More than 220 attendants within and outside the Duke University School of Nursing logged onto Zoom on February 2 to hear more about “The Future of Nursing: A Look Back and A Look Ahead,” when the School presented its 58th annual Harriet Cook Carter Lecture.

This year's featured speaker was Susan B. Hassmiller, senior adviser for Nursing for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and director of the Foundation's Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, in partnership with AARP. Her presentation preceded a three-person panel discussion.

Several faculty, staff devote time researching aspects of disease, its treatment.

About 100,000 Americans live with sickle cell disease (SCD), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One of every 365 of those Americans are of Black or African American births.

Numerous faculty and staff at the Duke University School of Nursing have made exploring SCD and the patients it affects a research priority.

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students, faculty and staff from around Duke have been learning about mindfulness and meditation through a Koru Mindfulness course co-hosted by the Duke University School of Nursing.

Dominique Bulgin, PhD’19, currently serves as a consulting associate and postdoctoral fellow with the Duke National Clinician Scholars Program.

Tolu O. Oyesanya, PhD, RN, assistant professor, has been with the Duke University School of Nursing since 2018 and teaches in the PhD Program.

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Applications are now being accepted for Duke Health's Primary Care Preceptor Development Mini-Fellowship Program, administered by the Duke Physician Assistant Program. This mini-fellowship offers clinician educators (licensed PAs, NPs, MDs, and DOs who serve as primary care providers), a unique opportunity to learn from expert faculty at one of the nation's leading academic medical centers.

Ran Xiao, assistant professor, co-published “Electroencephalography measures of relative power and coherence as reaching skill emerges in infants born preterm" for Scientific Reports. Xiao provides equal contribution and shares co-first authorship of the paper.

The following second-semester ABSN students were recently approved by the D-CHIPP Executive Committee to become student affiliates: Diana Hope Bennett, Tomi Jegede, Harmeet Kaur,