For three years, the Health Innovation Lab (HIL) at Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) has been a place to try out and improve health technology ideas and innovations, just as its creator, Ryan Shaw, PhD, RN, envisioned. Shaw’s vision got an upgrade in February, when the lab moved out of his…
Over 230 of our community members responded to the Dean's sustainability name survey, and we have a winner! DUSON EcoStrong won with over 50 percent of the vote! Congratulations to our winner, Erika Burgos, who entered the DUSON EcoStrong name in the contest. She will receive an…
Iris Padilla, assistant professor, was part of a panel discussion focusing on immigrant health for the School of Medicine Cultural Determinants and Health Disparities course. It is a new course for first year MD and PT students. The panel discussion focused on some of the health care issues that…
Join Duke-Unicef Innovation Accelerator Social Innovation Symposium on April 3 at 1 p.m. in the Blue Devil Tower, followed by a cocktail reception. This dynamic symposium will spotlight the newly minted Duke-Unicef Innovation Accelerator entrepreneurs in conversations with other experts and…
Sophia Smith, associate professor, recently presented on "Coming full circle: A purposeful quest" at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Psychiatry Grand Rounds in New York City. Her "full circle" presentation touched on her being treated at Sloan Kettering for Hodgkin Lymphoma as a…
Carla Fallas, DNP'19; Katherine Pereira, professor; and assistant professors Iris Padilla and Irene Felsman published an article entitled "Improving Self-Care Management in Low-Income Latinos With Type 2 Diabetes Using Peer-Led U.S. Conversation Maps: A Quality Improvement Project in a Free Clinic…
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Karin Reuter-Rice, associate professor, recently presented research study findings with MSN student Sarah "Misrahi" Parker, and UAB PhD student Jeremy Jordan at the North American Brain Injury Society ABI 2020 conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Parker and Reuter-Rice presented their work…
Benjamin Smallheer, assistant professor, published an article entitled "A historical look at men's involvement in nursing and leadership in GAPNA" in the Geriatric Nursing. Co-authors include Brett Morgan, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists; and Robert Stern, Duke University Medical Center…
Congratulations to PhD student Jiepin Cao and her advisors on the award of her Sigma Theta Tau Global Nursing Excellence small grant entitled "Understanding Intimate Partner Violence Among Chinese: From the lens of social determinants of health and intersectionality." This is a one-year period with…
Marilyn Oermann, professor, published an article entitled "Clinical Education in Nursing: Current Practices and Trends" in the Clinical Education for the Health Professions. Co-author includes Teresa Shellenbarger with Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Abstract
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Marilyn Oermann, professor, recently spoke on "Broadening Your Assessment Strategies: For Class and Clinical Teaching" at the Lippincott Nursing Education Innovation Summit in Phoenix, Arizona.
Duke REACH Equity Center announces funding opportunities such as research voucher, scholars development, and transdisciplinary think tank. Applications are open through March 30 for July 2020 funding.
These awards support investigators at every career stage who are…
Kudos to Devon Noonan, associate professor, and her entire team for the submission of her Betty Moore Foundation grant proposal entitled "Developing and Evaluating Multisector Care Models for Chronic Disease Prevention in Rural Communities." This proposal requests funding for a three-year period…
Kristin Wainwright, PhD student, was selected for the 2020 Emerging Leaders Institute, an in-depth professional development program for Graduate School students and postdocs, designed to prepare you to perform as competent, confident, and effective leaders at Duke and beyond. The program is offered…
Alison Edie, assistant professor, presented on early childhood programs entitled "Collaboration to Promote Early Childhood Well Being in Families Experiencing Homelessness: A pilot of an interagency model" at the 2020 Nurturing Developing Minds Conference at the University of South Carolina School…
Eleanor L. Stevenson, professor, gave an invited talk entitled "Male Factor Infertility: Meeting men's unmet emotional and informational needs" at the Cryo's Symposium in Orlando, Florida.
Kudos to Schenita Randolph, assistant professor, and her entire team for the submission of the Betty Moore Foundation grant proposal entitled "The TALK: A Novel Mobile Application marketed in Barbershops and Beauty Salons for Black Fathers and Mothers to promote sexual health among Black male…
Jane Blood-Siegfried, professor, and Rebecca Fishman, senior program manager, with the Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives recently visited several DUSON partners in Rwanda and Tanzania to develop and/or continue to enhance clinical placement sites for our ABSN and graduate students…
It's a new semester and another opportunity to learn more about our staff who help to make DUSON the destination for outstanding talent. In this issue, we're getting to know Glenn Setliff, Director of Information Technology, who has been with DUSON for 10 years and 30…
Hester Klopper, PhD, MBA, HonsD, FANSA, FAAN, ASSAF, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Strategy and Internationalisation at Stellenbosch University in South Africa will serve as the keynote speaker for the 12th Annual Dorothy L. Powell Global Health Lecture on Thursday, March 26 at 4:30 p.m. in Pearson,…
The Duke Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) of the Duke Clinical Science Translational Science Institute (CTSI), clergy from the St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and researchers from North Carolina Central University partnered to raise awareness on diabetes and the…
Traditionally, nursing students go to school with fellow nursing students, learning from nursing faculty in the classroom and experienced nurses in the hospital and clinic. The same pattern goes for students in other health care fields, such as medicine and physical therapy. This is how…
Kathy Trotter, associate professor, and colleagues recently received the Duke Presidential Award at a ceremony on February 25 in Page Auditorium. According to a write up with Duke Today, the nine women of the Breast Surgical Oncology Team are compassionate guides for patients undergoing care for…
I am pleased to announce Kara McGee, DMS, MSPH, PA-C, AAHIVS will join DUSON’s full time regular rank faculty on May 1, 2020. She will be a member of the Healthcare in Adult Populations Division and will assume an integral role in the MSN program’s HIV Specialty. Some…