SUMMER 2020 VOLUME 16 NO. 2
DukeNursing Advancing Nursing Education, Research and Clinical Practice
4 Innovating in the Face of COVID-19
8 DUSON Community on the Front Lines of COVID-19
20 One Heckuva Teachable Moment
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We would like to thank ABSN students Kara Griffin and Shannon Haymond for participating in this edition of Duke Nursing Magazine.
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SUMMER 2020 VOLUME 16 NO. 2 DUKE NURSING DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS STAFF
Anita Stallings Associate Dean, Development and Alumni Affairs Diana Staples Senior Director, Development Marla Gregg Director, Alumni and Development Programs Sarah Blumig Director, Annual Giving and the Bessie Baker Society Kara Cockerell Development Associate Monica Roberson Staff Assistant EDITORIAL STAFF
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Thriving in a Disruptive Environment 4 Innovating in the Face of COVID-19 8 DUSON Community on the Front Lines of COVID-19 20 One Heckuva Teachable Moment
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NURSING BOARD OF VISITORS JULY 2020 – JUNE 2021
Bimal R. Shah, MD‘01, MBA’01 Chair Guy Cole Arnall, Jr., T’85 Daniel T. Blue III, T’95, L’01, B’01 Michele Chulick, BSN’77
Ruth C. Scharf, N’80 Orit Szulik James E. Vanek Jr., T’01 Brett. T. Williams, T’81
Lynn K. Erdman
EMERITUS MEMBERS
L. Sue Frederick, N’77, MD’83
Christy W. Bell
Joanne L. Mazurki, T’74
Charles C. McIlvaine, T’87
Bettye M. Musham, N’54
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24 New Faculty Appointments
Marianne Tango Williams, BSN’81 President
Sally Ann Addison, BSN’60
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Elizabeth A. Lee, BSN’82 Vice President
Connie B. Bishop, BSN’75, DNP’12
M. Christine Fulgencio, MSN’99 Secretary
Nancy S. Coll, N’68
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Susan M. Glover, BSN’70
Promotions & Transitions
30 Recent Grant Awards 30 Accomplishments & Honors 38 2020 Alumni Awards
Susan Beck Davis, BSN’77
44 Class Notes
Sandra A. Davis, BSN’82
52 Obituaries
Kathleen V. Gallagher, BSN’75
Andrew R. Benson, MSN’09 Ellen G. Donaldson, BSN’81 Christine Long, BSN’70
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Heather Paradis, MSN’ 95 Luisa Soler-Greene, DNP’14, MSN’13 Joan M. Stanley, BSN’71 Mary Ellen Wright, BSN’81 K. Becky Zagor, BSN ‘80
Sandra S. Averitt, BSN’67 Laurel J. Chadwick, BSNED’53 Nancy J. Davenport, BSN’67, MSN’69 Constance C. Kendall, BSN’84 Carole A. Klove, BSN’80 Virginia B. Lang, BSN’67 Marilyn C. McIlvaine, BSN’58 Barbara Nims, BSN’71 Christine S. Pearson, BSN’84 Susan J. Rainey, BSN’70 Martha C. Romney, BSN’77 Ruth C. Scharf, BSN’80 E. Dorsey Smith-Seed, BSN’60 Judith K. Snyderman, RN Martha S. Urbaniak, BSN’67 Barbara D. Yowell, BSN’62
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hat an extraordinary past few months we have shared — as individuals, as nurses and as leaders! I know that I have never been more proud to be a nurse, seeing the countless examples of compassion, courage and self-sacrifice from nurses around the world while at the same time we are struggling to overcome the injustice of racism at every level of our society. Leaders in all organizations have had to be front and center for their “people” — communicating with and supporting their colleagues and coworkers, addressing barriers to good ideas and practices that addressed the problems this spring has presented. And all the while staying resilient in the face of the unknown and our ambiguous future.
In this edition of Duke Nursing magazine, we will take a moment to look at just some of the hundreds of remarkable stories that have emerged over the past several months. I invite you to read about how, due to COVID-19, our advanced ABSN students were hired by Duke University Hospital to help ease staffing burdens, how our Health Innovation Lab fast-tracked PPE testing and development and how we turned a canceled global experience into a meaningful outreach campaign for the Latinx population here in the U.S. We will also look at how we pivoted from didactic education for our ABSN, DNP-Nurse Anesthesia and PhD in Nursing students to online education in a matter of just two weeks. Finally, we celebrate a few of the hundreds of Duke-educated nurses who are working on the front lines of this pandemic across the country. I also want to share with you some images from our Solidarity Walk against Racism where I was proud to add my voice to those of Duke University President Price and Chancellor Washington.
Sincerely,
Marion E. Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean and Ruby Wilson Professor of Nursing, Duke University School of Nursing Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs, Duke University Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs for Nursing, Duke University Health System
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Stay safe, and stay strong! I hope we will see each other soon.
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I hope these articles will spark positive conversations within your community as we inspire each other to continue making a difference in these difficult times.
Behind the Scrubs Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, members of the DUSON alumni community reached out with words of encouragement to our students, faculty and staff. Their insights, reflections and positive wishes helped each of us feel supported. Our sincere appreciation to these nurses who have helped to build the DUSON legacy of excellence.
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1. “We are rigorously trained to excel in clinical knowledge, teamwork and patient care. Now, we’re pitted against COVID-19, a worldwide viral pandemic. More than ever, now is the time to focus on beating this disease while cultivating hearts of compassion for our patients, our colleagues and ourselves.” – Laura Wood, MSN’06 2. “Dear DUSON students, I recognize that many of you are currently on the front lines during this incredible crisis. I applaud you for all you are doing and wish you safety and good health. God bless and keep you.” – Sandra Averitt, BSN’77
3. “How very blessed I have always felt to have been guided into a profession that allows me to be empathetic, technically trained, encouraged to use my educated judgment in service to others. And here we are in a pandemic that needs our service. We can multitask better than many professionals, and I hope that the examples set by our professional nurses and others in the medical field are seen for their personal commitment and humanity. I wish you the best.” – Barbara Dimmick Yowell, BSN’62 4. At my 40th reunion, I received a t-shirt that said, ‘Keep Calm I’m a Duke Nurse.’ It does keep me calm to know that Duke nurses are out there working hard in difficult circumstances. I have such confidence in you and think of you with pride and gratitude.” – Kathryn West, BSN’77 5. “I came through part of my education and training when HIV was just emerging. Almost nothing was known. Nurses were the ones tasked with caring for these very sick people. And once again nurses are in the forefront of caring for very sick people — both those with COVID and those without. So, persevere. Do good things. In difficult times, people count on nurses.” – Nancy Davenport, BSN’67, MD
6. “Thank you for your persistence and endurance as we see the whirlwind surrounding our community, nation and planet. This quote from Maya Angelou inspires me still: ‘Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.’ As nurses — clinicians, researchers and educators — we cultivate our patience and passion to sustain us over time.” – Patti Rieser, BSN’77, FNP 7. “DUSON students, I encourage you to be your best during this challenging time. To quote Michelle Obama, ‘Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you.’ We are keeping you close in thought and prayer!” – Mary Vinson, DNP’10 8. “Under the umbrella of beauty and dappled sunlight, may our Creator give you protection and perseverance as you learn and give care within the Duke community.” – Judith Richards, BSN’64 9. “Thank you for your strength and resilience during this challenging time. You make me proud to be a DUSON alumna!” – Ruth Calvin Scharf, BSN’80 10. “Words can’t describe the source of pride in saying ‘Keep calm I’m a Duke Nurse.’ More pride in saying YOU’RE a Duke Nurse. Wherever you practice please know there are lots of alumni who appreciate your efforts and have you in our thoughts.” – Connie Bishop, BSN’75, DNP’12
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nurse leaders in practice to provide the current ABSN and Nurse here was never any doubt in my mind that Anesthesia students with employment opportunities that would we could slow down or halt the education of offer valuable assistance and relief to those in the field. That the next generation of nurses,” said Valerie effort continues for the summer semester. Howard, EdD, RN, FAAN professor and “We have nurses on the front lines who need us to continue associate dean for academic affairs. to supply the workforce and pipeline with fresh minds, and we “That wasn’t even a thought then, and it’s can’t let them down,” Howard said. It was also critical for not a thought now.” DUSON to find ways to help its students obtain licensure, so they In the early days of March, when signs started to indicate could hit the ground running. “We have our high academic campuses would be closing for the foreseeable future, Howard standards, but we also have regulatory standards and called a strategy meeting. “At that point we were brainstormcertification standards,” Howard said, emphasizing the multiing,” she said. “What could we do? What resources do we have available?” When DUSON leaders received formal notice from the faceted challenges that the school faced. “We never sacrificed University in mid-March that the students would not be returning quality as we met the standards. We kept our academic rigor — the high quality-experiences that our students expect and that from spring break, the School already had a foundational plan we expect of one another.” in place. Because DUSON has robust distance-learning advanced “We’re a pretty strategic organization and very studentcentered,” said Dean Marion E. Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN. “The degree programs already in place, many experienced faculty and culture [of nursing] is one of innovation, and nurses do what they staff were able to use existing resources to help their lessexperienced colleagues and students in non-distance programs need to do to get the job done, bottom line.” The mobilization of faculty, staff and students began immediately. With the As the pandemic changes the paradigm of health care and help of teams throughout the School, health care education possibly forever, the goal at DUSON including its valuable IT staff, DUSON remains the same: preparing the students for their nursing was able to pivot quickly to help reach leadership careers. the immediate goal of supporting the May graduates to cross the academic transition to online learning. However, even in distance-learning finish line. Faculty and staff in DUSON’s MSN and DNP Programs programs, students are normally required to visit the campus at who are accustomed to online and distance-based education, some point to practice and develop hands-on and team-based connected with those faculty members of other programs who skills. While DUSON students were able to complete their weren’t as familiar with the teaching format. Virtual simulations requirements virtually during the shutdown, converting to a were created for students in order to meet accreditation guidelines by using the Zoom platform and virtual breakout Associate Dean for rooms. Much of this success lies with the expert simulation Academic Affairs Valerie educators in the Center for Nursing Discovery simulation lab. Howard led the effort to Communication across the various stakeholder groups was adapt didactic education to distance-based in a matter prioritized, Howard said, to make sure everyone had a sense of of a few short weeks. connection, understanding and confidence that DUSON leaders were working around the clock to concurrently manage daily challenges while optimistically plan for the future. One of the primary reasons for the successful May graduation was the symbiotic relationship between academics and clinical practice at DUSON, Broome said. “We have a very strong practice partnership that could not have been more important during a time like this.” Broome and Howard worked together with DUSON program directors, clinics and health care facilities to help graduating students receive their final clinical hours. They also provided workforce support by collaborating with
is especially difficult for the nurses and other caregivers. That’s one reason why as we move forward, nursing education must continue to emphasize self-care, Howard said. “I think for our students, we’re trying to strengthen their resiliency to care for themselves and for one another because it can’t be done in a vacuum. We must learn to reach out for help when we need it. We have to support one another.” As the pandemic changes the paradigm of health care and health care education, possibly forever, the goal at DUSON remains the same: preparing the students for their nursing leadership careers. “We must educate the next generation of clinicians, the next generation of clinical leaders and educators, the next generation of nurse scientists,” Howard said. “That’s not going to change. We must be strategic and thoughtful for how we accomplish our mission.” But how that happens will depend on many things. One area of concern is financing, Broome said. Not only has the university been impacted by the economic effects of the pandemic, the individual students have as well. “We are looking very carefully at how we use our resources to support our students, faculty and staff,” she said. If anything positive comes of the COVID pandemic, it’s that nurses are being recognized for their professional dedication, knowledge and patient care and for how critical those qualities are to the success of a patient’s outcome. “Those days when it was difficult for me personally, I thought about those nurses who are going out every day, sometimes 20, 30, 40 days in a row, caring for patients,” Howard said. “Hearing their heroic stories inspired me and I knew that we could not stop preparing the nurses of the future.” n
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solely remote learning format is not a viable long-term option. “As we look at the short-term, we must prepare for a safe re-entry to campus for our students, faculty and staff. We can’t prepare nurses 100 percent in a completely virtual environment,” Howard said. “At some point, they need practice in simulation and they have to be out there working with patients.” Sustaining how to do that for our students over the next several months is a top priority for the school. The temporary campus shutdown has highlighted how important “being present” is to nursing, Broome said. “We take that very seriously in our education,” she said, noting that without the human interaction among the faculty, staff and students, the actual school infrastructure can feel impersonal during the shutdown. “What brings a Duke nursing education to life are the people and the students, the faculty and the staff. To me, that’s the heart of what’s so different during this crisis.” While much of the public and media are focused on the infectious issues surrounding COVID-19, Broome said that it’s not the most challenging aspect for nurses and other health care workers to handle because they are educated to deal with that technical part of patient care. It’s seeing the isolation, and what that means for patients and their families, that creates different challenges for nurses in the field. “How do you take care of the emotional needs of the patients?” Broome said. “Especially when a patient is dying and cannot have their family there.” Trying to navigate the boundaries of infectious disease control in a family-focused model is uniquely challenging for nurses. “What’s brought us all to tears is watching nurses having to do this over and over again,” she said. Caring for patients who are isolated from their loved ones
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DNP-Nurse Anesthesia students were the first to return to DUSON in June while practicing social-distancing. Protocols developed over the summer will influence processes for the Fall semester.
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DUSON Community on the Front Lines of COVID-19 by Aliza Inbari
NURSES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ARE RESPONDING HEROICALLY TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ARE LEADING THE WAY IN THE NATION’S RESPONSE TO THIS GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS. We are grateful for their selfless dedication to their patients and their tireless hard work. We are honored to share the stories of three Duke University School of Nursing alumni who are on the front lines of the fight against the virus — Andrew Benson, DNP, MSN’09, Nicki Conway, ABSN’19, and David Marsico, ABSN’18.
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Andrew Benson, DNP, MSN’09, leads a team of about 100 certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) in the Medical Progressive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Under normal conditions, his team works in the operating rooms, taking care of different kinds of patients. When COVID-19 hit, Benson mobilized his team to help respiratory therapists in managing ventilators for patients affected by the virus, as well as using their advanced critical care skills to help care for patients in the intensive care unit. “It’s a horrible virus,” said Benson. “We are wearing all the necessary personal protective equipment, and we are very careful about maintaining excellent hand hygiene. In fact, I feel safer on the COVID19-positive floor than going to the grocery store.” Benson works long days as a respiratory therapist on a COVID-19positive unit. While he feels safe at work, he also feels stressed. “I have to make sure that I’m very careful about not being exposed to the virus and that adds an extra layer of stress to the normal stress that we work in,” he said.
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CHIEF CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETIST AT JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Left: Benson pictured with members of his CRNA team.
Despite the pressure and the tough circumstances, the common goal of fighting this pandemic brings medical teams together. “Respiratory therapists, physicians, advanced practice providers and nurses are working together,” he said. “There is a lot of bonding and friendships, and we meet people that we wouldn’t work with normally at the hospital.” In 2007, Benson attended the Nurse Anesthesia Program at Duke University School of Nursing, which was at the time a master of science in nursing degree program. He is grateful for the Linda Odom Scholarship and Anna Hoyns Scholarship he received from the school and for his Duke education. “It’s one of the nation’s best programs,” he said. ”Duke has prepared me and many CRNAs to be at the top of our practice and be ready for work like this.” Benson is proud of the role of CRNAs nationwide in fighting this pandemic. “CRNAs are playing a very important part in taking care of COVID-19-positive patients at this time of global crisis,” he said.
in Jacksonville, Florida. A few weeks later, COVID-19 hit. Conway was assigned to the emergency department’s COVID-19 negative-pressure equipped quarantine unit to care for COVID-positive patients. “It’s pretty nerve-wracking to start a nursing career on normal days, and now we have the added complication of trying to fight a pandemic,” said Conway. “I had not been working very long in the emergency department before we started changing and implementing new procedures. It’s been surreal.” Keeping herself safe at work adds another layer of stress to Conway’s day. “The EMS brings in a lot of people, and that is stressful,” she said. “I have to get completely suited up and make sure that I have an N95 mask and face shield on when caring for any patient in the emergency department. I have to really be on my toes and think about safety because we don’t necessarily know what’s coming in.” Conway values her Duke education and finds it helpful in her current role. ”I learned from the best, both in
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Nicki Conway EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT NURSE AT THE BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
In her first semester, Nicki Conway, ABSN’19, learned about personal protective equipment (PPE) and practiced how to use it. But what she did not imagine is how immediately she would need to use this knowledge in her career. In late February, only two months after she graduated, Conway received her first job in nursing — as an emergency department nurse at Baptist Medical Center
the classroom and during my clinical rotations at Duke University Hospital and Duke Regional Hospital,” she said. “One of the comforts in this pandemic is knowing that I was well-trained and know what to do.” She is grateful for the Karla Mae Jacobus Memorial Scholarship that allowed her to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse. “I’m a single mom of a child with Autism, and the scholarship was very helpful to me in achieving my goal.”
