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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
More than 200 ABSN students were celebrated during the 16th ABSN Commitment to Excellence Ceremony, held virtually on March 1.
The ceremony serves to support the students who are beginning their clinical rotations, reminding them of the community and guidance the program offers these students. In…
In 1974, the Granville and Vance County health departments merged to form the Granville Vance District Health Department. In 2015, the organization rebranded to its current name — Granville Vance Public Health (GVPH).
Supported by 80-plus employees, GVPH‘s overarching goal is to elevate the…
Our PhD students choose an array of pressing topics to concentrate on in their research endeavors. Here are the students who have picked matters pertaining specifically to the health care of the African American and Black communities.
Amnazo Muhirwa
Amnazo Muhirwa is focusing her…
Michael Cary, associate professor, was recognized for receiving the Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award, a Samuel DuBois Cook Society award, during the Society's awards ceremony on February 23. Event coverage is featured in the Duke Today article "Seven Honored by Cook Society for…
Kudos to Ran Xiao, assistant professor, Jessica Zegre-Hemsey, of UNC Chapel Hill, and their entire team for the submission of their Duke/UNC CTSA Consortium Collaborative Pilot Project Award application entitled: “Early prediction of myocardial infarction using prehospital ECG through deep…
Donna Biederman, associate professor, wrote a letter to the Health Care for the Homeless Respite Care Providers' Network (RCPN) members, which was included in their newsletter. Biederman is the new chair of the RCPN Steering Committee.
The 2020 Durham County Community Health Assessment is now available on the website for the Partnership for Healthy Durham. The 2020 Durham County health priorities are affordable housing, access to health care and insurance, poverty, mental health, obesity, diabetes and food access. These,…
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…