DUSON’s Sigma Beta Epsilon chapter awarded PhD students Lesley Rink and Paula Koppel Rising Stars of Research and Scholarships monetary awards to attend and present their research at Sigma’s Creating Healthy Work Environments Conference from February 18 to 20. Awardees will be…
Heather Paradis, MSN'95 and member of the DUSON Nursing Alumni Council, is featured in Duke Cancer Institute's "Fighting on Both Sides of Cancer Care" article. Paradis cared for cancer patients at Duke University Hospital as a hematology-oncology nurse practitioner for 27 years and lost…
Benjamin Smallheer, associate professor, and Danett Cantey, clinical nurse educator, are members of the newly formed Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity (IncluDE) committee within the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL). The adhoc committee was formed in…
From February 17 through April 27, the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences will be hosting a six-part mental health webinar series, "Taking Care of Yourself and Your Loved Ones." The 30-minute topical webinars are designed to provide practical expert advice for Duke University and…
Emily M. Funk, assistant professor, presented for the Triangle Area Perioperative Nurses (TAPAN) Annual Conference: Unmasking the Challenges in Perianesthesia Nursing on February 6. The topic was “Foreign Body Aspiration and Ingestion in Children."
Jennie De Gagne, professor, received the certificate of completion for the Instructional Designer Course 4: Course Quality Review (January 11 – February 7, 2021). This certificate has permitted her to became an OLC Course Quality Review (OSCQR) Trainer (issued by Online Learning Consortium).…
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How many windows do you have open on your desktop right now? We've all been there, so many windows and apps open on your laptop that you can't find the one that you need.
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Eleanor Stevenson, chair of the Health of Women, Children & Families Division, and Mitchell Knisely, assistant professor, presented at the NHLBI’s Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium (SCDIC) Steering Committee Meeting on Monday, February 8. The meeting was held via Zoom…
Proposals are due for the Bass Connections Student Research Award by March 5 by 5 p.m.
Bass Connections creates opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to work alongside faculty to explore societal challenges through interdisciplinary research teams. The Bass Connections Student…
Michele L. Kuszajewski, assistant director of Center for Nursing Discovery, is the lead author and task force co-chair who helped create the Society for Simulation in Healthcare "SSH Simulation Program Policy and Procedure Manual Model Template Addendum: Pandemic Reentry Policy Considerations in a…
Chris Muckler, associate professor, recently presented at the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), an annual conference hosted by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. As co-chair of the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists’ (NBCRNA)…
Learning Innovation recently announced a new seed-funding and technical assistance program called Carry the Innovation Forward. They are soliciting proposals from faculty of all disciplines who want to use their experiences from pandemic teaching to innovate the future of teaching and learning at…
Benjamin A. Smallheer, associate professor, has been invited to serve as the new consulting editor for Nursing Clinics of North America by Elsevier. A perfect source to consult for nurses in hospitals, private practice, ambulatory care centers, or in an academic setting, Nursing Clinics…
Megan Freed, research program leader, started with DUSON in January. She comes to DUSON with core expertise in strategic communications, participant/audience engagement, and development of digital health technologies to improve community health and advance social policy. For more than 15 years…
Congratulations to Angela Richard-Eaglin (21-23), assistant professor, for being selected as the 2021-2023 IEE Teaching Fellow! Richard-Eaglin will complete a project entitled “Cultural Intelligence and Bias Management for Health Professionals." She plans to develop an innovative, stand-alone…
Postdoc Stephanie Ibemere joined the Duke University School of Nursing a year ago, bringing with her a vast experience as a registered nurse and researcher.
Over the last year, Ibemere has published or contributed to articles on treatment of vaso-occlusive episodes for sickle cell disease;…
On February 2, more than 220 people attended the 58th Harriet Cook Carter Lecture "The Future of Nursing: A Look Back and A Look Ahead" from 3 to 4:45 p.m.
This year's featured speaker was Susan B. Hassmiller, senior adviser for Nursing for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and director of the…
Dean Marion E. Broome and Brigit Carter, associate dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, are featured in AACN's "10 Ways Academic Nursing is Addressing Structural Racism" video. An additional video of just them is also featured on the AACN Gallery of Leadership - Addressing Racism and…
Ken Wofford, PhD '12, has been named a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM). The achievement recognizes members of the Wilderness Medical Society who have fulfilled a demanding set of training and experience in the specialty niche of Wilderness Medicine. Wofford is currently an…
Valerie Howard, vice dean of Academic Affairs, presented for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare: International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare presentation on February 1. The event was originally scheduled for New Orleans.
The topic was "Simulation Volatility, Uncertainty,…
The inaugural "Time to Put It Into Practice: A Primer on Artificial Intelligence & its Applications for Nursing" occurred on January 29 and was sponsored by the Data Science Research Area of Excellence in the Center for Nursing Research. In attendance were 65 participants from…
Kudos to Paula Koppel, PhD student, and her sponsor Jennie De Gagne, professor, for the submission of her American Holistic Nurses Association application entitled: "Exploring Nurse and Patient Experiences of Rapport during Oncology Ambulatory Care Videoconferencing Visits: A Qualitative…
Jennie C. De Gagne, professor, Paula D. Koppel, PhD student, Hyeyoung K. Park, PhD '19, and Sharron Rushton, assistant professor, contributed to "Pedagogical foundations of cybercivility in health professions education: a scoping review" in BMC Medical Education.
Abstract…
Please join us for the next Research Development Workshop Series, “Hiding in Plain Sight: All about Grant Supplements” on February 11 from noon to 1 p.m. on Zoom.
More funding, bigger impact. Hear from our faculty and staff about how to leverage your NIH Parent Grant for additional funding…