Celebrate the fourth ABSN semester cohort during the ABSN virtual Recognition Luncheon. Students, faculty, and staff will be recognized for their contributions. The event will be Monday from noon to 1 p.m. on Zoom . 

Some answers to frequently asked questions regarding travel and the COVID-19 Addendum to the Duke policy have been posted. The FAQs discuss the Travel Policy and Addendum as well as travel restrictions and Duke's guidelines regarding its community traveling this season. 

DUSON greatly values input from its graduating students to help ensure we’re providing the highest quality educational experiences, and it only takes a few minutes to evaluate your Duke experience by completing an anonymous survey. For the link, please check your Duke email for invitations to provide program feedback from Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Valerie Howard and your assistant dean.

It is that time again! Each year we accept nominations from all of our community members for the DAISY AWARD; given out each May at the DUSON Awards Ceremony. This past May, we congratulated Nicolena Dewitt, MSN'20, Midge Bowers, associate professor, and Alyssa Lantiere, clinical instructor (all of whom are pictured).

The Chancellor’s Service Fellowship application is due on February 12 at midnight. The Chancellor’s Service Fellowship is a one-year interdisciplinary, mentored fellowship program focused on health-related community service and leadership development. The Fellowship program is designed to provide health services to underserved populations by facilitating opportunities for students to:

Faculty and students presented at the International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG) 2020 World Congress. This was a virtual meeting held from November 13 to 15.

Here are the students and faculty that were involved:

DNP student Benoy Pullukalayil wrote the op-ed "COVID-19 implication on flu vaccination rates" for the "Culver City Observer." Check out this recent news item to see the other op-eds recently published by fellow DNP students.

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DEAR EDITOR,

Jennie C. De Gagne, professor, was recently invited to give a webinar lecture entitled “Scholarship of teaching and learning: Methods for message dissemination” for the 2020-2021 Faculty fellows in the Invest in Nursing Project.

Duke Health features DUSON in its "School of Nursing Outlines Steps for Promoting Racial Equity" story by Morag MacLachlan for the Inside Duke Health website.

A group of 40 students and 16 faculty in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine at Duke are participating in Moral Moments in Medicine: Pandemics, Race, Social Justice, a new course hosted by the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine in collaboration with The Purpose Project at Duke