The PhD Program is thrilled to announce that Wendy Perry will be joining us as our Program Coordinator. Perry brings to the PhD program her success as the Operations Coordinator for the HEA II, where she provided a very high level of logistic and administrative support for the overall operations.…
Congratulations to Ryan Shaw, associate professor, who has received an award for his Oregon Health Sciences University proposal entitled: “Integrating Patient Generated Digital Health Data into Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care Settings." This award is for a one-year period, awarded…
I am pleased to announce Stephanie Ibemere, PhD, RN, will join DUSON’s faculty, on July 1, 2021, and will be a member of the Healthcare of Adult Populations Division.
Ibemere holds a BS in Natural Sciences, a BA in Spanish, and an MSN in Clinical Nurse Leadership, all from Xavier University in…
Let's congratulate our faculty who have been promoted, provided emerita status and appointed at rank and who were approved for the School of Nursing during the February 26, 2021, Board of Trustees meeting.
Promotions
Tolulope Oyesanya, assistant professor in the School of Nursing…
James Carter, Sr., was the first Black full professor of psychiatry in the Duke University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
"While my father-in-law was a psychiatrist, his goal was to support all mental health practitioners and valued nurses and advanced practice nurses…
Brandon Knettel, assistant professor, moderated the Think Global panel on "Telemedicine and Mental Health Support for People who use Opioids: Considerations for Treatment, Community Engagement, and Public Policy" presented by Duke Global Health Institute. A recording of the event can be found…
Donna Biederman, associate professor, and Christian Douglas, consulting associate, contribute to "Eviction as a Disruptive Factor in Health Care Utilization: Impact on Hospital Readmissions and No-show Rates" in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Peter Callejo-…
All of our School of Nursing community is invited to join us to participate in the dissemination of this excellent work from our PhD students.
Robyn Wojeck
Title: Symptom Trajectories and Self Management in Systemic Sclerosis
Tuesday, March 16, 10 a.m. – noon
Chair-Chip Bailey,…
Several DUSON faculty receive a 2020-2021 Duke Faculty Advancement Seed Grant for their project "Confronting Racism and Bias in Health Education Programs Using Trigger Films." The Co-PIs include Margie Molloy, associate professor, Assistant Professors Angela Richard-Eaglin and Nicole…
The 3rd North Carolina Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology Symposium will be April 23. Log-in is from 8:45 to 9 a.m., and the program will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This event will be hosted by the UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC.
The 3rd North Carolina Adolescent and Young Adult…
Dean Marion E. Broome publishes "Innovations in Ph.D. education to prepare nurse scientists for the future" in the Journal of Professional Nursing. The article will have open access until April 21.
Abstract
The University of Pennsylvania sponsored a PhD summit in October 2019 to…
Hanzhang Xu, assistant professor, was recently awarded an Early Career Investigator Award by the American Heart Association to utilize data from GWTG-Stroke for her research entitled “Patient Characteristics, Quality of Care, and In-hospital Outcomes for Acute Ischemic Stroke ─ An…
Heather Rivasplata, DNP'20, publishes "A Continued Professional Development Nursing Partnership in a Remote Bolivian Hospital" for The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing. Jane Blood-Siegfried, professor, and Irene Felsman, assistant professor, are among the co-authors.
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Benjamin Smallheer, associate professor, has been invited to join the advisory committee for the King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University For Health Sciences, College of Nursing-Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia in developing their first Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP Program and…
The suspension put into place by the COVID-19 Addendum to Duke’s Global Travel Policy will be extended to August 8, 2021.
The specific criteria required for exceptions to this suspension to allow travel may be revised and possibly broadened if warranted by positive developments such as declining…
Kudos to Donna Biederman, associate professor, and her entire team for being selected by Duke to submit her institutionally limited nomination application to the Dr. Scholls Foundation. The proposal title “Durham Homeless Care Transitions: Moving Home” requests funding for a one-year period…
Several people from DUSON including Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor, Rosa Solorzano, consulting associate, Irene Felsman, assistant professor, and Jane Blood-Siegfried, professor, recently helped vaccinate 500 people at a COVID vaccination sponsored by Duke Raleigh.
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor, and Schenita Randolph, assistant professor, co-developed a course with the Duke Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) titled: Community & Stakeholder Engagement: Definitions, Principles, & Approaches. This course highlights key…
Angela Richard-Eaglin, assistant professor, was invited to serve as guest editor of Nursing Clinics of North America for the issue devoted to vulnerable populations. The issue will be published in 2022. A perfect source to consult for nurses in hospitals, private practice, ambulatory care…
Jennie De Gagne, professor, led the Korean translation of a book entitled "Clinical Teaching Strategies in Nursing," co-authored by Marilyn Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing. The fifth edition book was published by Hyunmoonsa, one of the top presses that focus on medicine,…
Amie Koch, assistant professor, published "Rooting Out White Supremacy and Implementing Antiracism in Nursing Education" for Creative Nursing.
Abstract
Discussing racism is challenging for nurse educators and nursing students because White privilege and racial…
Tyler Terry, MSN'19, published "Buprenorphine Induction in Primary Care Using an In-Office Approach" in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners.
Abstract
Opioid use disorder is an under-recognized and undertreated clinical problem frequently encountered in primary care.…
AnnMarie Walton, assistant professor, and Daniel Hatch, biostatistician III, contributed to "A Comparison of Pesticide Risk Beliefs between Farmers and Farmworkers: Implications for Risk Communication and Education" in Journal of Agromedicine.
Abstract
Understanding the…
Marilyn Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing, was the keynote speaker at the AACN Commission on Nurse Certification 2021 Virtual CNL Research Symposium: Back to Basics! How CNLs Evaluate and Apply Research on February 24. Her speech was on “CNLs Beware: Avoiding Predatory Journals in…
Raymond Brisson III, technical operations coordinator, Center for Nursing Discovery, Tiffiany Parker, simulation technology specialist, Rémi Hueckel, associate professor, and Nicole Petsas Blodgett, director of the Center for Nursing Discovery, were selected for a poster…