The Duke University School of Nursing Office of Development & Alumni Affairs is pleased to announce the launch of its first-ever virtual speaker series: Campus to Couch. The series is geared towards alumni, donors and friends and will feature School of Nursing leaders, faculty,…
Student Michael Manasia has been selected as a DNP Margolis Scholar. His policy interests focus on issues around health care costs and affordability, such as financial toxicity and price transparency, particularly with regards to oncology. His future career path is focused on nursing…
This year's Great 100 Nurses in North Carolina list has been released and features several faculty, alumni and a student. Congratulations to:
Mary Lou Affronti, professor, MSN’86, DNP’13
Bradi Granger, professor, MSN’91
Louise Fleming, MSN’09
Ann Nichols, BSN…
Applications will be accepted starting July 27 to work on a Duke Bass Connection project team starting this fall. Each of the 13 teams will focus on COVID-related research. The application deadline is July 31.
Ryan Shaw, associate professor, co-received an award from Duke MEDx for CovIdentify, a study that aims to see if it can be detected if a person has COVID symptoms or not through the data collected from that person's wearable device and/or smartphone. Jessilyn Dunn with BME and …
Alice Chua, DNP '19, is one of this year's five recipients of the President's Award for Nurses in Singapore. The award, Singapore's highest accolade for the profession, recognizes nurses who have shown sustained, outstanding performance and contributions to patient care delivery,…
Tech Tip of the Week
Did you spot the phish last week? You may recall receiving a fake phishing attempt last week as part of the DHTS Phish program. Did it get you?
Congratulations to our DUSON student Brian Douthit, PhD student and MSN '17! He was…
Kudos to Xiao Hu, Ann Henshaw Gardiner Distinguished Professor of Nursing, and his entire team for the submission of their NIH R01 transfer application entitled: "Integrate Dynamic System Model and Machine Learning for Calibration-Free Noninvasive ICP." This proposal requests funding for…
Kudos to Tara Albrecht, assistant professor, and her entire team for the submission of her Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation application entitled: “Build Stamina: A novel supportive intervention for vulnerable adults with acute leukemia and their caregivers.” This proposal requests funding…
Jewel Scott, MSN '06 and PhD '20, was a panelist for the NIH - Summer Health Professionals Education Program (SHPEP)'s virtual Diversity Day on July 9. Participants were undergraduate students who applied and were accepted into the SHPEP summer program and represent universities …
Jewel Scott, MSN '06 and PhD '20, Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor, and Leigh Ann Simmons, consulting professor, coauthored “Equity in Genomics: A Brief Report on Cardiovascular Health Disparities in African American Adults" in The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. The…
The Duke University School of Nursing Office of Development & Alumni Affairs is pleased to announce the launch of our first-ever virtual speaker series: Campus to Couch, geared towards alumni, donors and friends.
This series will feature School of Nursing leaders, faculty, students, and alumni…
Jacqueline Nikpour, PhD student, is one of this year's recipients of AcademyHealth's Alice S. Hersh Student Scholarship. Applications are judged partly based on the applicant's commitment to the field of health services research or health policy and their potential to contribute to health…
Monica Meza, clinical placement coordinator, was featured on the Working@Duke Facebook page for her weekly yoga practice. She began practicing yoga in October with the help of the DUSON's weekly yoga class for employees led by yoga instructor Jeannie Minnick, who continues to teach the class…
The LiveWell RERC has opened its 2020-21 annual App Factory grant competition to fund development of assistive and accessibility mobile apps. There is a special interest in funding apps that improve health and function, commonly referred to as mobile health (mHealth) and mobile…
Schenita Randolph, assistant professor, was highlighted in The New York Times' article "Keeping Kids Curious About Their Bodies Without Shame" by Jenny Marder. The article discusses how to talk to children about body curiosity and setting boundaries for their behavior. Randolph's 2017 coauthored…
Duke University School of Nursing’s Institute for Educational Excellence invites you to register for the virtual 2020 Clinical Instructor Intensive “Rising to the Occasion: Lasting Lessons from Teaching During Change," which will be held online Tuesday, August 11, from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m…
Jibran Majeed, DNP student, co-wrote "When a Cancer Patient Tests Positive for Covid-19" for the Harvard Business Review.
Excerpt
The Covid-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented demands on health care providers, among them the need to monitor patients remotely. Among the most…
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, associate professor, was featured in The Chronicle's "Duke professors work to fight COVID-19 in local Latinx community" story. The story highlights the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19 (Latin-19) community group with…
Blanca Iris Padilla, assistant professor, was part of a panel about COVID and the Latinx population on behalf of Duke and Lincoln Community Health Center (LCHC). The virtual panel was coordinated by the Durham County outreach coordinator and featured participants from Durham…
Prospective and accepted ABSN students for the Spring 2021 cohort logged into an interactive, two-part Zoom session on Friday, July 17, for the ABSN's Program's Duke Days event. The event ran from noon to 2:30 p.m.
The students were able to ask questions from DUSON faculty and staff in the…
Melanie Pitts, MSN '09 and DNP '19, and Jane Blood-Siegfried, professor, contributed to the article, "Early Peanut Protein Introduction in Clinical Practice," which is in the process of being published in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing.
Ran Xiao, assistant professor, and Xiao Hu, professor, recently had their “Generalizability of SuperAlarm via Cross-Institutional Performance Evaluation” manuscript accepted for publication in IEEE Access. The study offers valuable insights into the generalizability of SuperAlarm, a…
The Center for Nursing Research (CNR) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2020 Pilot Funding Program application cycle is upon us. The program is open to DUSON faculty members interested in conducting pilot and/or feasibility studies that will lead to a NIH R-level or equivalent grant…
Tech Tip of the Week
Planning to join a Zoom meeting while sitting by the pool at your favorite hotel in Maui?
If you decide to use a public WiFi (hotel, restaurant, gym, etc.) for Zoom, the chance of having the bandwidth you need for a good experience is pretty slim.…