Cherie Conley, PhD student, has received the 2019/2020 PhD Distinguished Dissertation Award. PhD students Morine Cebert, Vanessa Curlee, Bada Kang, Michelle Franklin, Lisa Mansfield, and Jane Ralphe were also nominated.
Sharron Docherty, associate professor, was one of the authors of "The Need for a Serious Illness Digital Ecosystem (SIDE) to Improve Outcomes for Patients Receiving Palliative and Hospice Care" article in The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC). Co-authors include Jonathan Nicolla,…
Laureen Lopez-Berry, DNP student, has written a blog post titled "Now is Not the Time for ‘Social’ Distancing," which has been published on the Emergency Medicine News website. Lopez-Berry is a nurse practitioner based out of California.
The Duke School of Nursing welcomes two new staff members this week: Monica Russell, program director for the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and Stephanie Turner, public relations specialist in Marketing and Communications.
Russell comes from the Duke University Doctor of Physical…
Blanca Iris Padilla, assistant professor, and Kathryn Kreider, associate professor, have written the article "Communities of Practice: An Innovative Approach to Building Academic-Practice Partnerships," which has been published in the April 2020 issue of The Journal for Nurse…
Angela Richard-Eaglin, assistant professor, was invited as the closing speaker for the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA) Nurse Practitioner Spring Symposium, originally scheduled for April 1, 2020, in Pinehurst, North Carolina, but was moved to a virtual platform. Her virtual presentation…
Congratulations to Dori Steinberg, associate professor, and her entire team for her NHLBI Admin supplement award entitled “Optimizing Inclusion of Blacks Within a Dietary Change Intervention to Reduce Hypertension." This proposal requests funding for a three-year period with a start date of April…
Brigit Carter, associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion, published an article entitled "Responding to Microaggressions" in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter.
Shelley Thompson, DNP'19, and Midge Bowers, associate professor, published an article entitled "Impact of a Palliative Care Education Module in Patients With Heart Failure" in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Co-authors include Drs. Cary Ward and Anthony Galanos with Duke…
Duke University has opened up applications for funding from the Duke Student Assistance Fund which has been established to assist undergraduate, graduate and professional students with unexpected and extraordinary expenses related to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students…
When Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) ABSN, DNP Nurse Anesthesia and PhD students left campus for spring break on March 6, no one knew of the major pivot that faculty and staff would do in the next few weeks to ensure that their students' education would stay on track and on target.…
Brigit Carter, associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion, recently published a blog post entitled "Diversity and Inclusion During a Time of Social Distancing" with Inclusion Allies Coalition Forum, a coalition of organizations and practitioners committed to diversity, equity and inclusion within…
Kudos to Xiao Hu, professor, and his entire team for the submission of their NIH R01 application entitled "Extremely Scaling up Training Data Size for Learning Accurate Ambulatory Atrial Fibrillation Detection." This proposal requests funding for a five-year period with a start date of September 1…
Congratulations! You are completing your degree from one of the top nursing programs in the country. Below are common questions we hear from graduating students and steps we recommend that you take now so that you are prepared for post-graduation.
Frequently Asked Questions…
AnnMarie Walton, assistant professor, authored/co-authored three Safe Handling Q&As by the ONS National Standards Group. The documents are entitled "Staff Training" co-authored with Kristine Lefebvre; "Wipe Sampling" co-authored with Philip Schwieterman; and "Toilet Flushing."
Assistant Professor AnnMarie Walton's two articles published in Oncology Nursing Forum were featured in a news release entitled "New Nursing Research Sheds Light on Chemotherapy Safety" by ONS Voice. The two articles of Walton are entitled "Nursing Assistants' Use of Personal Protective Equipment…
Kudos to Sally Allgood, consulting associate, and her mentor Devon Noonan, associate professor, and her entire team for the submission of her Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation application entitled "Developing Community Healthworker Innovation Toolkit." This proposal requests funding…
I am so pleased to inform you that the following appointments, promotions and change of status were approved for the School of Nursing during the March 27, 2020 Board of Trustees meeting.
Promotions
Mary Louise Affronti, associate professor in the School of Nursing to professor…
DNP student Rebecca Lynch recently published an op-ed entitled "For Duty, Not Glory" in the Union Leader, a New Hampshire news outlet.
Schenita Randolph, assistant professor, published a chapter entitled "Chapter Eight - Project PLACE: Enhancing community and acadmic partnerships to describe and address health disparities" in Advances in Cancer Research. Co-authors include Nadine Barrett, Kearston Ingraham, and Laura Fish, Duke…
Emily Funk, DNP, CRNA, joined Duke University School of Nursing on April 1, 2020 in our Nurse Anesthesia Program and is a member of our Clinical Health Systems & Analytics Division.
Dr. Funk graduated magna cum laude from The Ohio State University with her BSN and earned her MSN in Nurse…
As COVID-19 continues to grow in our communities, hospitals are facing a severe shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). Nurses are on the front lines of caring for patients and cannot provide their best care without PPE. Facing this severe shortage, many Duke health care…
Kudos to Tara Albrecht, assistant professor, and her entire team for the submission of her American Cancer Society application entitled "Effects of Exercise on Physical Function and Symptoms in Acute Leukemia." This proposal requests funding for a four-year period with a start date of October 1.…
Consulting Associate Jan Tedder of HUG Your Baby was recently awarded the American Nurses Association Innovation Award 2020 for her contributions to HUG Your Baby and the quality and range of research published and in progress. HUG Your Baby is an inclusive and evidence-based educational program…
Registration for graduate and professional students began April 1. Here's some things to know:
Be sure to check your DukeHub account for registration holds prior to your registration window. If you have a hold in place when your window arrives, you will not be allowed to register at that time…