Emergency Nurse Scholarship Essay

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I believe I, Katelynn Stoops, should be considered for the ED Leadership Scholarship for the 2018 National Emergency Nurses Association Annual Conference. When I began my Emergency Room career, one year ago, I had no experience in emergency medicine. There was a learning curve that I knew I needed to focus on in order to make it in the ED. I began reading articles, reading books to improve my critical car nursing skills, EKG intrepertation skills, stroke amd STEMI/NSTEMI regognition skills and anything else I could find to educate myself on this new, exciting field. I have continued to seek out learning oppertunitiesn to make myself a better nurse and employee. I enjoy that nursung, especially emergency nursing, enables me to be a lifeline learner. I feel that attending the 2018 National Emergency Nurses Association Annual …show more content…

Multiple sessions offered caught my attention that would be benificial to our ED. There is a session about "Building Mental Toughness in the ER" recently we have had multiple cases that have been hard on our team, myself included. I believe that extended knowledge in this area would be benificial. There is also a session called "Documentation Bootcamp" we have be repremanded on our charting lately and I would like tips on how to better my charting, this session would benifit myself and I would be able to share the tips with my peers. There are also various sessions on dealing with critical patients; Fluid resusitation, STEMI, Posterior stroke symptoms, EKG course, Intubating hypotensive patients, Stroke outcome improvements and tips on assissting physicians during advanced procedures. All of these topics would increase my base of knowledge and allow me to help my ED and my peers with our nursing care. This increase in knowledge could increase outcomes which would also aid in increasing pt and family

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