Joyce Stone

Registered Nurse

Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital

Glasgow , MT

09.2007 - Current

I currently am employed full time as a Staff RN at a 27 bed Critical Access Hospital in rural Montana. The facility is able to offer orthopedics, general surgery, OB/GYN coverage, a full Med/Surg unit that includes ICU coverage, as well as a 6 bed ER with Level 4 Trauma designation.
The facility does not always have a medical provider in the building, they are on call and must respond to a patient within 30 minutes of being notified of an emergency. Nursing will manage patient care until such time as a medical provider, either an MD or a PA is present to assume care of the patient. As such, I am well trained in all the areas we cover.
As a Staff RN I am competent in the following areas:
Emergency Department to include basic EKG interpretation, critical care assessment and care implementation, non emergent needs, etc.
Med/Surg
Labor/Deliver and Postpartum
ICU care to include a majority of cardiac medication drips but not all, metabolic conditions including diabetic emergencies and insulin drips. Before Covid 19, we would fly out ventilated patients. Since Covid 19, I did learn to run and manage ventilators when we were unable to fly a patient to a higher level of care for several hours.
Wound and Ostomy Care.
Clinical nurse supervisor before returning to the Staff Nurse position
Charge Nurse
Nurse Preceptor to nursing students, brand new nurses and new RN staff that have prior nursing experience. I typically precept a nursing student or two each semester of college: spring and fall. During summer I typically precept at least 1 new graduate RN throughout their orientation.

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