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…
Ran Xiao, assistant professor, co-published “Electroencephalography measures of relative power and coherence as reaching skill emerges in infants born preterm" for Scientific Reports. Xiao provides equal contribution and shares co-first authorship of the paper. The study provides insights into…
Two faculty members were featured in the Duke Black Think Tank email newsletter sent February 12. Michael Cary, associate professor, was recognized for receiving the Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award, a Samuel DuBois Cook Society award and Tolu Oyesanya, assistant professor, for…
The following second-semester ABSN students were recently approved by the D-CHIPP Executive Committee to become student affiliates: Diana Hope Bennett, Tomi Jegede, Harmeet Kaur, Tyler Power, and Alesha Pressley. Student affiliates have additional opportunities to engage in and learn about…
Kudos to Hanzhang Xu, assistant professor, and her entire team for the submission of the National Institutes of Health R21 application entitled: “Developing a Mobile App-Based Intervention to Promote Cognitive Health in Older Chinese Americans.” This proposal requests funding for a two-year…
Kudos to Tolu Oyesanya, assistant professor, and her entire team for the submission of the National Institutes of Health R21 application entitled: “Improving The Transition from Acute Hospital Care to Home for Older Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury and Families." This proposal requests funding…
Laura Hollister-Meadows, DNP'20, published "Association between evidence-based training and clinician proficiency in electronic health record use" in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Jennie De Gagne, professor, and Rachel Richesson, former associate professor,…
Staci Reynolds, assistant professor, and alumna Jessica Tang and Emily Thomesen, both ABSN'17, contributed to "Impact of Citrus Essential Oil Diffusion on Health Care Staff's Stress Levels: An Evidence-Based Practice Project" in Holistic Nursing Practice. Elyse Hodges, of Duke Neurosurgery of…
Dominique Bulgin, PhD '19, consulting associate, published "Lessons from implementing community‐based group classes for severe hypertension" for Public Health Nursing. Yunah Kang, ABSN'20, Bradi Granger, professor, Collette A. Whitney and Holly R. Biola, of Duke School of Medicine, and…
As part of Duke Health's commitment to getting the vaccine to those most impacted by COVID-19, they partnered with the community to pilot two “pop-up” vaccine clinics. On February 9, Duke Health joined other community partners including Latino Community Credit Union, La Semilla, El Centro…
Julee Waldrop, DNP'10, will serve as the assistant dean of the DNP Program beginning on June 1, 2021!
Waldrop earned a BA in Education with a specialization in physical education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her BSN from Texas Woman’s University and MS from the University of…
Marilyn H. Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles professor of nursing, publishes "Research in nursing education and the institutional review board/ethics committee" in Journal of Professional Nursing.
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Background
Institutional review board (IRB) or…
Tom Blodgett, assistant professor, co-wrote "Perceptions of a Nurse-Driven Urinary Catheter Removal Protocol in a Hospital Setting" in the March/April issue of Clinical Nurse Specialist. He and his co-author found that the small sample of nurses generally viewed nurse-driven catheter…
Unique Whitehurst, MSN student, is excited to share that she has been selected as a fellow for the inaugural GradEngage Fellowship, hosted by the Kenan Institute for Ethics. This fellowship supports graduate students as they deepen their relationship and/or research with a Durham-based…
Michelle Webb, assistant professor, was a featured speaker for The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s webinar "Caring for People with Serious Illness In the Home: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic" on February 16 from noon to 1:30 p.m. EST. The roundtable was a…
Jamie Kyei-Frimpong, DNP student, published "Exercise as medicine: Providing practitioner guidance on exercise prescription" in Preventive Medicine Reports. Jane Blood-Siegfried, professor, is a co-author.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a…
The School of Medicine's Department of Population Health Sciences' virtual Summer Institute is now offering 10 workshops, taught by expert Duke Faculty, that will support your research goals. You’ll strengthen your foundational knowledge in population health sciences and learn new research methods…
Honey Jones, MSN'11, consulting associate, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners on June 25, 2020, and as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine on February 5. She is humbled by the recognition and honored to have the…
The new edition of "Teaching in Nursing and Role of the Educator, Third Edition: The Complete Guide to Best Practice in Teaching, Evaluation, and Curriculum Development" was just published. Theeditors are: Marilyn H. Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing, Jennie C. De Gagne, professor…