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…
Andrea Van Beek, MSN'16 and DNP'19, had to rethink patient care in the past two weeks with the COVID-19 quarantine. Van Beek works in an Anticoagulation Clinic and the recent pandemic had her patients hesitant to come to the lab and clinic. Several of her patients called worried and tried to delay…
Carolina "Callie" Tennyson, clinical instructor who will be joining DUSON Faculty this summer, recently presented an electronic poster entitled "The Shock Team: A Powerful Interdisciplinary Approach For Timely Management Of A Patient With Cardiogenic Shock" at the American College of Cardiology…
We're on our third week of working off-site. Based on the support requests our Information Technology team has received, we're getting closer to everyone having the tech they need at home. Zoom is now our most-used application. Now that you're all settled in, make sure your home environment is…
In wake of the recent changes in response to COVID-19, the Duke-UNC Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Program, a comprehensive training for healthcare professionals and the public health sector, will be a blended format of pre-recorded video modules and live, interactive training via Zoom on…
For those members of our community that are interested in donating personal protective equipment (PPE) donations to Duke University Health System, a coordinated effort has been established through Duke Procurement. Please be aware that at this time, the health system is not accepting hand-sewn…