Happy Holidays & Happy New Year

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year

Duke University School of Nursing has had a very successful school year, and its entire community is looking forward to a productive 2017.

First, we’d like to thank our faculty, staff, students, alumni and community partners for their hard work and dedication that helped us have another remarkable year.

This year we moved up in our national rankings. We were named the fourth best graduate nursing school in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report and the fifth best online graduate nursing program. We also celebrated DUSON receiving more than $4.8 million in annual funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), making us ninth among nursing schools engaged in NIH-funded research.

The Center for Nursing Research created an avenue – the DUSON Shark Pool – for nurse researchers, educators and clinical practitioners to pitch their ideas for the chance to receive money to fund their work. Contestants had 30 minutes to present their projects to a panel of shark investors representing Duke University Health System, Duke University and the School of Nursing. All of the contestants were chosen to receive seed money to invest in their projects.

This year our faculty, staff and students took to task the DUSON Strong commitment of becoming the most fit school of nursing in the nation. While working in teams to complete various virtual races, two staff members trained to achieve monumental goals. Glenn Setliff, director for Information Technology for DUSON, completed his first half-marathon with his twin sister who survived a brain aneurysm, and Keysha Hall, staff assistant, ran her first marathon in the historical 46th New York City Marathon.

The School embarked on a new global health course. Twenty-one students representing Barbados, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands and the Philippines joined seven DUSON students for the inaugural two-week N555 course entitled “Exploring Patterns of Global Health and Illness.” The program facilitated bi-directional learning so that DUSON students could go out to see the world and international students could come to DUSON to experience this community and engage in cross-cultural learning.

This fall the School began a new staff development program – the DUSON Emerging Leaders Program – to  prepare staff for career advancement. The program was created through a collaboration between DUSON Human Resources and the Duke University Learning and Organization Development Office. The first cohort consists of 11 staff members representing various areas throughout the School, including Research, Global Health, Academics and Finance and Administration.

The School’s Master of Science in Nursing Program launched the first adult endocrinology specialty for nurse practitioners in the United States. The specialty offers students enrolled in the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care, Women’s Health and Family Nurse Practitioner majors the opportunity to have advanced training in the care of individuals with diabetes and other endocrine conditions.

DUSON also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the PhD in Nursing Program. Created in response to both the School’s growth in research as well as producing the next generation of nurse researchers and faculty members, the program has grown tremendously in its faculty size, research focus and student enrollment since its inception.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg of our greatest accomplishments. As we reflect and celebrate this season, we are truly thankful and proud. And we look forward with anticipation to the opportunities that we – as a family and a community – will share in 2017.

We encourage you to take time to reflect and celebrate this holiday season. And here’s to wishing you and yours a peaceful and relaxing holiday season and a Happy New Year!

(Click here to see DUSON Winter Holiday Hours)

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