Assistant Dean, Pre-Licensure Program & Associate Professor
Dr. Stone is Assistant Dean of Prelicensure Programs and 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) in both nursing and interprofessional education, innovative teaching methods, pediatric emergency triage, 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, 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.
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
Funding, external
Funding, internal
Virtual Reality Simulation, Interprofessional Simulation, Innovative Teaching Methods, Data Science, AI