Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos was featured in the September 2021 issue of "Ob. Gyn. News" in the story "STI Care: Achieving a 'new sexual health paradigm' means expanding care" by Tara Haelle.
Excerpt
A vital aspect of expanding access and care for sexually transmitted infections (…
Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos was featured in the September issue of the American Academy of Nursing's FAAN Mail newsletter for the Viewpoint entitled “Parent-Based Sexual Health Promotion and Sexually Transmitted Infections Prevention for Youth."
The Viewpoint appeared in August in…
DUSON will celebrate 2021 National Postdoctoral Appreciation week from September 20 to 24. Each postdoctoral scholar will give a 10-15 minute presentation on their research interests on September 24 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., on Zoom. Postdocs include Gillian Adynski, Sallie Allgood,…
The Center for Nursing Discovery (CND) is joining the global celebration of Healthcare Simulation Week presented by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Healthcare Simulation is a learning tool that recreates a healthcare environment to allow learners to experience a realistic healthcare…
Yesol Yang, PhD'21, Tolu Oyesanya, associate professor, Hyeyoung K. Park, PhD'19, and Cristina Hendrix, chair of the Clinical Health Systems & Analytics Division, contributed to "The Association of Self-esteem With Caregiving Demands, Coping, Burden, and Health Among Caregivers of Breast…
Donna J. Biederman, associate professor, Christian Douglas, consulting associate, Heather A. O' Donohue, ABSN'20, and Monica Daeges, ABSN alumna, contributed to "Changes in health and health care utilization following eviction from public housing" in "Public Health Nursing." Other authors include…
Midge Bowers, associate professor, and Sean Convoy, assistant professor, shared a podium presentation, “Fostering Advanced Practice Nursing Skills Through Simulated Telehealth Consultation,” virtually at the 11th International Council of Nurses — Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice…
Throughout this month, students from Duke's five health care education programs, including the School of Nursing, will be taking over the programs' separate Instagram accounts. The goal is to help bring the clinical setting to students, virtually through social media, and to help supplement…
Maryellen Kelly, assistant professor, has been named co-investigator on the CDC grant for the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. Duke has one of the largest spina bifida clinics in the country and offers to patients in the clinic enrollment to the registry and complete annual follow up. The…
Maryellen Kelly, assistant professor, was part of a panel discussion for the CAIRIBU (Collaborating for the Advancement of Benign Urology Research) Connections workshop on Microbiome of the Lower Urinary Tract, which was held virtually in August. She has also been appointed to the steering…
Nurses, nursing students, and others are being invited to apply to volunteer for the American Red Cross disaster response as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Nurses and other health professional volunteers are needed to support individuals affected by disasters.
One of the Future of Nursing…
DUSON Student Council is hosting a jacket order for students wanting a DUSON jacket. Options are blue or grey for pick up or delivery. Check your email for more information, or place your order online.
Blanca Iris Padilla, assistant professor, contributed to "The Impact of Racial Bias in Patient Care and Medical Education: Let's Focus on the Educator" in "MedEdPORTAL." The article discusses a series of workshops that were created to fill a gap regarding the impact of racial bias on patient…
Mary Ann Fuchs, associate dean of clinical affairs and vice president of patient care & system chief nurse executive, Duke Health, Julie Thompson, consulting associate, and Bradi Granger, professor, contributed to "Evaluation of a proactive hiring model to achieve workforce stability in the…
Staci Reynolds, associate professor, Bradi Granger, professor, and Daniel Hatch, biostatistician III, wrote "Self-Reported versus Observed Audit: Measuring CHG Bathing Compliance" in "American Journal of Infection Control."
Abstract
Measuring compliance with the appropriate…
Irene Abella works as a Duke nurse committed to Filipinx nurse advocacy.
New Doctor of Nursing Practice student Irene Abella had to read her acceptance letter to the University Scholar program several times before she believed the news that she was selected as Duke University School of…
Hanzhang Xu, assistant professor, recently co-submitted a research proposal to the World Stroke Organization entitled “Patient Characteristics, Quality of Care, and In-hospital Outcomes for Acute Ischemic Stroke ─ An International Comparison of China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the United…
The Triangle Global Health Consortium will host its 2021 Virtual Annual Conference on Nov. 4. This year's theme is Reframing Global Health in a Changing World.
Abstracts for program sessions are being accepted, including:
Panel Discussion (50 mins) featuring a moderator and up to three…
Kudos to Michelle Xue, PhD student, and Eleanor McConnell, associate professor, for the submission of their SNRS Dissertation application entitled: “Dynamics of Symptom Experience and Functional Recovery in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia after Hip Fracture Surgery." This proposal requests…
Back by popular demand, DUHS Infection Prevention, with support from the Duke Center for Healthcare Safety & Quality, sponsored a meme (and haiku!) contest as a fun and creative way to celebrate Infection Prevention Week 2021 (October 17-23).
The contest has officially closed, and thank you to…
Congratulations to Devon Noonan, Dorothy L. Powell Term Chair in Nursing, and her entire team who has received an award for her NIH R01 Administrative Supplement proposal entitled: “Development of a M-Health Smokeless Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Firefighters." This award is for a…
Irene Felsman, assistant professor, was interviewed by Sibani Ram for the article, "'Still pursuing the same dream:' LATIN-19 aims to increase healthcare access for Latinx community during pandemic," in "The Chronicle." LATIN-19, or (Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network…
Jill M. Collins, DNP'20, Michael Zychowicz, professor, and Julie Thompson, consulting associate, contributed to “Implementation of a Standardized Robotic Assistant Surgical Training Curriculum” in "Journal of Robotic Surgery."
Abstract
Since 2000, robotic-assisted surgery has…
Michael Zychowicz, professor, delivered two podium presentations virtually at the 11th International Council of Nurses — Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice (ICN - NP/APN) Network Conference (August 29 to September 1). The presentations were "Nurse Practitioner Education and the Technological…
Danielle P. Clement, MSN'18, and Associate Professors Kara McGee and Kathryn Trotter co-wrote "PrEP for women: An update for healthcare providers" for "Women's Healthcare."
Introduction
Women account for almost 20% of all new diagnoses of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)…