Data is the foundation of scientific discovery and how we manage, store, govern and share it is essential for upholding scientific integrity.
Data management is a hot topic at many federal agencies including NIH and NSF. AHRQ published a notice on May 26, 2020, regarding its new policy requiring…
International collaborations in research and education are vital to our work in advancing Duke’s mission. Due to a number of threats identified in 2018 related to foreign influence and diversion of intellectual property, many federal agencies such as NIH, NSF and DOD have increased scrutiny on…
The NIH now requires FORMS-F for proposal application submissions. Tour this six-minute video which describes each of the five sections of a study record and points out which fields are required for human subjects and clinical trial studies. You can also view a summary of significant form changes,…
Susan Silva, associate professor, will step in as interim director of the Research Design and Statistics Core, located in the school's Center for Nursing Research, from July 13 to September 1. Silva temporarily will replace Shein-Chung Chow, who has …
Ernest J. Grant has been re-elected to a second term as the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) national president. The voting representatives of ANA's Membership Assembly also elected four members to the nine-member board of directors. Terms of service will begin January 1, 2021. Visit the ANA…
Tech Tip of the Week
Think your internet speed is slow? Find out! SpeedTest.net is a great, easy site to check your connection speed. It is browser-safe and should work on any of your devices, even your phone.
Here are some good rules of thumb for…
Kudos to Karin Reuter-Rice, associate professor, and her entire team for the submission of her American College of Radiology (U54) subcontract application entitled: “Neuroimaging, Oculomotor, and Blood-Based Biologic Markers of Persistent Concussive Symptoms in the Early and Middle Adolescent…
Tara Hart, BSN '15, MSN '17, was featured in a news profile that outlets including Health News Today and Switching Fashion ran. The article discusses her time at Duke and her career.
"Tara’s desire to pursue the field of nursing initially developed due to her passion for bedside patient care…
MSN student Angela Tatis has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) Board of Directors (BOD) Student Scholarship. She was selected as one of 32 pre-licensure/undergraduate and graduate students who will participate in the…
The "Pediatric Acute Care: A Guide for Interprofessional Practice, 2nd Edition," co-edited by Karin Reuter-Rice, associate professor, has been released.
Highlighting the latest evidence, research and clinical practice in pediatric acute care, "Pediatric Acute Care" is the…
Congratulations to Ellie McConnell, associate professor, and her team on her recent Durham Center for Senior Life/Administration For Community Living (ACL)/ Department of Health and Human Services Administration For Community Living subcontract award for the Dementia Inclusive Durham:…
DUSON ABSN students are shown volunteering with Curamericas Global in the CBS 17 story "Raleigh nonprofit wants to teach Spanish-speaking volunteers about COVID-19 contact tracing" by Laura Smith. Curamericas is a nonprofit that boosted its outreach to Spanish-speaking residents in…
D-CHIPP, together with the DUSON Office of Development, recently submitted a grant proposal to the Emmy Lou Tompkins Foundation. The one-year effort will establish a health education program for the residents at McDougald Terrace, Durham Housing Authority’s (DHA) largest property. D-CHIPP worked…
The Pearson Building reentry last week and the return of the DNP Nurse Anesthesia students were focuses of the Duke Today article "Behind the Scenes: Duke's School of Nursing Building Reopens."
Excerpt
Last week, a small dose of life returned as around 50 students…
Ryan Shaw, associate professor, was highlighted in the Duke Pratt School of Engineering news article "'Covidentify' Adapts to Address a Changing Pandemic." Shaw is a leader on the CovIdentify study, which is analyzing whether data from smartphones and smartwatches can detect COVID symptoms in…
Duke University will be a tobacco-free campus starting July 1. This policy will affect all property and grounds owned and leased by Duke University and will prohibit the use of all tobacco-based products, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, hookahs, chewing…
Tech Tip of the Week
Thanks to all who submitted song titles for The Great DUSON Covid-19 Playlist, which was shown on the video wall when students reentered the building recently. You told us which songs to add, and we added them.
Didn’t get a chance to see it…
I am pleased to inform you that the following appointments, promotion and changes of status were approved for the School of Nursing during the June 12, 2020 Board of Trustees meeting. Please join me in congratulating our colleagues!
Promotions
Sophia K. Smith,…
Qing Yang, assistant professor, Daniel Hatch, biostatistician III, Jacqueline Vaughn, PhD student, and Associate Professors Dori Steinberg and Ryan Shaw co-author "Digital Phenotyping Self-Monitoring Behaviors for Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus:…
Congratulations to Ryan Shaw, associate professor, and his entire team who have received an award for their Seneca Devices, LLC proposal entitled: "Easy ShiftTM". This award is for a one-year period awarded September 30, 2019, to September 29, 2020.
EasyShift™ allows a…
Glenn Setliff, director of Information Technology, will present "Reaching for the Sky: IT Support Transitions to the Cloud" on August 12 from 4 to 4:45 p.m., for the SupportWorld Live: A Digital Experience conference. In this interactive session, Setliff will share how the DUSON IT team…
Kudos to Devon Noonan and her entire team for the submission of her NCI R01 application entitled: “Testing the Efficacy of Two Remotely Delivered Tobacco Cessation Interventions in Underserved Older Smokers." This proposal requests funding for a five-year period with a start date of April 1,…
A cohort of 26 DNP Nurse Anesthesia students entered into the Center for Nursing Discovery (CND) on June 15, becoming the first group of students to set foot in the center in months.
While the students may have been remote, faculty and staff have remained active in the facility in order to ensure…
Four days after the murder of George Floyd, two weeks after the murder of Breonna Taylor, and nearly three months after the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, DUSON hosted its monthly Diversity Conversation for students, faculty and staff. While we host these Diversity Conversations regularly, this one was…
Tiffany Kelley, PhD '12, has written "Nurse Innovations Crucial to Pandemic Response" for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History website. The article appears under the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation's blog.
"During times of crisis,…