DUSON on the Front Lines Conway has not seen her son, Elliot, for more than two months. In mid-March, during her son’s spring break, Conway took him to South Carolina so that he could spend his vacation with his grandmother. Elliot’s vacation with his grandmother unexpectedly turned into an extended stay when schools closed due to the COVID19 pandemic. “To make sure that he remained safe, my mother and I agreed that Elliot would be safest staying with her. We were both worried that I might bring the virus home to him.” Conway hopes that the rest of her career in nursing will be much calmer than her beginning. “It will be interesting to see how things feel when the pandemic ends,” she said. “I wonder if I’ll feel that I can breathe a little easier, or having to wear added PPE with all emergency department patients simply becomes the new norm.”
David Marsico
Tenly Barr, ABSN’18, pictured with Marsico, traveled from her home state of Colorado to NYC work in the ICU.
To protect his family from exposure to the virus, Marsico has not seen them since the beginning of the pandemic. He misses his baby niece. “I’m a very involved uncle,“ he said. “That’s my favorite thing in the world.” Marsico values the education he received at the School of Nursing. “At Duke, I understood that clinical practice is the most important part of nursing, and that is invaluable,“ he said. “It prepared me to be the nurse that I am.” Marsico was the recipient of the Nan and Hugh Cullman Scholarship, which supports global immersion trips for nursing students. “Participating in a global clinical experience gave me a better understanding of community needs, taught me how to address health care challenges and deepened my appreciation for working with diverse populations.” Despite the tough work on the front lines of COVID19, Marsico remains strong and hopeful. “Beyond a reasonable doubt, I am working in the role I was meant to do,” he said. “When I’m walking into these rooms and donning that mountain of gear, I’m treating these patients the same way I treated any other patient before the pandemic—as a human being. As nurses we are not just there to treat solely the disease but to treat the person, too.” n
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The night before David Marsico, ABSN’18, received the first COVID-19 patient at New York University Langone Medical Center in Manhattan in early March, his father begged him to quit nursing. “My father doesn’t get that this is what I signed up for,” said Marsico, who works in the COVID-19 intensive care and acute care units at the hospital. He told his father that he will be fine and that a lot of patients tested for coronavirus were found to be negative. But that was not the case a day later. Marsico, who celebrated his first work anniversary at the hospital just days before the pandemic hit, was anxious like everyone on the unit when the first COVID19 patient arrived. “It was scary,“ he said. “I resigned myself to the fact that there is a very real possibility that I might get sick and die.” Due to a shortage of nurses in New York City, Marsico worked seven days a week in the first month of the pandemic, caring for severely ill COVID-19 patients. He eventually contracted the virus himself and got sick in late April. Fortunately, his illness was mild, and he came back to work after two weeks. “I was very anxious at first when I caught the virus, but after the first three days I felt better,” he said.
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INTENSIVE CARE UNIT NURSE AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY
More Reflections from the Front Lines THROUGHOUT THE COVID-19 CRISIS, MEMBERS OF THE DUSON COMMUNITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE STEPPED UP TO SERVE ON THE FRONT LINES OF THIS DEADLY PANDEMIC. Some left their families for weeks to travel where they were needed most. Some used their talents, education and passion to take care of the communities in which they live. No matter their individual situation, each and every professional continually personifies DUSON’s name and values while exhibiting an overwhelming commitment to serving others. We asked some of our current and former students to share their reflections on what it means to be a nurse working through COVID-19 and how their DUSON education has helped to prepare them for this service. Here are a few of their thoughts. We thank them and all their fellow Duke Nurses around the world for their service.
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When I heard there was a critical need in NYC, I immediately knew that I would go to help. I am a practicing CRNA but told the agency that I would work wherever they needed me. I was thrilled to put my bedside skills back to work in the COVID ICU. The first two weeks were truly something unexplainable, and words fail to describe them. Patients were requiring full ventilatory support using advanced techniques and often with additional nitrous oxide. Most patients were on 7-9 vasoactive infusions, receiving blood/plasma transfusions and being prone for 16 hours out of the day. The emotional challenges are plentiful, and the pendulum swings often and wide. This six-week experience has been humbling yet confidence-building, exhausting yet exhilarating, tragic yet joyful, confusing yet enlightening, and the scene can change in the blink of an eye. The exhaustion is more than physical; the mental fatigue is a level in which I never knew was possible. Holding the hand of an actively dying patient, while the family is on FaceTime, will cause such heartache that it almost has a physical manifestation. I have learned that self-care is not a luxury. It is a necessity. However, given the opportunity, I would do this again and again.
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Willaford (left) and two colleagues from Florida volunteered for six weeks in Bellevue Hospital New York at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Robert R Bradford III ABSN ’17, RN, LT. J.G. UNITED STATES NAVY ICU STAFF NURSE AT NAVAL MEDICAL READINESS AND TRAINING COMMAND, PORTSMOUTH, VA
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I was honored to wear the uniform and join the USNS Comfort up to NYC to assist the health care system of NYC during the COVID-19 crisis. DUSON gave me the foundation I needed to be successful in nursing and be able to adapt to any situation, including treating an unfamiliar disease in an unconventional environment (ship ICU) with a collection of doctors, nurses, respiratory technicians and corpsmen that were thrown together in less than a week from all over the country. One of the reoccurring themes I remember being taught during my time at DUSON was critical thinking. Anyone can be taught how to give an IV, how to give a medication, how to put in a Foley catheter, but not anyone can be taught how to think critically. That, in my opinion, is what separates DUSON from most other nursing schools. That foundation of critically thinking while applying the nursing process is what helped me and the rest of the team deliver above the (normal) standard of care for my ICU patients that were infected with COVID-19 aboard the USNS Comfort.
Catharyn Nosek ABSN ’15, RN, LT. UNITED STATES NAVY ICU NURSE AT THE NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH, NORFOLK, VA
The COVID-19 pandemic is truly a pivotal, historical moment in our world. We as nurses are being called to action to help those in need, and we are honored to do so. As a registered nurse in the US Navy, I had the opportunity to deploy with the USNS Comfort to NYC to work as an ICU nurse and provide care to the city’s most critically ill, COVIDpositive patients. This was an eye-opening and challenging experience as we navigated providing care aboard a ship with limited resources and constant-evolving research regarding an unfamiliar disease. The Comfort was the busiest ICU in the Department of Defense in the month of April, and our physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and corpsmen worked around the clock to deliver the highest quality care. It was an exhausting, emotional and overwhelming experience for all as we worked weeks on end with no time off taking care of the sickest patients we’ve ever seen, with multiple comorbidities. We have an obligation to serve and protect the American people, and we were honored to help the citizens of NYC. I relied heavily on my education from Duke which provided me with the knowledge and confidence to face this invisible enemy head on and to save as many lives as we did. I credit my education from Duke for helping me develop the skill of critical thinking, which was necessary more than ever during this unprecedented time in medicine.
