Tech Tip of the Week

For DUSON Faculty using Zoom classrooms

Are you creating your spring 2021 syllabus? If so, please add a note instructing your students to call our IT Service Desk immediately if they are having issues with Zoom.

Here’s a draft message you can include in your syllabus:

If you either can’t connect to Zoom for your class or if you have issues during a Zoom class, please contact SON-IT at (919) 684-9200 or via email at SONIT-Support@duke.edu.

Schenita D. Randolph, assistant professor, is a co-investigator for a recently funded PCORI grant. Nadine J. Barrett with the Duke School of Medicine, is the project lead.

Project Summary

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.

Excerpt 

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.