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U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) released its annual rankings of graduate and professional schools for 2022, and the Duke University School of Nursing was ranked #1 in each of the five MSN Specialties reviewed by the…
Dr. Travers, Ph.D., MSN, RN, FAEN, FAMIA, is the lead faculty for the MSN-Informatics program at Duke University School of Nursing. She has a strong foundation of clinical experience as an emergency nurse, informaticist, and educator. Dr. Travers has worked in informatics since the early 1990s,…
Paula Koppel, PhD student, will present "The Power of Rapport: Enhancing the Health and Well-being of Nurses and their Patients" for the annual GRADx event on Friday, March 26, from 4 to 6 p.m. This event will be hosted by the Graduate School and Society Duke Fellows. This is a TED talk…
Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, REACH Equity, and Roybal Center will present "Using the NIA Health Disparities Framework to Optimize Equity in Aging Research" on May 21 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. EST. Register online.
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, MSN'17, incoming DUSON dean, will be a participant of the report release webinar for the forthcoming report "Sexually Transmitted Infections: Adopting a Sexual Health Paradigm" on March 24 from 11 a.m. to noon. Guilamo-Ramos is the professor and associate vice…
Two medical student mentees of Donna Biederman, associate professor, were accepted into the A.C. Reid Schweitzer Fellowship program: Tamar Chukrun and Trisha Dalapati. Sally Wilson is the site mentor. The site is Project Access of Durham County. Expand the WellNest Housing Support Program…
DUSON’s resident experts in mindfulness and meditation, Jacqui McMillian-Bohler, assistant professor, and Lesley Rink, Ph.D. student, are offering free 10-minute mindfulness consultations for your classes, meetings, and working groups.
Please send an email to Jacqui and Lesley with the…
Sophia Smith, associate professor, was interviewed by ABC 11 for its story "Gov. Cooper opens vaccinations to some members of Group 4 starting next week" on March 11. She spoke from the perspective of being a two-time cancer survivor.
Duke’s Chapter of the American Association for Men in Nursing (DAMMN) recently teamed up with the Durham Boy Scout of America Troup #405 to assist them with their badge requirements for First Aid. DAAMN members and ABSN students Olivia Myszewski and Brian Oh and DAAMN President and …
The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) will support high-potential innovation projects in the areas of novel strategies to improve value of care delivery, advance health equity, amplify digital solutions for care and monitoring, strengthen provider and staff experience and well-being and…
Kudos to AnnMarie Walton, assistant professor, and her entire team for the resubmission of her Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) R21 application entitled: “Improving Practices to Limit Healthcare Workers' Exposure to Antineoplastic Drugs." This proposal requests funding for a 2-…
Kudos to Stephanie Ibemere, postdoc, and her entire team for the submission of her Duke Research Voucher Program application entitled: “Developing the Sickle Cell Disease Outpatient Satisfaction Survey (Sickle OPS2) to Assess Patient Satisfaction with Outpatient Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Chronic…
Jacqueline Vaughn, PhD alum, Ryan Shaw, associate professor, and Sharron Docherty, assistant dean, PhD in Nursing, contribute to "Seriously ill pediatric patient, parent, and clinician perspectives on visualizing symptom data" in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association:…
Jacqueline Nikpour, PhD student, published "Assessing Practice Patterns and Influential Factors for Nurse Practitioners Who Manage Chronic Pain" in the Pain Management Nursing with Dean Marion E. Broome and Susan Silva, associate professor.
Abstract
Chronic pain, defined by the…
Recent Events
Our Dear Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander Colleagues,
Today and every day we stand with you, in solidarity against all hate crimes that are rising in the Asian, Asian American and the Pacific Islander community. This can also be a very strenuous time, so…
Alexandra Femc, MSN'20, with assistance from Kathryn Trotter, associate professor, had her poster presentation accepted for the 2021 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference, to be held by The National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC). The poster is titled "Anxiety scores improve…
Maryellen S. Kelly, assistant professor, was appointed by the International Children’s Continence Society to lead a team of international experts on neurogenic bowel management and treatment to create the first standardized document on pediatric neurogenic bowel care.
Kathryn Trotter, associate professor, participated in a women’s health professional panel event on March 10 at 6 p.m., sponsored by the Femme, Trans and Women's Health interest group of the ABSN Program. 25 attended the webinar, and there are plans to have a similar event in person this…
Several of faculty and leadership are featured in the Creative Nursing – Vol. 27 #1, "In It Together: Dismantling Systems of White Supremacy."
Entrenched White Supremacy in Nursing Education Administrative Structures
Brigit Carter, associate dean for Diversity, Equity…
Brigit Carter, associate dean for Diversity, Equity…
Jacquelyn M. McMillian-Bohler, assistant professor, is a program leader in an UNC-related project. An initiative to improve birth outcomes for Black women by increasing their access to trained Black doulas has received the C. Felix Harvey Award to Advance Institutional Priorities at the University…
Staci Reynolds, assistant professor, Deborah H. Allen, director of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice and DANCE member with Duke Health, and Jill Engel, clinical associate and DNP alum, are presenters for "CHG Bathing: Evidence and Outcomes of a Nurse-Led Intervention" Nursing…
Deborah H. Allen, director of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice and DANCE member with Duke Health, received the 2020 Clinical Researcher Award from Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS). She will be honored at the SNRS Annual conference awards event virtually on Tuesday,…
Susan Catchings, DNP'20, was interviewed for the 10th episode of the Triangle Business Breakfast podcast. Hosts Nick Dowgul and Sukesh Pai interviewed Catchings and two other nurse practitioners for the special episode. The full episode can be found online.
Sarah Evans, MSN'20 and DNP student, published "Pediatric Case Report: CPT1A Arctic Variant" in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.
Introduction
Once thought to be a rare finding, carnitine palmitoyltransferase type 1A (CPT1A) is present in about 80% of western…
Although the COVID-19 pandemic placed limitations on the nurse anesthesia program’s ability to celebrate National Nurse Anesthesia Week, that did not stop the students from serving their community. The Nurse Anesthesia-DNP class of 2022 recently held a sock drive through their professional aspects…