DUSON on the Front Lines Margaret (Midge) T. Bowers DNP, MSN’90, RN, FNP-BC, CHFN, CHSE, A.A.C.C., FAANP, FAAN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
I have never been more proud to be a nurse. Nurses have long been thought of as the most respected profession, but the pandemic has shown the resiliency and strength of nurses in a new light. I decided to go to nursing school because I wanted a tangible way to help others. The pandemic has highlighted that nurses of all educational levels are capable of stepping in and assisting in times of crisis. I think nursing will become an even more attractive profession. The pandemic has demonstrated that nurses are a critical part of the health care team who are willing to sacrifice to serve and promote the health and wellbeing of others. I think a new wave of interest will be seen in nursing schools by those who are looking for a life mission. Schools of nursing will need to adapt curriculum to teach students (of all levels) more about crisis management, including both practical aspects as well as focusing on maintaining their mental health during times such as these.
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Kathryn Evans Kreider
Effective communication skills have taken on a whole new meaning in nursing during C-19. Nurse-patient communication has evolved in a short time as nurses are consistently learning how to convey messages not just in words behind a mask but through eye expressions, tone of voice and nonverbal behavior. How we actually deliver care in virtual spaces is and will be more common in the future — more phone calls, tele-video visits, and varied hours of clinical site to provide access but reduce congestion in actual clinic spaces. Inpatient consultations and family visits are being enhanced using technology. Visitors who are unable to travel can actually connect with their loved one on an Ipad, and consultants have had an expanded reach to provide patient care on a more widespread basis. Nursing care relies on touch, and in an era where handshakes may be a thing of the past, we will need to make sure we remember the importance of touch to caring for patients even through gloved hands. These changes in how care is delivered must be addressed in the academic preparation of future nurses — at the bedside, in advanced practice and as nurse scientists. Here at DUSON, we have been proactive in introducing many of these concepts into our curriculum so that graduates are prepared to meet the challenges of health care delivery now and in the future.
Melissa Toper MSN ’15, RN, NPD-BC, CCRN-K, CLINICAL NURSE EDUCATOR DUHS CLINICAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
After graduating with my MSN in Nursing Education, I made the decision to step away from the bedside into a staff development role. In my five years in this role, I have learned to be flexible, and nothing proved this point quite like the COVID-19 pandemic. I remember attending a personal protective equipment (PPE) training one morning in early February, and the next day our department was tasked with training all DUHS staff on PPE donning/doffing procedures. During those first weeks, anxiety was running high as nobody knew what to expect. What scale surge would we see? Do our hospitals have enough PPE? In the beginning, the PPE training seemed to change daily based on available supplies and guidance from the Infection Prevention (IP) team. It was difficult to keep the front line staff current. Our
department worked closely with IP and the COVID-19 Leadership Task Force to reinforce health system decisions and to address front line staff concerns. Over the past several weeks, the CNEs have been rounding on the units with COVID-positive patients and persons under investigation (PUIs), checking in with staff to ensure that they have what they need to feel safe and supported. Now, as the CNEs round, we are able to provide real-time training and escalate questions and concerns appropriately.
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Michael Bury MSN, RN, CCRN, AND DNP STUDENT, U.S. NAVY, ICU NURSE IN COVID HOSPITAL UNIT, NEW YORK, NEW YORK
I am very grateful to have the opportunity to serve my country as well as the citizens of NYC during this crisis. This deployment for Navy Medicine is the first of its kind, and being a plank owner of this historical operation is very gratifying. Caring for this particular patient population has been a unique experience, and the training I received from my colleagues at the Duke University Hospital MICU during my nearly five years there has well prepared me to care for the patients. I hope North Carolina does not have to go through something similar to what New York has experienced, but I know Duke will stand ready as always to lead the fight.
DUSON on the Front Lines Malissa Lockamy MPM, BSRT, RRT-NPS, AND ABSN STUDENT RESPIRATORY THERAPIST, DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, DURHAM, NC
While I am only a second-semester nursing student, I feel like I am receiving a great foundation to begin a nursing career because of all the amazing nurses I have had exposure to throughout my 21- year career as a respiratory therapist. During the pandemic, I have worked alongside many nurses, and learned that teamwork is a necessity in order to provide total care to patients. COVID has definitely impacted all health care providers, but we are amazingly talented at adapting and overcoming obstacles. The teamwork between all disciplines has been wonderful. I am very proud to be a respiratory therapist during this pandemic and looking forward to what my future nursing career will be like.
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As a nursing leader in supply chain at two hospitals in south central Florida, I am charged with ensuring that staff has the personal protective equipment (PPE) that they need in order to be safe during the COVID-19 pandemic but also that we are protecting what supplies we do have to ensure we do not run out. In order to achieve both outcomes, I work as the largest change agent in the hospital in relation to PPE supplies. I have been successful as a PPE leader because of my education from Duke. My studies have focused on Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, and I have been sculpting myself into a transformational leader since I started Duke’s BSN to DNP program in 2017. Duke’s courses have strengthened my ability to drive logic over emotion and to think outside the box for unique solutions to difficult situations. My ability to be a strong leader has allowed the hospital team members I work with to trust and follow my direction through the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to PPE supplies. I would not have been prepared to step into a role where I am tasked with helping staff feel safe, in a time when many sources say otherwise, without having been prepared as a leader through Duke’s MSN and DNP programs.
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MSN’18, RN, AND DNP STUDENT HIGHLANDS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, SEBRING, FL
Joni Watson DNP’20, MBA, RN, OCN VICE PRESIDENT, PATIENT CARE SERVICES, ROWLETT, TEXAS
DUSON challenged me to think through and beyond what was in front of me. I was encouraged to question and draw from the evidence and from my network when I needed support. I was reminded several times through the curriculum to “find [my] PhD colleagues” and to build a PhD-DNP bridge to develop a circle of feedback of moving research into practice and practice informing research. I was able to do just that, knowing how to discuss policy changes with little to no evidence with our nurses — who are accustomed to discussing the evidence — in a framework that they could comfortably use. In addition, my nurses will soon participate in research assessing nurses’ moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in the DNP Executive Leadership program, I assessed and learned more about my influencing leadership style as well as how I naturally react during moments of change and how best to adjust my leadership to help others who may need additional support or to collaborate with others who may not feel entirely comfortable with the pace of change. Many of the case studies were done in cohort communication fashion, so I had the opportunity to learn from a dozen or more leaders with varied backgrounds about how they would tackle a problem in their geopolitical health care environments, which created new ideas and thinking patterns for me. I have no doubt my time at DUSON helped prepare me for this moment. I am proud to be a Duke alum!
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RN, MSN ‘19 GREENSBORO, NC
My experience with nursing during the C-19 pandemic had been different from many. My front line is not at the bedside; it has been as an advocate and voice of reason and science. I have realized my power as an advocate. I have been counter-protesting the ReopenNC movement and have helped establish a group of NC health care professionals called Health Workers Defend NC. Together we have organized silent protests that have gained national news coverage and attention from NC legislators. We have organized a multidisciplinary group of advocacy-minded health workers that can continue to fight for patients beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
DUSON on the Front Lines Erin Nolan
BSN, RN, IBCLC AND MSN STUDENT DIRECTOR OF CARE COORDINATION AT MARY’S CENTER IN THE GREATER WASHINGTON D.C. AREA
As a society, we have had to adjust to a world of social distancing, of mask wearing, of working while teaching our children at home. However, as nurses, we have also been charged with an inexorable shift in our roles professionally as well. In administration, specifically in directing a telehealth program, my experience has been quite different than many of my colleagues. At the onset of the public health crisis, I worked around the clock to adjust our telemedicine program from facilitated encounters where we were able to obtain vitals, point of care testing and lab draws to assist the provider telemedicine encounter to an entirely virtual format — expanding also to providers who had no experience developing rapport and conducting assessments over the phone or video. We had to find new ways to not only support our staff, but also to outreach to our patients so that we could continue to meet them and support their primary care in a time when primary care is being delayed and avoided by most. As a nurse, finding the right methods, language and touch points to connect with patients and support them on their path toward health improvement and prevention has become far more important than knowing the pathophysiology of any disease state.
