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…
Ryan J. Shaw, associate professor, was highlighted in the Duke Bass Connections "Four Faculty Teams Receive ABC Thrive Seed Grants to Improve Early Childhood Outcomes" article for his part in a project that seeks to use predictive data models to identify risk for neurodevelopmental…
Brandon Knettel, assistant professor, has been picked to participate in the Inter-CFAR Fellowship Program in Implementation Science administered by Johns Hopkins University. He will join a cohort of 24 early-stage HIV investigators from around the country in receiving didactic training and…
Schenita D. Randolph, assistant professor, has been selected to participate in an Inter-CFAR Implementation Science Fellowship.
This fellowship is an NIH-funded training opportunity in implementation science (IS) for early stage investigators (ESIs) engaging in HIV-related research. Randolph…
Kudos to Xiao Hu, Ann Henshaw Gardiner Distinguished Professor of Nursing, and his entire team for the submission of their subcontract proposal to UCLA on their awarded NIH R01 project entitled: "The Pathophysiology of Network Synchrony in Parkinson’s Disease." This proposal requests funding…
The Center of Nursing Research (CNR) has purchased Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program modules in Spanish to support Duke studies that include members of the Spanish-speaking community, according to the Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute's e-newsletter.…
A memorial stone for Libby Ladd has been placed in the Pearson courtyard. Ladd passed away unexpectedly on July 17. She had 22 years of service working at Duke, most recently being the senior program coordinator in the Center for Nursing Research.
"It is hard to imagine that it is…
Wei Pan, associate professor, and Hideyo Tsumura, PhD student, contributed to "Identification of county-level health factors associated with COVID-19 mortality in the United States" in the Journal of Biomedical Research.
Abstract
Many studies have investigated causes of…