Michael Zychowicz, professor, along with colleagues from the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), recently published an article in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, entitled "Building evidence for use of simulation in nurse…
Congratulations to Jill Cordell, director of financial aid, and Doreen Matters, DEFT program director, on their graduation from Duke Leadership Academy!
Katie Harrison, clinical nurse educator, published a teaching tip article in the upcoming January/February 2020 edition of the journal Nurse Educator, entitled “Nifty Nursing Mnemonic for Early Sepsis Recognition.”
Duke's Beta Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta encourages you to save the date for its upcoming educational program. On February 5, 2020, Donna Nicholson (VP of Risk Management at Curi) will speak on "Pertinent Strategies to Mitigate Malpractice Claims." The event will take place at 5:30 pm in Pearson…
Duke Health and Fitness Center's Getting on Track program provides an integrative approach to weight management and lifestyle change. Our nutrition, exercise, and behavioral health experts’ work with participants to eliminate the typical frustration, confusion and deprivation that is often…
Maggie McDonough will begin her new role as Clinical Instruction Manager for the ABSN program beginning on December 16. Maggie has been at DUSON in several capacities for over ten years - most recently as the ABSN Program Coordinator. We are thankful to have Maggie’s organizational skills, customer…
Graduating this semester? Congratulations for completing your degree from one of the top nursing programs in the country. Below are common questions we hear from graduating students and steps we recommend that you take now so that you are prepared for post-graduation:
How long will I…
The Duke University Center for International & Global Studies' Graduate Awards for Research and Training provide graduate students working on international research topics with funding for travel to archival and research sites inside and outside the continental United States; for…
Malinda Teague is the MSN program’s newest faculty member. She is an alumnus of DUSON’s DNP program who hails originally from Chicago, Illinois. As a dual-certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Primary and Acute Care, she brings a wealth of knowledge to our community as well as at the PDC-owned…
Kudos to Jiepin Cao and her advisor, Associate Professor Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, for the submission of her Sigma Theta Tau Global Nursing Excellence small grant proposal entitled: “Intimate Partner Violence Among Chinese: From the Lens of Social Determinants of Health and Intersectionality.” This…
The Deans’ Forum, a new quarterly webinar series sharing best practices for nursing deans and senior leaders. featured as its first expert Valerie M. Howard, associate dean for Academic Affairs. The topic for the hour-long webinar was how to develop an effective faculty workload policy. The…
Congratulations to Nancy Crego, assistant professor, who has received an award from the NHLBI funded Functional and Translational Genomic (FTG) of Blood Disorders-PRIDE Small Research Program administered by Augusta University for her proposal entitled “Exploring Predictors of Fetal Hemoglobin…
Welcome to another issue of "10 Questions with...," where we will learn more about our colleagues who make DUSON the destination for outstanding talent.
Let's get to know Heather Mountz, Program Coordinator for D-CHIPP (DUSON Community Health Improvement Partnership Program), who has been at Duke…
Congratulations to associate professor Sophia Smith, Katherine Duhamel (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and their entire team, who have received an award for their NCI R01 Multi-PI proposal entitled “Using a SMART Design to Optimize PTSD Symptom Management Strategies Among Cancer Survivors…
D-CHIPP Coordinator Heather Mountz recently passed the Certified in Public Health (CPH) Examination. The examination, with 175 scored questions, tests knowledge in ten public health content areas, including Evidence-based Approaches to Public Health, Leadership, and Health Equity and Social Justice…
Kudos to Phd student Nicole Calhoun and her sponsor, Associate Professor Devon Noonan, for the submission of her Sigma Theta Tau, International (STTI) application, entitled “Primary Healthcare Utilization among the Community-Supervised Population with Noncommunicable Disease.” This proposal…
I am pleased to announce that Michelle Webb, DNP, MSN, RN, CHPCA, will join DUSON’s faculty on January 1, 2020. She will have teaching responsibilities within the MSN program’s Nursing and Health Care Leadership major and be a member of the Division of Health Systems and Analytics. She holds…
Congratulations to Donna Biederman, associate professor, (and her entire team) who received an award for her Duke Intellectual Community Planning Grant (ICPG) proposal entitled: “Housing and Health: A Multi-Sector Community-Driven Approach to Achieving Health Equity.” This award is for a one-year…
Dr. Teague received a BS in anthropology with a minor in chemistry from Vanderbilt University and an MS in Nursing from the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2002. She earned her DNP from Duke University School of Nursing, where her DNP project focused on evaluating pediatric sleep and its…
Congratulations to Sophia Smith, associate professor; Katherine Duhamel with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and their entire team received an award for their NCI R01 Multi-PI proposal entitled "Using a SMART Design to Optimize PTSD Symptom Management Strategies Among Cancer Survivors." The…
Kudos to Irene Felsman, assistant professor and principal investigator; Gabriela Nagy, assistant professor in Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; and Allison Stafford, postdoctoral associate and contact PI, who received an award for their Duke University Bass Connection application entitled…
Eleanor Stevenson, associate professor, recently published an article entitled "The Lived Experience of Klinefelter Syndrome: A Narrative Review of the Literature" in Frontiers in Endocrinology. Co-authors includex experts from the Centre for Reproduction Research at De Montfort University,…
Will you be using a public WiFi in the coming weeks (your hotel, an airport, Starbucks, your neighbor’s guest WiFi)?
Several of you asked about VPNs after reading last week’s Tech Tuesday about travel security. Here’s what you should know:
First…
Kudos to Sophia Smith, associate professor, and her entire team on receiving an award for her Association of Oncology Social Work (AOSW) application entitled "Usability of a Mobile App for CLL Survivors." This award is for a one-year period with a start date of November 21, 2019. The award is for $…
Maralis Mercado Emerson, clinical research coordinator, was appointed to the Mayor's Hispanic/Latino Committee. The Committee has been active in serving as a liaison between Hispanic/Latino community groups and the City of Durham government since 2002. In 2015, City Council voted unanimously to…