News for Faculty and Staff

Carolina Tennyson, assistant professor, presented the poster "An Interprofessional Approach to Standardizing Family Care during Code Blue Events" during the American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Science Symposium. 

Congratulations to Wendy Perry for being our latest DUSON CISO Reporter of the Month.

Raised in a family of health care professionals, Maritza Ruiz is now carving her own path in the nursing field. While furthering her education at the Duke University School of Nursing, Ruiz, an Air Force reservist, works as an individual mobilization augmentee.

The Duke University School of Nursing Center for Nursing Discovery (CND) has been granted reaccreditation in the area of Teaching/Education by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and Council for Accreditation of Healthcare Simulation Programs.

The Duke University School of Nursing’s ongoing partnership with the Veterans Affair (VA) Health Care System prepares current and future nurse practitioners (NPs) to adequately care for and support the U.S. veteran population. The partnership encompasses the VA Health Care System in Durham as well as ones across the country. 

On Tuesday, Nov. 30, Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos will address social determinants of health, examining historic large-scale health and socially transformative events that have elevated the profile of nurses in safeguarding the health and well-being of the country. The virtual event will be held from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., and registration is required. The event will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation available in Spanish.

Michelle Xue, PhD student, and her advisor Eleanor McConnell, associate professor, have received an award for their Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS) Dissertation application entitled: “Dynamics of Symptom Experience and Functional Recovery in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia after Hip Fracture Surgery.”

The Duke American Association of Men in Nursing (DAAMN) held a successful blood drive.

Duke School of Nursing is pleased to offer a space for the Duke Interprofessional Education community that provides the opportunity for prayer, reflection and meditation. This space is designed to support all religious and nonreligious identities, to foster a sense of belonging and to support a sense of inclusion so our community members feel they can bring their whole selves to work or school.

Hanzhang Xu, assistant professor, and Bei Wu, consulting associate, coauthored "Is living in an ethnic enclave associated with cognitive function? Results from The Population Study of Chinese Elderly (PINE) in Chicago" in "The Gerontologist."

The Fall DUSON Career Fair was held Friday, Oct. 29, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Interprofessional Education Building, room 3280 ABC. There were 14 participating vendors this year.

HyunBin (Binnie) You, PhD student, gave a Zoom presentation on Monday, Nov. 1, at the Duke Palliative Care Grand Rounds with Deepshikha Caran Ashana. The presentation was about “Racial disparities in ICU shared decision making” and presented the preliminary findings of the team’s ongoing research project using rapid qualitative analysis.