Student Tallent Wins Duke Pediatric Heart Award

Sarah Tallent, DNP student, won one of the inaugural Duke Pediatric Heart Center Impact Awards for her work to implement a safe, secure virtual rounding process to include patients’ caregivers who have competing demands on their time and cannot be present for rounds (work, caring for non-hospitalized siblings of patients, etc). Tallent’s implementation of her DNP project “Virtual Rounding: Extending the radius of family centered care in the Duke PCICU” gave families a reliable mechanism to ensure on-going communication with their child’s care team even before the hospital went on COVID visiting restrictions and virtual rounding has been adopted as a standard communication option for families of patients in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Rémi Hueckel, associate professor, is Tallent's DNP project committee chair.