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I feel empowered to be a nurse during this time and grateful that I have the ability to give back to my community. It is incredible to experience so much community support. My drive to work is filled with signs thanking health care workers and there is usually a complimentary dinner or treat donation when I arrive. Moreover, the community continues to donate PPE. During the beginning of the pandemic, I was definitely fearful of going to work and worried about not having appropriate PPE. Luckily within my community, the expected C-19 “surge” never came, and my hospital did not experience issues with high census or lack of PPE. There are actually so few pediatric patients needing ICU care I have been called off for multiple shifts. My background in nursing has also created an opportunity to serve as a resource for my family and friends, educating them on social distancing and infection control. Ultimately, I am proud of being a nurse. I feel grateful for my Duke education during this pandemic. It has helped me stay grounded, calm and prepared. There is a constant stream of information and even misinformation from mainstream media. It is so easy to become overwhelmed and panicked. My education at Duke has taught me how to find reliable sources of evidence-based information, how to critically appraise research and how to apply research to practice. Another perk of my Duke education is that it is timeconsuming, so I do not have a lot of time for fearful or negative thoughts.
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ABSN ’12, RN AND MSN STUDENT PEDIATRIC ICU NURSE AT JOHN MUIR HOSPITAL, DANVILLE, CA
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Pratt School of Engineering students join DUSON students to work in DUSON’s Health Innovation Lab to develop robotic technology that can assist front line health care workers.
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MOMENT Alston, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, assistant vice president, Nursing Recruitment and Hospital Administrative Systems, DUHS. “In an effort to help our current staff, who are already working overtime and volunteering in various locations in our health system to meet COVID-19 needs, we worked with our health system leadership to quickly hire additional resources.” Valerie Howard, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, associate dean for Academic Affairs, saw the new opportunity as a benefit for both clinical and academics. “All health professions learners, including nursing students, were suspended from clinical settings as a result of COVID-19, preventing them from completing the needed clinical hours to gain confidence and competence,” she said. “Hiring our ABSN students into temporary positions at DUHS provided an opportunity for students to gain confidence and skills in patient care in such
areas of infection control, communication and patient safety while under the training and supervision of a top-notch health care system. In addition, patients will benefit from the supplemental staffing and additional care they will receive from our nursing students.” For ABSN students Jieun Na and Megan Cardwell, it was an opportunity to jump in and help during a global pandemic. “My passion is toward disaster response,” Na said. “Being hired as a patient service aide allowed me to be an extra helping hand during a pandemic as well as provided me with an opportunity to observe how hospitals function during times of crisis.” Cardwell agrees that, in addition to gaining critical experience, it was also an opportunity for her to contribute. “Since the pandemic started, I have been eager to help in some way but wasn’t sure how I could become involved
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ABSN Students Hired as COVID Resources The Duke University Health System (DUHS) hired 45 eligible Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) students to work within Duke University Hospital to help address COVID-19 care needs and to help relieve the increased demands on the hospital’s staff. ABSN students who completed their first semester of clinical and/or had a nursing assistant background were eligible for employment as patient service aides in the health system’s float pool to assist with COVID-19 screening of hospital visitors, patients and employees, to observe personal protective equipment donning, and to provide basic patient care for non-COVID patients. “Our community, like so many across the country, has seen an influx in the need to care for patients affected by the coronavirus pandemic,” said Sylvia
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There are times when we are challenged to use the knowledge we have, the skills we have learned, and the experience we have gained in new and innovative ways. We often reflect on these situations as “teachable moments,” and the COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception. We share with you just three examples of how COVID-19 challenged members of the DUSON community to think, act and learn very differently in one heckuva teachable moment for us all.
ABSN Students Kaylin Marie, Anna Maria and Dorothy Brooke were hired as Patient Service Aides by Duke Hospital
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within the Durham community,” she said. “When DUSON shared this opportunity, I knew it would be a perfect way to help while also being able to work at a renowned hospital to gain exposure as a future registered nurse.” The opportunity to hire the students was made possible through a unique partnership between DUSON and DUHS called the Duke Advancement of Nursing, Center of Excellence (DANCE). DANCE provides the infrastructure to match the clinical expertise and needs of DUHS with the research expertise and theoretical insight of DUSON. Health Innovation Lab: Accelerating Innovation on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic February marked a milestone for the Health Innovation Lab (HIL) with its move to the Duke Health Interprofessional Education Building. When the Lab formally opened its doors in the new location, Ryan Shaw, PhD’12, RN, the Lab’s director and DUSON associate professor, saw the moment as the Lab’s next step as an accelerator for innovation for the greater Duke community. The 20,000-square-foot state-of-the art simulation lab, the first of its kind on campus, is intended to be a collaborative
shield designed by Duke’s Pratt School of space where the professions of nursing, Engineering. The Health System estimated medicine, physical therapy, engineering it needed an initial supply of more than and business can ideate, prototype and 9,000 face shields as part of their launch of test ideas. Just a few weeks into its new their COVID-19 response. Pratt engineers facilities, COVID-19 was in full-force. designed a prototype face shield that could Shaw and his colleagues knew that this be 3D printed and produced internally at was their moment as they discovered Duke. It did, however, need to be tested. that innovation and interdisciplinary DUSON’s PhD and Nurse Anesthesia collaboration would be crucial in meeting students, many of whom have been the pandemic’s challenges. practicing nurses in the Health System Shaw joined Duke’s COVID-19 Engineering Response Team that was created to review and test ideas to meet the needs of the Health System. The team was charged with taking ideas from concept to testing to production as fast as possible. The HIL proved to be the perfect space for this demand. “It is our civic duty to offer assistance to all of the health care professionals working on the front lines,” Shaw said. “The Lab is an accelerator for the ideas being generated by our colleagues across Benjamin Smallheer, assistant the University and Health professor (left) and Ryan Shaw, PhD’12, RN, associate professor System.” pose with telepresence robot One of the first ideas to be JaMMeR that is being pilot tested was a 3D printed face tested in Duke Raleigh Hospital.
Left: CRNA student, Alyssa tests a prototype face shield in the DUSON Health Innovation Lab.
Global Population Health Outreach Here in the United States For second-semester ABSN students, a large part of the Community and Public Health Nursing course (N397) is to apply
what they’ve learned in the classroom to two weeks of global immersion that provides them with more than 56 hours of direct clinical experience. When COVID-19 abruptly canceled all global travel at Duke, Assistant Professor Irene Felsman, DNP, MPH, RN, was charged with creating a global population health experience without traveling. She turned to one of DUSON’s community partners, Curamericas Global, for a possible solution. Curamericas Global is a nongovernmental organization that works in impoverished communities around the world to build partnerships to help address major health problems and reduce maternal and child mortality. Because of DUSON’s existing partnership, Felsman and her team of 33 students were able to help refine and launch a COVID-19 outreach information campaign to the Latinx community that was being developed by Curamericas and the Guatemalan Consulate in Raleigh. “Over a two-week period, our students were able to provide concentrated support
in refining and to begin implementation of a direct outreach effort that spanned four states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia),” Felsman said. “We divided the students into four teams that focused on volunteer training in COVID outreach, making phone calls to individuals, analyzing data, creating educational materials.” By the end of the two-week effort, 260 families across the Southeastern United States were contacted by DUSON students. “Our students were incredible in terms of how they were able to set aside their disappointment regarding the original trip cancellations and embrace the rapid pivot from a global experience to be fully engaged in a much needed outreach program,” Felsman said. “We were able to get information out as fast as possible regarding individual and population COVID-19 safety, food security, and how to access health and other resources and services in their area to a population who had a great need for accurate and timely information.” n
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and who are experienced in intensive care settings, volunteered to conduct the testing using various scenario simulations. The feedback from the participants allowed the Engineering team to continue with the development process and meet an immediate front line need. “The Lab was a perfect place for testing products,” Shaw said. “Our health care professionals were caught up in responding to the immediate needs of their patients and did not have time to step away to test these products. Pratt engineers were able to tap into the experience of our faculty and graduate nursing students for feedback.” The Lab was instrumental in testing and developing other concepts throughout the pandemic. Working with School of Medicine physicians, the Lab helped to test isolation bed tents to assist health care professionals on the COVID-19 front lines. The bed tent is still in the very early stages, but nursing students and faculty are already providing valuable feedback. The Lab is also working on telepresence health care projects as well as TRINA, the telerobotic intelligent nursing assistant, a remote-controlled robot that could be used to perform common nursing duties in hazardous clinical environments. Forward-thinking collaborative innovation is the ultimate goal of the lab, and during a crisis such as COVID-19, it’s the perfect place for teams — nurses, engineers, and physicians — to come together to test ideas and care models that will improve patient care as well as care for those working on the front lines across the street from the School of Nursing.
