. +Stone, E. & Wolf, L. (2017). ENA Position Statement: Triage Qualifications and Competency. Emergency Nurses Association. Accessible at: https://www.ena.org/enau/practice-resource-library

8. Gross, T., Lee, B., & +Stone, E. (2016) American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on

Pediatric Emergency Medicine; American College of Emergency Physicians Pediatric

Emergency Medicine Committee; Emergency Nurses Association Pediatric Committee

(2016). Handoffs: Transitions of Care for Children in the Emergency Department.

Pediatrics. e20162680. doi:10.1542/peds.2016-2680

7. Stone, E. & Glines, M. (2016). When the symptoms don’t make sense: two cases of

myocarditis from a pediatric emergency department. Journal of Emergency Nursing.

43(2): 180-181. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2016.12.018.

6. Griffin E. & Young, T. (2015). Bacterial tracheitis in a 9 month-old child. Journal of

Emergency Nursing. 41(2):109-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2015.01.002.

5. Barata, I., Brown, K.M., Fitzmaurice, L., +Griffin, E.S., Snow, S.K.(2015) American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine; American College of Emergency Physicians Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee; Emergency Nurses

Association Pediatric Committee (2015). Best practices for improving flow and care of pediatric patients in the emergency department. Pediatrics. 135(1):e273-83. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-3425.

4. *Griffin, E. S., Lippmann, S. J., Travers, D. A., & Woodard, E. K. (2014). A matched-cohort

study of pediatric head injuries: Collecting data to inform an evidence-based triage

assessment. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 40(1), 98-104. doi:10.1016/j.jen.2013.07.001

3. Griffin, E.S. (2012). The patient who “broke the mold”: An autistic child in irreversible

shock. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 38(5), 498-499. doi:10.1016/j.jen.2012.05.007

2. Griffin, E. (2011). Conducting triage research: Lessons learned in a pediatric emergency

department. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 37(3), 258-260.

doi:10.1016/j.jen.2011.02.015

1.Young, T., Griffin, E., Phillips, E., Stanley, E., & Hohenhaus, S. M. (2010). Music as distraction in a pediatric emergency department. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 36(5), 472-473. doi:10.1016/j.jen.2010.05.014

• Stone, E., Alderman, J., Apple, B., Baldwin, L., Pendergraft-Horne, K., Thompson, N. & White, J. (2025). Simulating Success: Evaluating the Impact of Replacing 50% of N430 Clinical Hours with High-Quality Simulation on BSN Student Clinical Judgment. University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill School of Nursing Dean’s Pilot Grant, 2025, $7,500 to fund an Educational Research Project.

• Stone, E., Alderman, J., Chalmers, L., & Aliaga, S. (2024). IPEP Design Thinking Workshop. University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill School of Nursing Dean’s Pilot Grant, $7,500 to fund educational scholarship in preparation for a grant proposal related to the integration of health equity content in health professions education at UNC.

• Stone, E., & Aliaga, S. (2023). Virtually There: The Road to a Collaborative Practice-Ready Health Care Workforce. University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill Center for Faculty Excellence / Lenovo Team-Based Instructional Innovation Seed Grant, $50,000 to fund virtual reality (VR) simulation pilots in interprofessional education and to establish a collaborative network for sharing resources related to VR and similar technologies at UNC.

Virtual Reality Simulation, Interprofessional Simulation, Innovative Teaching Methods, Data Science, AI