News for Faculty and Staff
- March 18, 2024As we embrace Women’s History Month, we proudly highlight our transformative Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) program. This program prepares advanced practice nurses with the skills and expertise necessary to provide primary and specialty medical care for women.
- March 15, 2024Shana Freeman, WHNP-BC, PHN, is studying to earn a Postgraduate Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) degree at DUSON.
- March 1, 2024The New England Journal of Medicine has published a study by Duke University School of Nursing professors Dr. Schenita Randolph, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN and Dr. Ragan Johnson, DNP, MSN, APRN-BC in which the two studied the feasibility of integrating salon stylists, edutainment videos, and PrEP navigators to help educate Black women on the benefits of PrEP (preexposure prophylaxis) in preventing HIV infections. This innovative new approach to HIV/AIDS prevention can be found in the Journal’s February 29th issue.
- February 29, 2024Ashley Brand chose DUSON after searching for a nursing school with an excellent reputation.
- February 27, 2024The Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) recently conducted its first-ever White Coat Ceremony for students enrolled in the Nurse Anesthesia DNP Program.
- February 26, 2024Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) is partnering with the Social Mission Alliance (SMA) to cohost SMA’s 2024 conference here in Durham at the Washington Duke Inn from April 8-10.
- February 22, 2024Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON)’s global partnerships offer students and faculty unique opportunities for scholarship, clinical experience, research, and professional growth. Over the last seven years, Associate Research Professor Susan Silva, PhD, who began her pre-retirement in February, has played a key role in a collaboration with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) School of Nursing and Public Health in Durban, South Africa, studying evidence-based care and planning quality improvement projects.
- February 22, 2024Gyuhyun Lee, a DUSON DNP-CRNA student, is on a mission to provide fair and culturally competent healthcare for all.
- February 13, 2024Feyisetan Idowu, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, RN, has been practicing her nursing skills since she was 4 years old. Now a student at DUSON, she is putting that practice to work.
- February 13, 2024Katia Anello, BSN, RN, is passionate about bridging the multigenerational gap between nurses and bringing smiles to patients’ faces.
- February 12, 2024In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 1.3 million people were living in nursing homes, and that number is expected to double by 2050. The CDC also reports that one in 10 nursing home residents will develop pressure injuries, or bedsores, a medical condition where skin and tissue breaks down because of prolonged pressure from sitting or lying long periods of time, introducing the risk of serious infection and even death.
- February 7, 2024Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) continues to garner top recognition for its distance-based Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program specialties, according to the 2024 Online Nursing School rankings from U.S. News & World Report.