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Students whose international cultural immersion experience was canceled plan a COVID-19 Latinx population outreach campaign.
New Faculty Appointments (January –July 2020)
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Hu
Gadhoumi
Xiao
Xiao Hu, PhD, is the Ann Henshaw
Kais Gadhoumi, PhD, is an assistant
Ran Xiao, PhD, is an assistant professor
Gardiner Distinguished Professor of Nursing within our Clinical Health Systems and Analytics Division. A distinguished researcher in the field of biomedical signal processing and machine learning, Hu joined Duke from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) where he was a full professor of Physiological Nursing and Neurological Surgery. While at UCSF, he led a highly active research lab consisting of data scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and software engineers. He closely collaborated with stakeholders in nursing, critical care/neurocritical care medicine, neurosurgery, hospital medicine, cardiology, FDA, NASA and industry to develop intelligent systems driven by biomedical and clinical knowledge and by rich data from electronic health record and medical devices. Hu has been the principal investigator of four NIH R01 and three NIH R21 research projects and of several industrial grants, has published more than 110 journal papers and been awarded six US patents. He is a standing member of NIH/CSR Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics study section. Hu has mentored numerous postdoctoral fellows and served as an advisor for a number of PhD students. Dr. Hu also holds secondary appointments in the School of Medicine and School of Engineering.
professor within our Clinical Health Systems and Analytics Division. Prior to joining Duke, he was an assistant researcher and associate director in Xiao Hu’s research lab at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Prior to UCSF, he was the co-founder and head of Analytics at Stratuscent Inc., a Montreal-based start-up developing nextgeneration intelligent chemical sensors and sensing platforms. Gadhoumi has also worked in the telecommunication industry where he held different positions such as software and system designer, technical lead and software architect. He is a member of numerous scientific societies in the United States and Canada and has received many academic and professional awards. Gadhoumi earned a PhD in biomedical engineering from McGill University and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Sherbrooke. His research interests are focused in digital health and precision medicine, specifically the application of artificial intelligence and advanced signal processing in predictive health care analytics. He has authored/ coauthored a number of publications that have contributed to the literature in this research area.
within our Clinical Health Systems and Analytics Division. Prior to joining Duke, he was an assistant professional researcher at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering with a specialty in biomedical engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Xiao’s research focuses on biomedical signal processing and applying machine learning to biomedical informatics. His scholarly work includes several publications in important journals and poster and oral presentations at various processional conferences.
New Faculty Appointments
Malinda Teague, DNP’18, RN, CPNPAC/PC , is an assistant professor within
our Healthcare of Women, Children and Families Division and serves as the lead faculty for the Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner major in our MSN program. Prior to joining our faculty, she was a clinical instructor for both the ABSN and MSN programs and taught in the pediatric primary care management courses. She has worked in pediatric rheumatology, pediatric emergency medicine and urgent care, and pediatric primary care settings in both clinical and leadership roles. Teague was an assistant professor, coordinator of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program and director of Advanced Practice Programs at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute of Health Professions until 2016 when she moved to North Carolina. Teague received a bachelor’s in anthropology with a minor in chemistry from Vanderbilt University and her MSN from the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She earned her DNP from Duke University School of Nursing. She holds dual certification as a primary and an acute care pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP). Teague practices clinically as a PNP at Duke Primary Care Pediatrics in Holly Springs and also serves as the practice medical director for both Wake County pediatric practices, helping to develop the pediatric service line for Duke Primary Care. She also serves as the legislative chair for the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and was a 2019 NAPNAP (National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners) Advocacy Scholar awardee.
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Michelle Webb, DNP, RN, CHPCA,
John Brion, PhD, PMHNP-BC , joined
is an assistant professor in our Health Systems and Analytics Division and has teaching responsibilities in our Nursing and Health Care Leadership major within our MSN program. She comes to Duke from Teleios Collaborative Network, a network of nine hospice and palliative care provider organizations throughout the southeastern United States, where she served as the chief nursing officer and chief learning officer. Prior to Teleios, Webb held a variety of progressive leadership positions at Four Seasons Compassion for Life, a hospice and palliative care provider serving counties in rural western North Carolina. She also serves on the board of directors for the Hospice and Palliative Nurses’ Association. Webb earned her BSN from Indiana University, MSN from George Washington University and DNP from the University of Minnesota and is certified as a hospice and palliative care administrator. An experienced nurse educator, clinical and executive leader who has held leadership positions in behavioral health, home health and acute care, Webb is committed to advancing excellence in professional nursing practice and interprofessional collaborative practice. She is an invited presenter and publishes on interprofessional collaborative models.
our faculty within our Healthcare in Adult Populations Division and assumed important responsibilities in the Psychiatry Mental Health major in our MSN program. He is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner with more than 30 years of nursing experience. Brion isn’t new to DUSON as he was an assistant professor from 2007 to 2013. After DUSON, he was on the faculty and served as the director of the Graduate Entry Program at The Ohio State University (OSU). He is the former director of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program for the Ohio Department of Health, the former executive director of the Ohio Board of Nursing, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and the American Assembly for Men in Nursing. Brion earned a bachelor’s, a master’s in adult health nursing, a post-master’s certification in psychiatric nursing and a PhD in nursing with a cognate focus in clinical counseling from OSU. He is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, American Psychiatric Nurses Association and American Association of Nurse Practitioners. He is also a founding member of the Duke Chapter of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing. Brion’s scholarship is focused on psychosocial adaption to chronic illness, specifically HIV, and more recently on the role of self-compassion in successful adaptation to physical and mental illness.
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Funk
Emily Funk, DNP’14, MSN ’10, CRNA, is
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an assistant professor within the Clinical Health Systems and Analytics Division and has teaching responsibilities in our Nurse Anesthesia – DNP Program. She is a staff nurse anesthetist at Duke University Medical Center, the CRNA pediatric clinical lead and a CRNA charge nurse. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, she contributed to DUSON’s nurse anesthesia program as a clinical associate where she provided workshops and lectures in pharmacology, pathophysiology and anesthesia principles as well as served as a member of several DNP student projects. Funk graduated magna cum laude with her BSN from The Ohio State University and earned her MSN and DNP at Duke University. Her capstone project, “Structured Handover in the Pediatric PACU,” won the 2017 American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses Mary Hanna Memorial Journalism Award. Funk’s professional interests are focused in pediatric anesthesia, education, quality improvement and global health, which has included missions to Haiti, Philippines and Uganda.
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Kara McGee, DMS, MSPH, PA-C, AAHIVS, is an assistant professor within
Stephanie Gedzyk-Nieman, DNP, MSN, RNC-MNN, is an assistant
our Healthcare in Adult Populations Division and assumed an integral role in our HIV Specialty within the MSN program. McGee has been practicing HIV medicine for more than 14 years and is a physician assistant in the Duke Health Adult HIV Clinic. She also practices at a community health center in Henderson, North Carolina, with focus on HIV and primary care in rural populations. Prior to joining our faculty, she was a consulting associate instructor in the HIV specialty, helped develop the HIV specialty program for nurse practitioner students, and was lead faculty for the psychosocial, legal, political and ethical aspects of HIV course. She was also a clinical instructor for the physical assessment and diagnostic reasoning in advanced practice nursing course as well as faculty for the cultural determinants of health and health disparities course that’s taught to first-year medical students in the Duke University School of Medicine. McGee holds a bachelor’s in biology and medical technology from the Catholic University of American, a master’s in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Doctor of Medical Science from Lincoln Memorial University’s Debusk College of Osteopathic Medicine and a physician assistant degree from SUNY Stony Brook. She is also a certified HIV specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine.
professor within our Healthcare of Women, Children and Families Division and has teaching responsibilities in our ABSN program. Before coming to Duke, she was on the faculty of Lewis University’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CONHS) where she taught a course on the theory and clinical for the childbearing families, professional development, and role transition and evidenced-based practice to baccalaureate and accelerated baccalaureate students for more than 15 years. She also served as a preceptor for students in the Chicago area pursuing an MSN in Nursing Education. In addition to her teaching, Gedzyk-Nieman served on a variety of committees at both the CONHS and the university- level at Lewis University. She earned her BSN from the University of Iowa and her MSN in Nursing Education and DNP from Lewis University. Gedzyk-Nieman’s scholarly work is focused on gender diversity in the nursing profession and nursing self-care. She has published and presented widely on these topics. Her work on attitudes of acceptance of male nurses among female nurses was also a finalist for the 2018 Excellence in Educational Research Award at Sigma’s International Nursing Congress in Sydney, Australia. She is an active member of the American Association for Men in Nursing Foundation Board and led Lewis University’s CONHS AAMN Center of Excellence application.
