Welcome back to a new year and a new semester at Duke. I hope you enjoyed a restful holiday and have been energized for your return to our classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and offices.
The close of 2015 brought us much to celebrate. Seniors Jay Ruckelshaus and Laura Roberts were…
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements of black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African-Americans in U.S. History. Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) has its own history in confronting racial issues. During the Fall of 1967, School of Nursing…
Congratulations to Andrew Buchanan on being recognized for his Commitment to Excellence. This staff recognition program celebrates staff who demonstrate the highest standards in their commitment to supporting our mission, vision and values. We thank all of those staff members…
Marilyn Oermann recently presented at two university-sponsored conferences. The first was held at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Oermann conducted a workshop for nursing faculty on "Writing for Publication."
The second was held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she…
Each day, staff members are witnessed demonstrating their commitment and dedication to the high standards of the mission and vision of the Duke University School of Nursing. DUSON is fortunate to have employees who are enthusiastic about the important work they do and the contributions they make to…
Four new staff awards were recently announced and there's only two days left to get your nominations in. All nominations must be submitted by Tuesday, March 15. The awards will be presented at the DUSON Annual Awards Program in May.
Faculty, Staff and Students are encouraged to nominate a …
New Appointment
I am very pleased to announce Katherine Pereira, DNP, FAAN, FAANP will assume the role of Program Director of the School’s Doctorate of Nursing Practice Program (DNP), effective July 1, 2016.
Dr. Pereira is an Associate Clinical Professor at the Duke…
By: Angela Spivey
COURTNEY RAMSEY, BSN’15, became seriously interested in nursing after her grandmother broke her hip. “The nurses in the hospital were fabulous,” she says. “They made sure she was comfortable and paid attention to her needs as a person. It was…
Today five contestants will swim with four sharks for a chance to receive money to fund their work.
Let's meet the four sharks or Duke experts who will be deciding the winner or winners of today's Shark Pool Live event.
Keith Whitfield, PhD, is the vice provost for Academic…
Editor's Note: Chancellor Washington and Dean Marion Broome presented two additional awards during the Awards Ceremony. Barbara Turner, PhD, RN, FAAN, received the Distinguished Faculty Award and former Dean Mary T. Champagne,…
Six students with the PhD program recently received various graduate-level awards:
Latefa Dardas, Brittney Sullivan and Kaboni Gondwe were awarded the International Dissertation Travel Award from Duke's Graduate School. Each will receive $2,000 and the award…
For more than 25 years, we have celebrated one of the largest segments of the U.S. workforce as a whole – NURSES. National Nurses Week is celebrated in honor of Florence Nightingale who is considered to be the founder of modern nursing.
Nightingale, also known as the “Lady with the Lamp,”…
The School of Nursing recently celebrated the excellence of students, faculty and staff during its annual Awards Ceremony. Award winners were:
David Jackson received the Sigma Theta Tau International Beta Epsilon Chapter Ruby Wilson Award for clearly…
PhD student Brittney Sullivan recently received the Henry B. Spencer Scholarship for $10,000 from the Nurses Educational Funds (NEF), Inc. The scholarship is dedicated to leadership in nursing and health care.
MSN - Pediatric Nurse Practitioner alumni Whitney McGarry and Kristi Hildebrand received awards at the 37th National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
McGarry received the Elaine Gelman Scholarship named after Elaine Gelman, CPNP…
Jennie De Gagne recently made a podium presentation entitled “Prevalence of and factors related to urinary incontinence among older adults living in rural South Korea: A multisite study,” at the Sigma Theta Tau International European Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. During the conference, she…
Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) is proud to announce eight of its doctoral students were selected to participate in the Jonas Nurse Scholar program. The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare provides an $80,000 grant to support three PhD Jonas Nurse Leader Scholars, three PhD…
By: Kelly Jasiura
Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) highlighted its commitment to global health when it hosted a visit of 12 students from Teamwork City of Hope (TCOH) on Thursday, June 16. TCOH is a self-sustaining campus dedicated to providing education, health…
MSN student Ryan Tucker was recently awarded a scholarship from the Veterans Affairs Health Professional Scholarship Program (HPSP). The program awards scholarships to students receiving education or training in a direct or indirect health care services discipline…
Jewel Scott, MSN, FNP, RN, is a 2016 recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Future of Nursing Scholar at Johnson & Johnson grant that will support her research in the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) PhD program. The scholarship is…
School of Nursing welcomes three new staff members to the DUSON family:
Adrienne Richter joined the Center For Nursing Research as the data technician on July 11. Richter is working as a transcriptionist for several research studies at DUSON.
Jane Shealy is…
DNP student Susan Little was recently chosen to receive the Dr. Joy F. Reed Leadership Scholarship. The scholarship was created in honor of Reed's loyalty and dedication to the advancement of public health nursing in the state of North Carolina. The …
MSN student Jennifer Foreman, who is a Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP and Women's Health major, recently received the 2016 NURSE Corps Scholarship Program award. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) award enables students accepted or enrolled in diploma,…
Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) and its Institute for Educational Excellence will host the 6th annual Pursuing Radical Transformation in Nursing Education Conference April 22 and 23. This year’s theme is “Active Learning and Engaging Teaching.”
The event’s keynote speaker is Dr. Richard…
Imagine a patient lying unconscious in the bed, overcome by the Ebola virus. He’s quarantined, and health care providers are wary of coming too close. If Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) and Pratt School of Engineering researchers have their way, in the not too distant future the nurses…