Due to pandemic restrictions, the current Nurse Anesthesia-DNP students opted to provide a Welcome Video to the incoming class of 2023. Typically, the current students would host the incoming students at group gathering. This year, the virtual effort was headed by NAP class representatives…
Angela Richard-Eaglin, assistant professor, Janet Campbell, consulting associate, and Queen Utley-Smith, associate professor emerita, published an article entitled "The Aging Veteran Population: Promoting Awareness to Influence Best Practices" in Geriatric Nursing.
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DUSON was featured in the Duke Today article "How Duke Faculty Are Going Back to School" by Eric Ferreri. Ferreri focused specifically on the safety measures enforced in the Center for Nursing Discovery over the summer for those who needed to come to the building. A photo of the students…
The Institute for Educational Excellence (IEE) held its 13th Annual Clinical Instructor Intensive, Rising to the Occasion: Lasting Lessons from Teaching During Change, on August 11. This year, it was offered virtually via Zoom with 92 in attendance from across the country as well as the…
DUSON recently received a HRSA award of approximately $1.2 million to continue offering the Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) for another year.
The program is to support eligible DNP students and MSN students majoring in Nursing Education who are committed to becoming a nurse faculty member in an…
Faculty, staff and student leads from our five Racial Justice Task Force working groups will be attending all three Town Hall meetings this week (one for faculty, one for staff and one for students) to receive feedback on their newly drafted recommendations. Please join us to share your…
The Student Success Center aims to promote mental health, provide emotional support, and connect students to resources at Duke and beyond. The Center is co-led by Brandon Knettel, assistant professor and licensed psychologist, and Sean Convoy, assistant professor and lead faculty in the Psychiatric…
Michael P. Cary, associate professor, Schenita D. Randolph, assistant professor, Dean Marion E. Broome, and Brigit M. Carter, associate dean for diversity and inclusion, published the "Creating a culture that values diversity and inclusion: An action‐oriented framework for schools of…
Anne L. Derouin, associate professor, will participate in the virtual event "Substance Use Prevention with Equity: A Community & Neuroscience-Based Approach” on Sept. 25. The event is jointly sponsored by Together for Resilient Youth Drug Free Community Coalition and the Center on…
Angela Richard-Eaglin, assistant professor and chair of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Diversity Special Interest Group (SIG), led efforts in developing a three-part webinar series entitled "Eliminating Microaggressions in Academia." Richard-Eaglin and Iris…
Tech Tip of the Week
Here is a quick refresher on creating your best online presence:
Think about Zoom the same as if you were sitting at a table in a conference room. It’s natural to show your head and shoulders in your camera feed. Anything more or less…
Jamie Wrenshall-Ridout, MSN '00, has been nominated as treasurer of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), a nationally-recognized professional organization. Wrenshall-Ridout is the administrator of Raleigh-based Capital City Surgery Center, a multi-specialty…
Sarah Rollison, DNP '18, was recently named the interim chief CRNA for Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She joined the CRNA management team in 2020 as lead of orientation and special projects. Congratulations, Sarah!
Stephanie Frisch, MSN alum, was selected as one of three Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)'s Future of Nursing Scholars. She will receive a post-doctoral fellowship award this year. The three Scholars are members of the program’s fourth cohort and will each receive $50,000 from…
The Event Management System (EMS) now works with Outlook. Learn how to book a video conference or meeting in EMS through Outlook on the Faculty and Staff Resources page.
Kudos to Julia Walker, professor, and her entire team for the submission of their NIH R01 application entitled: "Novel Biased Beta2-AR Ligands as Asthma Therapeutics." This proposal requests funding for a five-year period with a start date…
Jennie De Gagne, professor, has become a VoiceThread Certified Educator. To earn this credit, she completed a two-week online course and a capstone project demonstrating mastery of VoiceThread’s various features and sound pedagogy through course design. De Gagne's capstone project involved an…
Marilyn Oermann, Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing, presented the webinars "Assessment of Learning: Formative" and "Summative Tools and Developing Evidence-based Clinical Evaluation Tools." These webinars were provided by DB Productions.
Beth McVey, DNP '16, published "Evidence-Based Approach to Healthy Food Choices for Hispanic Women" in the Hispanic Health Care International, the official journal of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. B. Iris Padilla, assistant professor, is listed as a co-author. …
Amie Koch, assistant professor, wrote "Improving the health of mothers living in poverty" for the American Nurse journal produced by the American Nurses Association (ANA). The article discusses the evidence-based healthy lifestyle curriculum Koch created for mothers living in poverty…
Kudos to Amnazo Muhirwa, PhD student, and her sponsor Devon Noonan, associate professor, for the submission of her NRSA Fellowship application entitled: “Stress, the Superwoman Schema and Cardiovascular Wellbeing in Rural African American Women." This proposal requests funds for a two-…
Dean Marion E. Broome chairs American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)'s new Research-Focused Doctoral Program Pathways to Excellence Task Force. The task force is charged with revising AACN’s 2010 position statement on The Research-Focused Doctoral Program in Nursing:…
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has elected Lisa Macon Harrison, DUSON consulting associate and local health director of Granville Vance Public Health, to its 2020-2021 Board of Directors as Vice President. NACCHO is the voice of the nation’s nearly 3…
The Duke Center for REsearch to AdvanCe Healthcare Equity (REACH Equity) is seeking applications for an internal mentored research career development award (CDA) for junior investigators proposing research related to the Center’s theme of addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health by…