PhD student Yufen Lin was recently offered a spot on the 2018-2019 Brain & Society Bass Connections team entitled "Expressive Writing for Resilience in Adult Pediatric Oncology Survivors and Their Caregivers." The program has two parts: ongoing work in the following fall and spring…
Join Raymond Barfield and Jeff Polish for a light reception and conversation on “Storytelling and Medicine” this Wednesday, April 11, from 5:15 until 6:45 p.m. in Health Humanities Lab Trent Hall 0037A. The event is the third in a series called "The Doctors Are In: Conversations in Humanities…
Kudos to PhD student Lisa Mansfield and her advisor Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda for the submission of her NIH NRSA F31-Diversity application entitled "Social Determinants of HPV Vaccine Completion among Adolesents." This proposal requests funds for a three-year period with a start date of Sept.…
Dean Marion E. Broome and colleagues recently published an article entitled "Revisiting the Quality of Reporting Randomized Controlled Trials in Nursing Literature" in Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
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Purpose: To examine and update the literature on the quality of randomized…
On April 10, Matthew Rascoff, associate vice provost, Digital Education and Innovation will be presenting "Innovating with Online Teaching and Learning" from 12-1 p.m. in Pearson 1011 as part of the 2018 Spring Teaching Conversations Series. The 2018 Spring Teaching Conversations Series are…
With just a few weeks before the end of the semester, first-year global health master's students at the Duke Global Health Institute are wrapping up their coursework. But for many of them, their minds are consumed by one giant task: preparing for summer fieldwork. (Read more)
On May 11, KURe | Duke School of Medicine will be sponsoring a Multidisciplinary Benign Urology Research Day at the Albert Eye Research Institute Auditorium. The event will consist of keynote speakers, panel discussions, poster and oral presentations, trainee awards and a lunch with the…
On Monday, April 16 from 1-4 p.m., the U.S. Army will be sponsoring a Mobile Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter (DRASH) event on the DUSON patio. The DRASH tent is similar to a MASH environment with field equipment and trainers. This event is not to recruit you, but simply give you the…
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We are excited to announce the newest location of the Duke Mobile Market right here at DUSON! What is the Mobile Market? This is a way to “subscribe” to a farm for a growing season in exchange for a box of local produce delivered…
Plans were recently finalized to convert the 3rd floor Pearson North Wing lounge into a treadmill meeting room. The new space will include six treadmill workstations arranged in a meeting configuration facing each other and supported by a newly installed AV set up. The room will be…
This Notice is to announce the NHLBI policy regarding the submission of applications that seek to conduct a clinical trial (see the NIH definition of a clinical trial) within the mission of NHLBI. The types of clinical trials addressed in this Notice fall into the following categories: 1)…
If you were studying to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) at Duke University School of Nurse Anesthesia in the 1970s, your experience was totally different from the experience that students today are having.
Things like automatically inflating blood pressure cuffs, finger…
Katherine Pereira was recently part of a National Task Force convened by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to write an updated Consensus Statement on Defining Scholarship in Nursing. This statement provides a contemporary definition of scholarship that includes…
DUSON Spectrum recently hosted a "Let's Talk About Sex" event at DUSON where students across many programs where able to participate. Their event was full of fun, games and sex talk where they played jeopardy and practiced taking a comprehensive sexual history.
Michael Zychowicz was nominated for and selected to continue participation on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) MACRA Episode-Based Cost Measures Clinical Subcommittee. The focus of this "Wave-2" group will be cost measure…
DNP and MSN alumna Rebecca McKenzie recently presented at two national conferences. McKenzie presented "Maximizing Surgical Block Utilization to Enhance OR Efficiency" at the AORN Global Surgical Conference and Expo 2018 in New Orleans, LA. She also presented "Resilience: A Skill That Can Be…
The National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP), an interdisciplinary, community-partnered research program for physicians and nurses, recently added Duke University to its prestigious consortium.
“Duke is the perfect site to join us at this time,” said Linda Sarna, PhD, RN, FAAN, national board…
PhD alumna Allison A. Lewinski and Marilyn Oermann recently published an article entitled "Characteristics of E-Mail Solicitations From Predatory Nursing Journals and Publishers" in Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing.
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Predatory publishers solicit manuscripts through e-mail…
Teresa Jenkins was recently awarded the Susan B. Clark Administrative Leadership Award and was honored at an awards luncheon at the Doris Duke Center. The luncheon celebrated both the excellence exemplified by Jenkins and her fellow nominees as well as the promise other Duke employees hold to…
Congratulations to PhD student Heeyeon Son and her sponsor Sharron Docherty who have received an American Cancer Society (ACS) Award, for her proposal entitled "Family Communication in Pediatric Palliative Care in Korea." The project has been awarded $30,000 for a two-year period with a…
“Bridging Population Health at Duke” was the title of the inaugural Population Health Symposium spearheaded by Health Affairs Chancellor Eugene Washington. Keynote speaker Clay Johnston, dean of the new Dell School of Medicine at the University of Texas at Austin, kicked off the event. Paula Tanabe…
The 2017 Durham County Community Health Assessment will be finalized later this month by the Durham Department of Public Health. The top five health issues in Durham County, identified by random surveys of the community, include:
Affordable housing
Access to healthcare and insurance
Poverty
Mental…
Marilyn Oermann and colleagues including staff member Sathya Amarasekara recently published an article entitled "Guidance Provided to Authors on Citing and Formatting References in Nursing Journals" in Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. Co-authors include Leslie Nicoll (Editor),…
The Beta Epsilon chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society recently volunteered for a Habitat for Humanity build day. Students and nurses came together to continue work on a house they started in the fall. Special thanks to Anne Hickey, WHNP student, Midge Bowers, FNP and faculty…
With hundreds of 'health' devices on the market, how do you choose which fitness tracker/ sensor/ bluetooth-enabled product to use for your research and patient monitoring? Join Ryan Shaw, PhD, RN, Faculty Director for the Mobile App Gateway and Associate Professor of the Schools of Nursing and…