As part of our strategic plan kick off, you will be receiving a blue DUSON mug (in the coming weeks) to celebrate our new vision. So that I may get to know you better, and support the implementation of our strategic plan, we are scheduling monthly "Coffee with the Dean" sessions starting…
Keeping you informed of non-Duke related news, events and opportunities...
ABSN Student Colleen Baird: Yoga for EMS, September 29
South East AHEC: Marie Manthey's Day of Diaglogue: Providing Nurse…
Recent news from around the University and Health System...
Duke AHEAD:
Clinical Teaching: Efficient, Effective & Fun (A two-part series), October 20 & 25
Duke Community & Family Medicine:
Full Fall…
Kathryn "Kathy" Trotter recently presented at the Duke AHEAD Health Professions Education Day: Working and Learning Together to Advance Health and Wellness for All. Trotter's presentation was entitled "Interprofessional Education Events: The Start of Respectful Teamwork." Co-authors of the…
Over the next year, 11 Duke University School of Nursing staff members will have candid conversations with executive leaders from across the university, conduct self-assessments, and take professional development classes as part of a new “Emerging Leaders” program in the school.
The Duke…
From the Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives...
Duke Restricts Travel to Ethiopia
Effective September 8, 2016 Duke’s Restricted Regions List reflects a ‘entire country’ restriction on travel to Ethiopia, which is an expansion of the…
The Duke University School of Nursing - Durham VA Nursing Academic Partnership is extending and the MSN Program and the Durham VA Education Committee is collaborating to co-host a Nurse Practitioner Week Educational Symposium.
This full-day symposium will take place at DUSON during Nurse…
Duke Health will be hosting our 2016 Thank-a-thon on Monday, Oct. 10th. We will be making hundreds of phone calls to our donors to extend our thanks for their support this past year. Other areas in Health like Cancer and Children’s have a wonderful volunteer base who helps make calls, but as…
Duke’s IHI Kick-Off Event: Wednesday, September 21st | 6:30pm (RSVP Below)
Duke’s Chapter of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) invites all Duke community members to attend the annual Kick-Off Event on 9/21/2016 from 6:30-7:30pm in the TSCHE Learning…
From Mary Ann Fuchs, Vice President of Patient Care and System Chief Nurse Executive...
Special Edition of the DUHS Nursing E-Newsletter
From the Center for Nursing Research...
Great News! Richesson and Jang Receive Awards
Congratulations to Rachel Richesson who has received an AWARD for her NIH R15/National Library of Medicine proposal entitled “Quantifying System and Data Readiness for…
DUSON Student Council wants you to go to a free lunch with a faculty member of your choice! Lunch can be at any location up to $12/per person/per meal, and students can go to lunch once per semester (Fall, Spring, Summer). All DUSON students are eligible to participate (on-campus and distance-based…
Jennie C. De Gagne, PhD, DNP, RN-BC, CNE, associate professor, and Valerie K. Sabol, PhD, ACNPBC, GNPBC, CNE, FAANP, professor and chair of the Health Care in Adult Populations Division, both for Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON), will be inducted as fellows in the National League for…
Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) celebrates the 10th anniversary milestone of the PhD in Nursing Program. The program was developed in the mid-2000s and admitted its first students in the fall of 2006. Created in response to both the School’s growth in research as well as producing…
Margaret "Meg" Carman recently presented at the Emergency Nurses Association Annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Her presentation "Make No Bones About It Parts 1 and 2" focused on emergency management of orthopedic injuries of the upper and lower extremities.
Donna Biederman was recently selected as one of 15 three-person teams to join Interdisciplinary Research Leaders, a new program led by the University of Minnesota with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Biederman will join researchers and community leaders from across the…
More than 12 faculty and staff members, and several PhD alumni and students presented at the 2016 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research presented by the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS) in Washington, D.C. This year's event focused on Determinants of Health and…
Cristina Hendrix was recently featured in an article entitled "Torres of Nursing benchmarks in Duke University." The article is about Assistant Professor Gian Carlo Torres with the University of Santo Tomas (UST) who visited DUSON weekly as part of the two-week global nursing course offered through…
Michael Cary, Nancy Crego and Schenita Randolph were recently selected to participate in the Duke Health Health Disparities Research Curriculum (HDRC) sponsored by Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute, which is in support by the Duke CTSA grant.
HDRC is designed to increase knowledge…
DUSON was recently awarded the 2016 American Assembly of Men in Nursing (AAMN) Best School or College of Nursing Award. The award recognizes schools that demonstrate significant efforts in recruiting and providing a supportive educational environment for men in nursing.
One reviewer noted: "Duke…
Jennie De Gagne along with Research & Education Librarian Jamie Conklin and Post-Graduate student Sandra Yamane presented a poster entitled "Strategies for Preventing Cyberincivility in Health Professions Education: A Systematic Review" at the 2016 Duke AHEAD Health Professions Education Day:…
Addressing about 60 Duke students, staff and faculty during a panel discussion Monday, seven female deans at Duke discussed balancing work and life, important leadership qualities, overcoming self-doubt, and stereotypes of female and minority leaders.
Each dean also described her own path to…
Congratulations to Nora Harrington on being recognized for her 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…