The 6th Annual Haunted Hospital on October 24 (“It’s Out of this World”) was a very successful event. Over 100 IPE students attended the event. This was a collaborative effort with all healthcare programs, Duke AHEAD, Duke IPEC, and D.E.N.S. The pictures in this gallery…
Debra Brandon and Susan Silva, associate professors, published an article entitled "Relationship between the Developmental Trajectory of Sleep-Wake States and Feeding Progression in Preterm Infants" in Nursing Research. The article was co-authored with Suzanne Thoyre of UNC - Chapel Hill…
Kudos to Tara Albrecht, assistant professor, and her entire team for the resubmission of her NIH R01 application entitled: "Build StaMINA: A tailored exercise intervention to improve physical function and QoL in adults with acute leukemia." This proposal requests funds for a 5-year period with a…
Irene Felsman, assistant professor, and PhD students Vanessa Curlee, Jacqueline Nikpour and Jewel Scott presented research at the American Public Health Association's annual conference. The theme of the conference was "Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health." Curlee and…
The American Association for Men in Nursing (AAMN) has named Duke University School of Nursing one of its 2019 Best Schools for Men in Nursing. “The success of Duke University School of Nursing as one of the nation’s leading schools of nursing education and research has been fueled by its diversity…
On November 19, from 7:30 AM to 3 PM, Duke Primary Care will present a faculty development workshop for outpatient clinician educators at Duke Integrative Medicine. Attendees will learn how to evaluate learners, how to utilize their observations of learners, how to promote interprofessional…
Jennie De Gagne, professor, was recently invited by Ewha Woman's University College of Nursing in Seoul, South Korea to deliver two special lectures. The first was for 50 graduate students on “Dissemination of Scholarly Works and Research Findings,” and the second was on “Creativity in Nursing and…
We have seen an increase in email accidents recently with unintentional sharing of sensitive and personal information to global email lists.
BEFORE you hit send, use this 5-second checklist:
Do you really want to reply to all?
Check your recipients and only send to those who…
Kudos to Michael Cary, associate professor, and his entire team for the resubmission of his NIH R01 application entitled: "Successful Community Discharge Following Inpatient Rehabilitation for Older Adults." This proposal requests funds for a 5-year period with a start date of July 1, 2020.
Nearly…
As a young graduate student, Devon Noonan started to notice a pattern. When children came into her respiratory care unit with breathing problems, more often than not their parents smelled like smoke. “We were not doing a good job addressing the smoking with the parents,” she said, “and yet this was…
Benjamin Smallheer and Margie Molloy, assistant professors, and Brett Morgan, Senior Director of Education and Practice with the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, presented at the American Association for Men in Nursing conference in Orlando, Florida on October 31. Their presentation…
Eun-Ok Im, Associate Dean for Research Development and Regulatory Affairs, is one of four national leaders appointed to the NIH's National Advisory Council for Nursing Research. The NACNR meets three times a year on the NIH campus to provide recommendations on the direction and support of the…
Kudos to Chip Bailey, associate professor, and his entire team for the resubmission of his NIH R01 application entitled "Trajectories of Caregiver Self-Management and Health (TRAC-SM)" This proposal requests funds for a 5-year period with a start date of July 1, 2020.
Family caregivers of the…
Marilyn Oermann, professor, spoke at two prestigious engagements this October.
She was the Visiting Nurse Scientist at East Carolina University College of Nursing, in Greenville, NC. She delivered the Siegfried Lowin Lecture, entitled “Nursing Education Research: Current State and Future Needs.”…
Beth C. Phillips, associate professor, published an article entitled "Opportunities took her a long way. Planning is taking her even further!" in Reflections on Nursing Leadership, a publication of Sigma Theta Tau.
DUSON student Patricia Lafontant, a Haitian-American mixed media artist, will be exhibiting her work, "Diasporan Textures: The Colors of Cultural Connection," in the Brown Gallery at the Bryan Center from October 30 to November 15.
The Office for Institutional Equity announces a call for nominations for its annual Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award. OIE is committed to recognizing individuals and teams that make significant contributions toward enhancing diversity and inclusion within the Duke community. The Equity,…
If you publish books or support faculty members who do, you may be interested in a special upcoming professional development opportunity. On November 8, a lunchtime panel discussion about the business of book publishing will offer an insiders’ view from two leaders in the field:
"The Business of…
Dr. Thomas Catena is a Duke School of Medicine graduate who founded a hospital in the rural mountains of Sudan, serving a population of 750,000 who did not have health care. There are two options to see him speak. One is a movie screening that includes dinner, Q&A and has limited slots (see…
The Duke Global Health Institute invites proposals for its Spring 2020 "Think Global" weekly lecture series. You can propose yourself or a colleague, from inside or outside the DGHI community.
The committee will begin reviewing proposals in the coming weeks and will continue the…
The committee will begin reviewing proposals in the coming weeks and will continue the…
Christina Leonard, assistant professor, has been selected for the Collaborative Project Courses Faculty Fellows Program. The full fellowship runs from December 2019 to December 2020. Her focus will be the development of an interprofessional elective course offered to multiple health disciplines…
Need a passport for study or travel abroad? Come to the annual Duke Passport Drive, open to faculty, staff, students, family and alumni.
U.S. State Department officials will visit campus to accept passport applications and renewal applications on-site. Photographers will also be available…
U.S. State Department officials will visit campus to accept passport applications and renewal applications on-site. Photographers will also be available…
You’re sitting at home and suddenly, your phone stops working. No data, no phone calls, no text messages. You call Sprint and they tell you that your SIM card has been activated on a new device. Confused, you start logging into your accounts online and find that your passwords no longer work. And…
“Point of Care” is a new monthly speaker series, sponsored by Duke-Margolis Center for Healh Policy and Blue Cross NC, that provides a national stage for thought leaders in health care delivery, payment, and reform to share their ideas, discuss new approaches, and comment on emerging health reforms…
Duke women’s health nurse practitioner (WHNP) graduates, students and faculty met up at the annual Conference for the Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health in Savannah, GA October 16-19, 2019.