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

The 8th Annual Advanced Practice Provider Veterans' Health Symposium was delivered on November 13 with nearly 1,000 registrants in partnership with the Durham VA Advanced Practice Nursing Committee. This year's conference theme was Innovation and Leadership in Veteran Health Care.

Six ABSN students from the 2020 fall cohort have been approved as D-CHIPP affiliates.

Najla McClain, ABSN program coordinator and D-CHIPP staff affiliate, recently joined the Partnership for Healthy Durham Racial Equity Task Force. The goal of the task force is to build racial equity principles into the broader work of the Partnership to ensure all who live in Durham County have equal opportunities to be healthy.

Rosa Persaud has joined the Dean’s Office team as of Monday, November 16, as administrative assistant to Dean Marion E. Broome. Persaud has been employed at Duke University since her family relocated to the area in 2016. She worked in the Duke University Hospital Kidney Transplant Department as a transplant financial coordinator and most recently as administrative assistant in the Department of Neurology of the School of Medicine.

Duke students are invited to participate in Winter Breakaway’s program Duke 2030 Design Sprint. The program will run January 4 to 15 from 10 a.m.

Devon Noonan, associate professor, recently presented some of the findings of her research during a D-CHIPP Community Health Academic Talk, or CHAT. The CHAT was attended by DUSON faculty, staff, and community partners. Noonan described her tobacco cessation study with Durham Housing Authority, where residents trained to become Community Health Advisors (CHAs) encouraged their neighbors to quit tobacco.

Pinning is a significant milestone for any nursing student, and on Wednesday, a cohort of ABSN students achieved that milestone through a pinning ceremony. 

The event consisted of four mini ceremonies from 1 to 5 p.m. Each ceremony was streamed on Zoom, and the students chose whether they wanted to participate online or in person.