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Lewinski
Maryellen Kelly, DNP, CPNP, is an
Brandon Knettel, PhD, is an assistant
Allison Lewinski, PhD’17, MPH, RN,
assistant professor within our Healthcare of Women and Children Division. Before joining our faculty, she was a clinical associate in both our ABSN and MSN programs. She has been a pediatric nurse practitioner in pediatric urology for nine years. Kelly is currently a NIH K12 scholar and funded for her research into bladder dysfunction in children with diabetes and has completed the first multi-center, cross-sectional survey of children identifying the true prevalence of bladder dysfunction in children with diabetes. She is working within Duke’s Urinary Dysfunction Lab to search for potential biomarkers of bladder dysfunction in diabetics. She’s presented at more than 40 national and international scientific meetings. Kelly received her BSN and MSN from Columbia University and her DNP from the University of Pittsburgh. She is enrolled in Duke’s Clinical Research Training Program which will culminate in a master’s in health science clinical research. Kelly’s clinical practice focuses on voiding dysfunction, neurogenic bladder and bowel secondary to spina bifida, hydronephrosis and vesicoureteral reflux.
professor within our Clinical Health Systems and Analytics Division. He is a licensed psychologist in North Carolina and behavioral health scientist specializing in research that examines and addresses the social determinants of health and wellbeing. This includes efforts at stigma reduction, improving health care engagement, and building capacity for mental health treatment in underserved settings and populations both in the United States and across multiple global sites. Prior to coming to DUSON, Knettel was a postdoctoral associate at the Duke Global Health Institute, where he worked on NIH-funded projects aimed at providing mental health treatment and reducing stigma among women living with HIV in Tanzania and South Africa. As a VECD Fogarty Global Health fellow, he completed a one-year project in Moshi, Tanzania, to develop a training program for community health workers supporting HIV treatment. Knettel earned his doctorate in counseling psychology from Lehigh University. He completed his postdoctoral clinical training at Duke Integrative Medicine. He has completed research examining the value of community-based interventions to promote mental health among U.S. refugee populations as well as evaluations of UNICEF-sponsored task-shifting programs for health education in Haiti and Papua New Guinea. The emphasis on his current work is to develop a counseling intervention to address mental health challenges, including depression and suicidal thoughts, and to improve care engagement among people newly diagnosed with HIV in Tanzania.
is an assistant professor in a shared VA-DUSON appointment in the Clinical Health Systems and Analytics Division. She is a health services researcher with a focus on eHealth interventions and chronic illness self-management. Lewinski has a full-time appointment at the Durham Veterans Administration. She received a career development award at the VA that examines the association of diabetes distress and related factors using quantitative and qualitative method in order to develop a novel, nurse-led intervention to improve self-management in veterans with type 2 diabetes. She earned a bachelor’s from Michigan State University, a BSN from Maryville University in St. Louis, a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan, a PhD in Nursing from DUSON and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in health services research at the Durham Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation at the Durham VA. Lewinski’s work sits at the intersection of precision medicine and population health. Her interest in health services and nursing research, specifically in developing and implementing sustainable interventions to improve health outcomes, is an extension of her experiences in public health and nursing. She is also interested in examining intervention implementation and adaptation as a means to understand how, why, when and for what populations and settings interventions work.
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Tennyson
Carolina “Callie” Tennyson, DNP, MSN’12, ACNP-BC, AACC , joined
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our faculty in the Healthcare in Adult Populations Division. Before joining our faculty, she was a clinical instructor within our Acute Care Nurse Practitioner major in our MSN program. With extensive experience in cardiac critical care and cardiothoracic surgical intensive care, she works with the inpatient advanced heart failure services at Duke University Hospital. She has lectured for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the American College of Cardiology on acute heart failure and hemodynamic topics. Tennyson received her BSN from East Carolina University, a MSN in Adult-Gerontology Acute Care from DUSON, and a DNP from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her clinical focus is in cardiothoracic and cardiac critical care specializing in advanced heart failure, ventricular assist devices and heart transplant.
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Petsas Blodgett
Allison Stafford, PhD, RN, joined
Nicole Petsas Blodgett, PhD, RN,
our faculty in the Healthcare of Women, Children and Families Division. Before joining our faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at DUSON. She earned her BSN and PhD in Nursing Science from Indiana University. Stafford’s program of research is focused on promoting mental health equity among Latinx young people. Her postdoctoral research, funded by the Duke Center for Research to Advance Health Equity, was centered on identifying facilitators of and barriers to depression treatment use among Latinx adolescents. She was also involved in the longitudinal study investigating the relationships between acculturation stress, resilience and mental health among young adult Latinx immigrants led by DUSON’s Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD, MPH, RN, CPH, FAAN, associate professor. Stafford was awarded a Bass Connections grant from Duke University to expand the work of Gonzalez-Guarda’s team in understanding how the U.S. immigration climate is influencing the mental health outcomes of Latinx immigrants in North Carolina.
joined our faculty in the Health Systems and Analytics Division as the Director of the Center for Nursing Discovery. Before joining our faculty, she was an assistant professor of nursing and the coordinator of Simulation and Clinical Learning at Purdue University Northwest. Under her leadership, Purdue’s simulation program grew by 1,250 percent. Blodgett brings a wealth of experience to DUSON, having integrated simulation throughout the undergraduate nursing curriculum oriented and mentored faculty, graduate assistants and simulation staff to use evidence-based and creative simulation-based learning experiences and evaluated the use, effectiveness and quality of simulation. She created a student-centered, psychologically safe, realistically simulated clinical environment for meaningful learning opportunities and was a key advisor for designing a new nursing building that will significantly increase simulation capacity. Blodgett earned her BSN from Marycrest International University and her MSN with an occupational health focus and PhD with an adult and gerontological nursing focus from the University of Iowa.
Thornlow
Smith
Molloy
Short
Schneider
Hu
Knettel
Kelly
Tennyson
Funk
Webb
Gadhoumi
Xiao
Stafford
Lewinski
Gedzyk-Nieman
Mary Louise Affronti promoted to Professor Track II
Xiao Hu appointed as Professor Track I
Kais Gadhoumi appointed as Assistant Professor Track III
Deidre K. Thornlow promoted to Associate Professor Track II
Brandon Knettel appointed as Assistant Professor Track III
Ran Xiao appointed as Assistant Professor Track III
Sophia K. Smith promoted to Associate Professor Track I
Maryellen S. Kelly appointed to Assistant Professor Track III
Allison Stafford appointed as Assistant Professor Track I
Margory Molloy promoted to Associate Professor
Carolina D. Tennyson appointed to Assistant Professor Track II
Allison A. Lewinski appointed as Assistant Professor Track III
Nancy M. Short promoted to Associate Professor Emerita
Emily Funk appointed as Assistant Professor Track II
Stephanie A. Gedzyk-Nieman appointed as Assistant Professor Track II
Susan M. Schneider promoted to Associate Professor Emerita
Michelle A. Webb appointed as Assistant Professor Track II
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Promotions & Transitions
Recent Grant Awards
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National Institutes of Health/NCI “Using a SMART Design to Optimize PTSD Symptom Management Strategies Among Cancer Survivors” PI Sophia Smith $3,176,556 (December 1, 2019 – November 30, 2024)
Medical College of Wisconsin/NIH NICHD (R01) “Implementation of an Evidence-based Parentally Administered Intervention for Preterm Infants”
Michael E. Zychowicz, DNP, ANP, ONP, FAAN, FAANP, professor, has
been elected as the treasurer for the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) for 2020 to 2022. He recently completed a two-year term on the board as a member at large.
n Bush Selected as Fellow of ASPET
University of California, Davis/NIH (R01) “Goals for Reaching Optimal Wellness: GROWell”
Margaret (Peggy) Bush, PhD, MBA, RPh, associate professor, was selected as a fellow of the Academy of Pharmacology Educators by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. The Academy of Pharmacology Educators recognizes individuals who have made exemplary contributions to pharmacology education in one or more of the following areas: student-teacher interaction, innovative contributions, scholarly endeavors, and/or professional development and service.
