Duke HomeCare & Hospice (DHCH) Diversity Committee announces the next session in its ongoing Diversity Training dialogues titled "Ability Awareness." This session will be held Tuesday, November 29, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. in the DHCH large conference room. Guest speaker will be Aileen…
DUSON was recently visited by 10 nurse managers from Shanghai Pudong Hospital in Pudong Xinqu, Shanghai Shi, China as part of the week long Duke Leadership Institute intensive. The Duke Leadership Institute is jointly developed and managed by DUSON and Duke Global Health.
The nurses participated…
DUSON joins Mary Dunn and the North Carolina Triangle Oncology Nursing Society for Kaps for Kids. The School will collect new hats for children undergoing cancer therapy from November 1 until January 6.
Kaps should be new (purchased or handmade) and will be distributed to the UNC Chapel Hill…
The DUSON Strong's Race to Jamaica is over and team Staff took the lead and finished first in the race out of the three teams! Overall, DUSON finished the race with 13,049.9 miles with the overall leaders being Janice Humphreys, William Falls…
The federal Uniform Guidance (UGC 3.0) treats computers as supplies and allows computing devices to be directly charged to a federally sponsored project even if they are not solely dedicated to that project (however, there must be a clear relationship between the need for the…
Faculty and 20 students attended the annual Latino Health Fair and provided more than 200 screenings for diabetes, hypertension and obesity. Irene Felsman and Rosa Solorzano coordinated the health screening services with El Centro Hispano. Faculty members Nancy Crego, Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda…
Rachel Richesson was recently selected by the executive committee of the American College of Medical Informatics to serve as an expert for American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) "Meet the Expert" Session at the Annual AMIA Symposium in Chicago, IL.
Sharon Hawks, Kathleen Turner, Anne Derouin, Rémi Hueckel, Marilyn Oermann along with former DUSON Research and Education Librarian and Liaison Adrianne Leonardelli published an article entitled "Writing Across the Curriculum: Strategies to Improve the Writing Skills of Nursing Students" in…
DNP student Kristine Harrington published an op-ed entitled "Supporting palliative care bill now will help you later" in the Baltimore Sun. Harrington is a palliative care nurse practitioner and wrote the article as part of the N962 - Transforming the Nations Health course.
DNP student Gwen Klinkner published an article entitled "Diabetes Epidemic - Medication Isn't Enough" with Inside Sources. Klinkner is a diabetes clinical nurse specialist and a certified diabetes educator and wrote the article as part of the N962 - Transforming the Nations Health course.
Donna Biederman and her colleagues were featured in an article entitled "Researching Housing as Healthcare" by the Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute. The article focuses on the team taking part in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdiscipinary Research Leaders program.…
DNP student Judy Glann published an article entitled "Aquifer exposure a clear, present danger" in the Albuquerque Journal. Glann is an acute care nurse practitioner and wrote the article as part of the N962 - Transforming the Nations Health course.
Third and fourth semester ABSN students administered more than 4,000 flu vaccines this year as part of the Duke University Fight the Flu campaign. Providing more than 477 hours of flu clinic as part of their 477 - Population Health Practice: Communicable Diseases & Immunizations course, the…
Nancy Crego and Elizabeth "Beth" Merwin publish an article entitled "Differences in Pediatric Non-Interventional Radiology Procedural Sedation Practices and Adverse Events by Registered Nurses and Physicians" in the October issue of the Journal of Pediatric Nursing. The article was co-…
Brigit Carter is one of 15 multidisciplinary leaders selected for the George Washington University Leaders for Health Equity (LHE) Fellowship program. The purpose of the program is to develop global leaders who understand the drivers of inequity in populations within the United States and globally…
Schenita Randolph recently presented on "Perspectives of African American Fathers about the Facilitators and Barriers of Sexual Health Communication" at the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Conference in Atlanta, GA.
Abstract: African-American males between the ages of 13…
Wei Pan published an invited editorial commentary entitled "Propensity Score Methods in Nursing Research: Take Advantage of Them but Proceed With Caution" in the November/December issue of the Nursing Research. The article was co-authored by Dr. Haiyan Bai for the University of Central Florida in…
Irene Felsman published an article entitled "Supporting Health and Well-Being for Resettled Refugee Women: The Global Women's Group" in Creative Nursing.
Abstract: Women refugees arrive in the United States often having experienced extreme levels of poverty, deprivation,…
Michael Relf is one of two appointed as associate editor for the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. Relf will join the editorial team at where he will contribute to the goal of improving the journal's impact on all aspects of the HIV epidemic in order to improve the lives…
Marion E. Broome presented the inaugural LTC Isabelle Bagin Memorial lecture "Fearless Leadership: Using Nursing Science to Improve Health" at the Uniformed Services University for Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD.
DUSON welcomes Katie Harrison to the School of Nursing family! Harrison joined the Center for Nursing Discovery as a clinical nurse instructor.
Harrison hails originally from upstate New York and has lived in Orlando, FL for part of her life and relocated from Jackson, WY to join DUSON. She spent…
Ryan Shaw, Michele Kuszajewski and Margie Molloy were recently featured in the News & Observer in an article entitled "Duke officials test, refine robot-nurse." The robot-nurse is a first-generation nursing robot that DUSON and the Duke Pratt School of Engineering students are collaborating on…
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PhD student Deanna Befus recently participated in two podium presentations entitled "A systems-thinking, strengths-based approach to study migraine self-management and empower vulnerable affected individuals" and "Relationships between lifetime trauma exposure, chronic pain, depression, and PTSD in…
Kudos to Victoria Goode for the submission of her American Association of Nurse Anesthetists proposal entitled "Surgical Outcomes for Colorectal Surgery Patients: Influences on AHRQ PSIs and 30-day Readmission." This proposal requests funding for a…