Stephanie Gedzyk-Nieman, assistant professor, and Benjamin Smallheer and Margie Molloy, associate professors, presented at the 2021 ATI National Nurse Educator Summit last week. Brett Morgan, former Nurse Anesthesia-DNP program director, also presented. Their presentation was entitled "Call to…
DUSON is collaborating with Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program to present a Diversity CRNA Info Session from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6. This event will be virtual, and log in will start at 7:45 a.m. Register online.
The Duke American Association of Men in Nursing (DAAMN)'s blood drive for the American Red Cross on Tuesday, Nov. 2, was deemed a huge success. The goal was to collect 21 units, and they collected 23, impacting and saving 69 lives. Stay tuned for details on a spring blood drive.
Devon Noonan, Dorothy L. Powell Term Chair in Nursing, was a guest presenter for the Duke CTSA Integrating Special Populations Core Fall Seminar Series. She presented "Inclusion of Rural Populations in Research" on Thursday, Oct. 21. This seminar focused on how to define…
DUSON community partner, TROSA, has been recognized by the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency with one of four 2021 North Carolina Housing Awards. TROSA recently completed two housing units that provide lodging for 60 women in their substance use treatment program. The units include living and…
Katie Bowler Young, assistant dean for communications, marketing, and business development, has been awarded a 2021 North Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in the category of Outstanding Government Service. The Governor’s Award is the highest honor for North Carolina state employees.…
Paula Tanabe, vice dean, Research, wrote "It's Time to Provide Evidence-Based Care to Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease: A Call to Action" for the "Journal of Emergency Nursing."
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In the current issue of the Journal of Emergency Nursing, Linton et…
DUSON and the Durham VA Health Care System presented the "Nurse Practitioner Residency Quality Improvement Presentations and Residency Completion" event on October 22 in the Pearson Building; a virtual option was available.
DUSON partners with the Durham VA to lead two post-graduate…
Duke University is expanding the number of designated holidays in 2022 by adding Juneteenth, which is now a federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of slaves, as stated in an article from Working@Duke.
Juneteeth, known as the country’s second independence day, is celebrated on June…
The Duke University School of Nursing received the 2021 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from “INSIGHT Into Diversity” magazine for the second consecutive year. Given by the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education, this…
DUSON has earned the Best Schools for Men in Nursing Award from the American Association for Men in Nursing (AAMN) for the seventh time. This recognition is given to nursing schools or colleges that have provided significant efforts in recruiting and retaining men in nursing, in providing men a…
Michael Cary, Elizabeth C. Clipp Term Chair in Nursing, has received his Data Analytics Boot Camp badge from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Digital badges are an online validation of an individual’s achievement and skillset. They are generally used to illustrate completion of a noncredit offering, such as…
Schenita Randolph, associate professor, and colleagues from the inaugural cohort of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship at UC Davis were highlighted in the UC Davis Health article, "Nurse leader fellows publish landmark paper on role of historically Black colleges and universities." The article…
Ragan Johnson, associate professor, and Marquita Lyons-Smith, of NCCU, presented at the inaugural DNPs of Color Conference on October 23. The presentation shared the LEAHP (Leading to Equitable Access to Health Professions) summer immersion program. The two highlighted the benefits of collaboration…
Exit survey data impacts the student experience at DUSON, and your input is vital to continuous program improvements. Watch your Duke email for survey invitations from Vice Dean, Academic Affairs, Valerie Howard. It only takes a few minutes to anonymously evaluate your Duke experience and make a…
Marilyn Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing, was a keynote speaker at the National Nursing Education Summit sponsored by ATI on October 19. Her speech was "Evidence-based Teaching Approaches: Where’s the Proof?"
The summit's agenda included:
Explore strategies and best…
Duke AI Health and the Duke Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute have announced a call for applications to the Spring 2022 Clinical Research with Electronic Health Records Data (CR-EHR) Course, with a November 19 application submission deadline. CR-EHR is an interdisciplinary course…
Students can sign up to be on the waitlist of Duke IPEC and Duke Ahead's Haunted Hospital event, Nightmare on Erwin Street, on October 28. Students who would like to sign up in addition to any faculty and staff that would like to participate can email Margie Molloy, associate professor and…
There will be an information session for the Exploring Medicine in Other Cultures: Honduras Spring 2022 program on Tuesday, October 26, from 6 to 7 p.m. on Zoom. Students in all of Duke's health care education programs can enroll in this Interdisciplinary Course and Health Outreach.…
Maryellen Kelly, assistant professor, presented virtually as the keynote speaker at the CAIRIBU K12 Scholar Seminar on October 14. The title of the talk was “Pediatric Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: Current Management and Where we Will Go.”
The Triangle Global Health Consortium 2021 Virtual Annual Conference will be Thursday, November 4. This year's conference theme will be Reframing Global Health in a Changing World.
How does the global health sector evolve to continue to deliver impact in a changing world? The TGHC 2021…
Jennie De Gagne, professor, has co-authored "Eating Difficulties Among Older Adults with Dementia in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Scoping Review" in the "International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health" as part of the Special Issue "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Alzheimer'…
Katie Bowler Young, who joined DUSON as assistant dean for communications, marketing, and business development on October 11, is moderating “The Future of Green and Blue Economies for North Carolina on the Global Stage” on October 28 at the North Carolina Advantage Forum 2021, organized by the NC…
Kudos to Michael Cary, Elizabeth C. Clipp Term Chair in Nursing, and his entire team for the submission of his Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) R21/R33 application entitled: “Development and Evaluation of an Automated Clinical Prediction Tool to Guide Successful Community…