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Nurse Anesthesia Alumna Receives Inaugural Mary Karlet Service Award

An inaugural service award, presented earlier this year, celebrates Shanna Weaver, CRNA’07 for her dedication to pediatric anesthesiology and her long service as a clinical site coordinator for Duke nursing students.

Blue Devil Toastmasters Meeting

Toastmasters provides a supportive environment to practice the skills you need to communicate with confidence. It all starts with a fun club atmosphere where members learn and practice together.

You are warmly invited to experience Toastmasters as our guest -- for free! Join us for a high-impact, one-hour hybrid meeting. Attend in-person or online!

In-person: Conference Room A at Duke Regional Hospital -- use the Behavioral Health Center entrance.

Immersive Nursing Postdoc Partners with Rural Communities

Stephanie Hart reflects on her post-doctoral fellowship at Duke School of Nursing, where she received immersive training in community-engaged rural health research.

Duke Nursing Faculty Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Advancing LGBTQ+ Health

Tonia Poteat, Professor at the Duke School of Nursing, received a Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of a career dedicated to LGBTQ health.

Duke Alumnae Support DNP Scholarship with the Hope Fund

Inspired by alumna Hope Holmes’s DNP journey, faculty and fellow alumna Julee Waldrop started a fund to support DNP scholarship.

Pediatric Lacerations Repaired with Compassion, without Sedation

Facial lacerations in children can be repaired without sedation using a developmentally compassionate approach, according to Duke School of Nursing instructor Becky Carson.

Nursing Pilot Projects Tackle Issues in Rural Health

The Center for Nursing Science and Innovation at Duke University School of Nursing has granted funding for three faculty-led pilot projects that will support health equity in rural settings, from substance use care to surgery.

IDEAS for Hope: Integrating Suicide Prevention into HIV Care in Tanzania

Duke Nursing faculty member Brandon Knettel, PhD, discusses an intervention he led to address high rates of suicide among people living with HIV in Tanzania.

Empathy and Advocacy in Nursing: A Conversation with Padla Yang

Padla Yang, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner student and first-generation American, shares her journey from interpreting for her immigrant parents to advocating for her patients.

Telehealth and Beyond: One Student’s Vision for Rural Mental Health

Tonya Hensley is intimately familiar with the health care needs of rural communities and has translated her background into a career dedicated to improving the mental health of children across rural North Carolina.