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…
PhD student Yesol Yang; Sharron Rushton, assistant professor; Hyeyong Park, PhD alumni; Heeyeon Son, PhD student, Eleanor McConnell, associate professor; and Cristina Hendrix, associate professor; publish an article entitled "Understanding the Associations between Caregiver Characteristics and…
Karin Reuter-Rice, associate professor, recently presented a webinar entitled "Concussion/mTBI in NC Children & Youth" for the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina. The presentation reviewed concussion in children, with a focus on children in North Carolina as well as included identifying…
Kudos to Xiao Hu, professor, and his entire team for the submission of their subcontract application to Neural Analytics, Inc. on a DOD award entitled "A Prospective Non-Invasive Study of Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity Morphology for Quantification of Intracranial Pressure." This proposal requests…
Four teams of researchers and their collaborators have been awarded new funding for pilot projects beginning this spring. Awardees include Associate Professors Debra Brandon, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN; Hyeoneui Kim, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN; Wei Pan, PhD; and Medical Instructor Hanzhang Xu, PhD.
The Center…
Laureen Lopez-Berry, DNP student, recently published an op-ed entitled "Be guided by facts, not emotion, about coronavirus during this time" in the VC Star in California. Lopez-Berry is a nurse practitioner. View the full article here.
Duke University Hospital has joined the first national study to test a potential therapy for COVID-19, giving hospitalized adult patients with significant symptoms an option to participate.
The investigational treatment, known as remdesivir, is an antiviral agent that was previously tested in…
People and Environment and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion would like to encourage faculty and staff to engage in activities designed to help support our community while we are physically away from DUSON.
Our DUSON Community Fitness Expert Christian Kennicott has provided several different…
Duke University has curated a collection of Duke images to "duke-ify" your Zoom background. You can download the images from Webdam using your Duke NetID and password.
Pictured to the right is a guide with instructions on how to log on and download the images.
View instructions for adding images…
Classes via Zoom - this is new territory for most DUSON faculty, staff and students. Last week, our message featured best practices for Zoom meetings - view our SON-IT Top 10 Zoom Tips. This week by special request we're taking a look at Zoom specifically for the classroom. Here's what you need to…
Michael Cary, associate professor, was recently featured in a Duke Today article entitled "A Community That Writes Together" which discusses how black faculty create an effective structure to boost productivity and support each other's scholarship. View full article here.
Kathy Trotter, associate professor, published an article entitled "A Tale of Two Sisters: Breast Reconstruction Options for Women With or at High Risk of Breast Cancer" in the Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology. Co-authors include Jennifer PlichtaMD, MS, FACS, Duke University Medical…