D-CHIPP and the Center for Nursing Research (CNR) recently hosted Duke and DUSON faculty, staff, students and community partners at The Chesterfield for a workshop entitled “Create your Biosketch.” Gina Della Porta led the training and provided a presentation on how researchers and…
Kathy Trotter recently presented two posters at the Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health Annual Premier Women's Healthcare Conference.
Her posters were entitled "Anxiety Scores of Women Participating in High Risk Breast Cancer Outpatient Group Visits" and "Care of Women with Thyroid Disease…
Staff member Tondelaya George was recently selected to serve as a Duke Health Volunteer Staff Diversity Educator.
To successfully educate Duke University Health System employees on diversity and inclusion, belonging, cultural competency and implicit/unconscious bias, George will: observe a…
What would you say if your patient told you they inject drugs or did sex work? Spectrum is hosting a panel on Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 6 until 7:30 p.m. in Pearson 1009. The panel will be on "Harm Reduction", practical strategies that health care providers can use to lessen the harms…
Kudos to AnnMarie Walton and her entire team for the submission of her Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) R21 application entitled “Improving Strategies to Limit Healthcare Workers' Exposure to Antineoplastic Drugs." This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a…
Kudos to PhD student Yesol Yang and her mentor Cristina Hendrix for the submission of his American Cancer Society (ACS), Doctoral Degree Scholarship in Cancer Nursing application entitled “Caregiver Reaction and Cognitive Function in Breast Cancer Patients." This proposal requests funding for…
Kudos to Nancy Crego and her entire team for the submission of her Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) R03 application entitled “Differences in Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Children and Adolescents 2014-2018." This proposal requests funding for an18-month period with a start…
Kudos to medical instructor and PhD alumna Hanzhang Xu and her entire team for the submission of her National Institutes of Health (NIH) R03 application entitled “An Innovative Approach for Understanding Trajectories of Medication Adherence in Patients with Heart Failure." This proposal…
DUKE FITNESS CLUB DISCOUNT
Millennium Sports Club is offering a promotional rate of $20/month to NEW members who start Oct. 1 or Nov. 1, that’s a $13 savings! You must mention the promotion upon enrollment with LIVE FOR LIFE to get this special offer. Learn more about…
DUSON Nurse Anesthesia faculty members and students recently participated in the inaugural international consensus meeting sponsored by GE Healthcare in Frankfurt, Germany to develop and promulgate best-practice recommendations for mechanically ventilating patients in the operating room…
You're invited to attend a documentary screening of "Transgender Tuesdays" on Wednesday, Nov. 7 from 12 until 1:15 p.m. in Pearson 1103.
Transgender Tuesdays is the story of the country’s first Primary Care transgender clinic – started on Tuesday nights in San Francisco’s notorious…
Duke University School of Nursing is excited to welcome Jacqueline Brown to the Sickle Cell Disease Group!
Brown recently joined DUSON as a research program leader for Paula Tanabe's Sickle Cell Disease Group. Before joining DUSON, Brown served as communications manager and sickle cell…
Earning your PhD at Duke allows you to study many different facets of patient care. One PhD student shows us how collaborating with the School of Engineering improves care for dementia patients.
PhD student Sijia Wei worked this summer with Pratt School of Engineering student and…
We started the day meeting and collaborating with our UPOLI students, as well as a videographer from the university. We then headed to the barrio to spend the morning with our families. As we continued assessing and educating our families, the videographer captured our work. This being the fourth…
We started the day meeting and collaborating with our UPOLI students, as well as a videographer from the university. We then headed to the barrio to spend the morning with our families. As we continued assessing and educating our families, the videographer captured our work. This being the fourth…
Kathryn Kreider was recently an invited symposium speaker at the Metabolic and Endocrine Disease Summit (MEDS) conference in Orlando, FL.
Her presentation was entitled "Getting to the Heart of Type 2 Diabetes Management: Practice Insights for NPs and PAs."
Kudos to PhD student Yufen Lin and her faculty sponsor Chip Bailey for the submission of her American Cancer Society (ACS), Doctoral Degree Scholarship in Cancer Nursing application entitled “Symptom Clusters in Patients with Gastric Cancer." This proposal requests funding for a…
Kudos to PhD student Eunji Cho and her mentor Sharron Docherty for the submission of her American Cancer Society (ACS), Doctoral Degree Scholarship in Cancer Nursing application entitled "Developing and Pilot Testing a Pediatric Oncology Nurse-Adolescent Dyadic Storytelling Intervention…
The Staff and Workplace Advisory Council (SAWAC) are seeking vendors from among DUSON faculty, staff and students to sell arts, crafts, goods and services for their DUSON Craft and Vendor Fair on Thursday, Nov. 29 from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the atrium.
All proceeds from the table…
On Nov. 10, Dean Broome will be sponsoring a tent for the Duke vs. UNC Football game. The tent will be located in the Card Gym lot.
We will be tailgating before and after the game. Dean Broome will be providing food and beverages for the tailgate.
Elaine Kauschinger recently gave a podium presentation at the Magna Teaching with Technology conference in St. Louis, MO. Her presentation was entitled "Emerging Technology in Higher Education: Virtual Patient Simulation."
The Magna Teaching with Technology conference attendee's gain the skills…
MSN instructor Maryellen Kelly recently published an article entitled "Assessment of pediatric bowel and bladder dysfunction: a critical appraisal of the literature" in the Journal of Pediatric Urology. Co-authors include experts from Duke University Medical Center.
Abstract
Objective: Bowel and…
The Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program will accept applications for the 2019-2020 program year from Oct. 1 to Dec. 7, 2018. This one-year leadership development program will train the advanced practice nurse to be better able to meet the challenges of the evolving health care…
Kudos to Christine Tocchi and her entire team for the submission of their NIH R21 application entitled "Symptom Phenotypes in Homebound Elderly." This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a start date of July 1, 2019.
Homebound elders are an under-…
Congratulations to DNP'17 alumna, DUSON consulting associate and D-CHIPP advisory board member Susan Haynes Little who has been selected by the American Nurses Association (ANA) to serve as co-chair of the workgroup that will review and revise for publication the 3rd edition of the Scope…