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Lindsay Pratt-Pettit Page 2

Lindsay Pratt-Pettit, RN, CEN, is a staff writer at Biology Insights covering emergency care and acute injuries. She has worked as an emergency room nurse for 11 years, practicing in a busy city hospital in Tupelo, Mississippi. During her bedside career, she served as a charge nurse and precepted newly graduated nurses through urgent care cases. Pratt-Pettit continues to work occasional per-diem hospital shifts. She earned her BSN from Santa Fe College.

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