Several DUSON faculty and staff recently volunteered their time at TROSA during their COVID vaccination clinic. The clinic provided the second dose of the COVID vaccine to 200 of their residents and staff. Working with TROSA's campus nurse practitioner, Sarah Cottingham, were faculty members Midge…
As part of the 2021 Health Professions Education Day, Duke AHEAD and Duke IPEC will present March Education Grand Rounds: Innovation Grant Presentations, where attendants where learn more about the exciting projects faculty have developed as part of the Duke AHEAD and IPEC Center grants.…
Ryan Shaw, associate professor, will be the presenter of University of Buffalo School of Nursing's 24th Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture on April 16.
The Bullough lecture, which begins at 9:15 a.m. following 9 a.m. opening remarks (both delivered via Zoom), will highlight the school's…
PhD students Amnazo Muhirwa and Lesley Rink have received awards for their Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) Small Grant proposals.
Amnazo Muhirwa
Muhirwa and her faculty sponsor Devon Noonan, associate professor, received an award…
Registration is now open for 2021 Education Day! Join us virtually on March 12 from 9 a.m. to 1:15 pm. This year's theme is "The COVID Effect: Teaching, Leading & Caring During Challenging Times." Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, of Family Medicine and Community Health, is the…
Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship is now accepting applications for the Duke Incubation Fund (the "Fund"), which now provides up to $40K per project of seed funding for early-stage technologies and ideas at Duke with potential for commercialization.
The Fund supports novel ideas, applied…
The DUSON Student Success Center is partnering with Koru teachers, Jacquelyn McMillian-Bohler, assistant professor, and Lesley Rink, PhD student, to offer a DUSON Koru Mindfulness course! The four-week course will be held on Tuesdays, March 16, 23, 30, and April 6 from 4 to 5:15 p.m.,…
After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife. Join DUSON Student Council for a Zoom screening of Disney and Pixar's "Soul" on March 5 at 7 p.m.! Zoom link will be provided to all who register.…
Duke Civic Engagement is administering several awards to recognize outstanding community engagement among members of the Duke community.
The Lars Lyon Volunteer Service Award recognizes a rising sophomore, junior, or senior at Duke who has made a difference in the work of a local school or…
Kudos to Tolu Oyesanya, assistant professor, and her entire team for the submission of their application to the Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) administered by Wake Forest University. The proposal title “Resilience Across the Lifespan in the Early Post-Acute Period for Patients…
DUSON is a co-collaborator of the 2021 Interprofessional Education Conference presented by the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, School of Nursing and in collaboration with the University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing. The theme will be "Building Alliance Through…
Devon Noonan, associate professor, was accepted to the Multilevel Intervention Training Institute (MLTI). The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) hosts this training institute to provide participants with a thorough grounding in conducting…
Valerie Howard, vice dean of Academic Affairs, co-published "Corporate leadership training: Value added for your simulation center" for the Journal of Professional Nursing.
Abstract
Academic leaders in nursing have invested vast resources such as dedicated space,…
Hanzhang Xu, assistant professor, has been chosen to be one of the 12 Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) Scholars for the AGING Initiative MCCs Scholars Program. The program is a cohort of emerging leaders who are committed to pursuing training and collaborative opportunities to align…
Ragan Johnson, assistant professor, was invited to be an inaugural executive advisory board member of Medscape's COVID-19 Resource Center. Among the many responsibilities in this role, Johnson will provide insight on information that should be included on the website, provide brief commentaries on…
Ragan Johnson, assistant professor, conducted a webinar for National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) on February 18 titled "Connecting with preceptors on anti-racism." Johnson serves on NONPF's Faculty and Preceptor Development Committee and was invited to develop the…
Kathryn Kreider, associate professor, was interviewed by Derek Bagley for his article "Essential Workers: Why Endocrine Nurses Are More Important Than Ever" in Endocrine News.
Article At a Glance
Endocrine nurses’ roles continue to shift and grow as health care becomes…
Danett S. Cantey, clinical nurse educator, has been selected to present "Virtual Lab Hours for Clinical Skills in Prelicensure Nursing Students: Designing, Managing, and Lessons Learned" for a 45-minute podium session at the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and…
More than 220 attendants within and outside the Duke University School of Nursing logged onto Zoom on February 2 to hear more about “The Future of Nursing: A Look Back and A Look Ahead,” when the School presented its 58th annual Harriet Cook Carter Lecture.
This year's featured speaker was…
Several faculty, staff devote time researching aspects of disease, its treatment.
About 100,000 Americans live with sickle cell disease (SCD), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One of every 365 of those Americans are of Black or African American births.…
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students, faculty and staff from around Duke have been learning about mindfulness and meditation through a Koru Mindfulness course co-hosted by the Duke University School of Nursing.
The course is hosted by Jacqui McMillian-Bohler, assistant professor…
Dominique Bulgin, PhD’19, currently serves as a consulting associate and postdoctoral fellow with the Duke National Clinician Scholars Program.
Bulgin’s desire to enter the nursing field stems from the experiences of her mom and her mom’s sister, who had leukemia and died at the age of 35. After…
Tolu O. Oyesanya, PhD, RN, assistant professor, has been with the Duke University School of Nursing since 2018 and teaches in the PhD Program.
In May, she received the Outstanding PhD Faculty Award and the Early Career Scientist Award during the School’s annual awards ceremony and a Graduate…
Greetings from the ODEI!
We are beginning a new method of community communication to provide information on the upcoming events and also just general information on progression of events and initiatives within our office. We will do a survey at the end of a six-month period to determine the…
Applications are now being accepted for Duke Health's Primary Care Preceptor Development Mini-Fellowship Program, administered by the Duke Physician Assistant Program. This mini-fellowship offers clinician educators (licensed PAs, NPs, MDs, and DOs who serve as primary care providers), a…