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The Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health recently awarded 2020-21 scholarships to two medical students. Willis Wong, an MD/MBA student and mentee of Donna Biederman,…
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Michael Cary, associate professor, was invited to participate in the 2020 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Research Summit on Transforming Care for People Living with Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCCs) on November 17 and 18.…
Assistant Professors Jacquelyn McMillian-Bohler, Angela Richard-Eaglin, Ragan Johnson and Schenita Randolph served as co-facilitators for "The Impact of COVID-19 of the Black Community" virtual town hall on November 16 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Participants were invited to let their voices be heard in…
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Monica Nandwani, DNP'19, and Eleanor Stevenson, Professor, received The Stanford Health Care winning submission for their publication entitled "Impact of Nurse Practitioner Navigation on…
Angela Richard-Eaglin, assistant professor, is running for the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Board of Directors. Members are able to vote in these elections. Ballots are open until January 8.
Tech Tip of the Week
For DUSON Faculty using Zoom classrooms
Are you creating your spring 2021 syllabus? If so, please add a note instructing your students to call our IT Service Desk immediately if they are having issues with Zoom.
Here’s a draft message you…
Schenita D. Randolph, assistant professor, is a co-investigator for a recently funded PCORI grant. Nadine J. Barrett with the Duke School of Medicine, is the project lead.
Project Summary
Background: COVID-19 has brought to light the longstanding…
Celebrate the fourth ABSN semester cohort during the ABSN virtual Recognition Luncheon. Students, faculty, and staff will be recognized for their contributions. The event will be Monday from noon to 1 p.m. on Zoom .
Some answers to frequently asked questions regarding travel and the COVID-19 Addendum to the Duke policy have been posted. The FAQs discuss the Travel Policy and Addendum as well as travel restrictions and Duke's guidelines regarding its community traveling this season.
DUSON greatly values input from its graduating students to help ensure we’re providing the highest quality educational experiences, and it only takes a few minutes to evaluate your Duke experience by completing an anonymous survey. For the link, please check your Duke email for invitations to…
It is that time again! Each year we accept nominations from all of our community members for the DAISY AWARD; given out each May at the DUSON Awards Ceremony. This past May, we congratulated Nicolena Dewitt, MSN'20, Midge Bowers, associate professor, and Alyssa Lantiere, clinical instructor (…
The Chancellor’s Service Fellowship application is due on February 12 at midnight. The Chancellor’s Service Fellowship is a one-year interdisciplinary, mentored fellowship program focused on health-related community service and leadership development. The Fellowship program is designed to…
Faculty and students presented at the International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG) 2020 World Congress. This was a virtual meeting held from November 13 to 15.
Here are the students and faculty that were involved:
• Robyn Wojeck, PhD student, won first place in the Student Poster…
DNP student Benoy Pullukalayil wrote the op-ed "COVID-19 implication on flu vaccination rates" for the "Culver City Observer." Check out this recent news item to see the other op-eds recently published by fellow DNP students.
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DEAR EDITOR,
On a Saturday morning…
Jennie C. De Gagne, professor, was recently invited to give a webinar lecture entitled “Scholarship of teaching and learning: Methods for message dissemination” for the 2020-2021 Faculty fellows in the Invest in Nursing Project. The Invest in Nursing Faculty Fellowship is a one-year program…
Duke Health features DUSON in its "School of Nursing Outlines Steps for Promoting Racial Equity" story by Morag MacLachlan for the Inside Duke Health website. The story is a detailed look of DUSON's presentation during a Moments to Movement Virtual Town Hall on November 2 and …
A group of 40 students and 16 faculty in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine at Duke are participating in Moral Moments in Medicine: Pandemics, Race, Social Justice, a new course hosted by the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine in collaboration with The Purpose…
The 8th Annual Advanced Practice Provider Veterans' Health Symposium was delivered on November 13 with nearly 1,000 registrants in partnership with the Durham VA Advanced Practice Nursing Committee. This year's conference theme was Innovation and Leadership in Veteran Health Care.
This full day…
Six ABSN students from the 2020 fall cohort have been approved as D-CHIPP affiliates. Frank Garcia, Hayley Goell, Natalie Hartmond (pictured), Sara Grace Hiller (pictured), Candace Saunders, and Rebekah Smith (pictured) were all approved to become student affiliates by the D-CHIPP Executive…
Najla McClain, ABSN program coordinator and D-CHIPP staff affiliate, recently joined the Partnership for Healthy Durham Racial Equity Task Force. The goal of the task force is to build racial equity principles into the broader work of the Partnership to ensure all who live in Durham…
Rosa Persaud has joined the Dean’s Office team as of Monday, November 16, as administrative assistant to Dean Marion E. Broome. Persaud has been employed at Duke University since her family relocated to the area in 2016. She worked in the Duke University Hospital Kidney Transplant…
Amber R. Misra, DNP' 20, Marilyn H. Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing, Malinda S. Teague, assistant professor, and Leila S. Ledbetter, library liaison to DUSON, contributed to "An evaluation of websites offering caregiver education for tracheostomy and home mechanical…
Duke students are invited to participate in Winter Breakaway’s program Duke 2030 Design Sprint. The program will run January 4 to 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and guides students through an open design process to develop recommendations about the future of learning at Duke to share…
Devon Noonan, associate professor, recently presented some of the findings of her research during a D-CHIPP Community Health Academic Talk, or CHAT. The CHAT was attended by DUSON faculty, staff, and community partners. Noonan described her tobacco cessation study with Durham Housing Authority,…
Pinning is a significant milestone for any nursing student, and on Wednesday, a cohort of ABSN students achieved that milestone through a pinning ceremony.
The event consisted of four mini ceremonies from 1 to 5 p.m. Each ceremony was streamed on Zoom, and the students chose whether…