National Institutes of Health/NHLBI “Optimizing Inclusion of Blacks Within a Dietary Change Intervention to Reduce Hypertension” PI Dori Steinberg $367,632 (April 10, 2020 – June 30, 2023)
National Institutes of Health/NICHD “Enhancing the Transition from Hospital to Home for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury and Families” PI Tolu Oyesanya $327,144 (February 1, 2020 – January 31, 2022)
Durham Center for Senior Life/DHHS ACL “Dementia Inclusive Durham - Durham Center for Senior Life/ HHS-2019-ACL-AOA-ADPI-0360” Subaward Site PI Eleanor McConnell $136,462 (August 30, 2019 - September 29, 2022) DUKE NURSING SUMMER 2020
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MPI Debra Brandon $1,110,638 (April 15, 2020 – March 31, 2025)
Subaward Site PI Devon Noonan Co-Investigator Dori Steinberg $310,285 (October 10, 2019 – September 30, 2024)
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Association of Oncology Social Work (AOSW) “Usability of a Mobile App for CLL Survivor” PI Sophia Smith $90,000 (November 21, 2019 – November 20, 2020)
n Trotter and Breast Surgical Oncology Team
Receive Presidential Award
Kathryn J. Trotter, DNP’12, MSN’93, CNM, FNP-C, FAANP, FAAN, associate professor, and colleagues received the Duke Presidential Award at a ceremony on February 25 in Page Auditorium. According to a Duke Today write-up, the nine women of the Breast Surgical Oncology Team are compassionate guides for patients undergoing care for breast cancer and work to make Duke’s care more efficient and effective. By constantly looking out for the needs of the patients and spearheading outreach efforts, the group has become an integral part of Duke’s cancer care.
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For Duty, Not Glory By Rebecca Lynch, DUSON DNP student
I am not a hero. I am not wearing a Superman suit under my scrubs. I am not actively seeking danger or trying to sacrifice my health and safety for my patients. I am not thrilled that there is a shortage of masks for my colleagues. I am not excited that, each day, healthcare workers are exposed to a novel virus that kills. But, I was not forced into healthcare by an authoritarian leader with a quota to meet. I am a nurse. I am a nurse practitioner. I am trained to assess, diagnose and prescribe medications to humans to treat disease. I am trained to view a person as a person, rather than a disease. I am trained to have empathy. I am trained and experienced in providing healthcare in a variety of settings to people from all walks of life. I chose, and choose, this profession every day. I did sign up for this.
To the general population: thank a healthcare worker. Thank a nurse, who is crying in the bathroom, after cleaning the body of a patient who, only hours, before was laughing at a corny nurse joke. Thank a respiratory therapist who is diligently checking vent settings. Thank an environmental services’ staff member who is in the shadows, silently cleaning the hospital, despite the risk. Thank a physician, who is spending hours of the day trying to come up with a novel treatment plan for a novel disease while fielding calls from family, friends, media, and their kid’s friend’s parents. To the healthcare workforce: be safe, be strong, and be diligent. Don’t let your guard down; don’t get lazy. Don’t touch you face; wash your hands a million times a day. Find a good lotion for your cracked knuckles. Be loud if you don’t have the protection you need. Be supportive of your colleagues. Find a way to help a wife speak with a quarantined husband. Let yourself cry if you need to; but, don’t forget your oath. Don’t forget that you were trained to stand watch over patients; you must provide high quality care to each patient, regardless of any demographic characteristics. Don’t forget that we get to take care of people in their worst moments. I will continue to treat patients despite the risk to me because I did sign up for this.
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At this point, there isn’t a moment that goes by that the average American can escape the thought of, news about, or evidence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The news coverage is constant; the fear palpable. People are inundated with statistics, advice, recommendations, and the stream of consciousness with the omnipresent influence of social media. As a healthcare provider, I am receiving frequent calls, text messages, or emails from family and friends asking about my health, my status, and expressing their appreciation and concern for me and those near me. I appreciate the concern. I think it is great that people appreciate healthcare workers, especially since March Madness was canceled.
Last night, after stripping in my doorway, preventing my son from touching me, washing my shoes with disinfectant, and showering, I sat with my family to watch the local news. Onto the screen came a grainy image of a nurse, in a hospital, describing the shortage of personal protective equipment. I heard the words “I didn’t sign up for this” spill from the nurse’s lips. At first, I was certain I had misheard. I was completely flummoxed with this statement; therefore, I couldn’t have heard her correctly. Then, I got angry.
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I raised my right hand and swore to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic” twice; yet, another pledge has been more impactful on my practice and my life. As a young woman, I stood holding a lantern in front of my mother, son, friends, classmates and professors and recited that “I shall be loyal to my work and devoted towards the welfare of those committed to my care” from the original Nightingale Pledge. This pledge defines the guiding principles of the nursing profession. Following this traditional rite of passage, I donned my pin designating me as a nurse.
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n PhD Alumni Scott Receives Fellowship Award Jewel Scott, PhD’20, was awarded the Trudy Bush Fellowship Award for Cardiovascular Disease Research in Women’s Health at the American Heart Association Epidemiology & Lifestyle Scientific Sessions. The title of her presentation was “Social Networks are Associated with Ideal Cardiovascular Health in Young Adult Black Females.” Coauthors include Susan Silva, PhD, associate professor and Leigh Ann Simmons.
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Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MSN’17, MPH, LCSW, RN, ANP-BC, AAHIVS, was appointed to serve on the United States Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS (PACHA). Members of the council provide guidance and recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in order to promote effective prevention, treatment and care and to ensure quality services for people living with and affected by HIV. Guilamo-Ramos was sworn in by ADM Brett P. Giroir, the assistant secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
n Affronti Receives Palliative
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Mary Affronti, DNP’13, MHSc, MSN’86, RN, ANP, associate professor, received a Palliative
n Kim Elected National AAPINA President
Care Advocacy Award from the Duke Center for Palliative Care. The award honors members of the Duke Health community not part of Duke’s palliative care program who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to integrating the key elements of palliative care into their daily work.
Hyeoneui Kim, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, associate professor, was chosen as presidentelect of the Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association. She will serve as president-elect for the next two years, after which time she will become president for a two-year term.
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Cherie Conley, PhD’20, is one of only 10
individuals across Duke University to receive the prestigious Dean’s Award. Conley, advised by Professor Isaac Lipkus, PhD, and two other PhD students were recognized for their excellence in mentoring students. Conley also received the 2019/2020 PhD Distinguished Dissertation Award. PhD graduates Morine Cebert, Vanessa Curlee, Bada Kang, Michelle Franklin, Lisa Mansfield and Jane Ralphe were also nominated for this prestigious honor.
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Brigit Carter, PhD, MSN, RN, CCRN, associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion, has been awarded a Diversity in Nursing Award from the American Nurses Association (ANA). The Diversity Award recognizes an individual registered nurse or a group of registered nurses for their long-standing commitment and significant contributions to the advancement of diversity and inclusion within the nursing profession. Carter is one of 13 recipients to receive an ANA 2020 National Award.
Alumna Van Beek Takes Patient Care Curbside During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Angela Richard-Eaglin, DNP, FNP-BC, CNE,
Doctor of Nursing Practice Leadership Specialty
of the COVID-19 quarantine. Van Beek works in an Anticoagulation Clinic, and the pandemic causes her patients to be hesitant to come to the lab and clinic. Several of her worried patients called and tried to delay testing or would not show up for their appointments at all. However, patients who take warfarin, a blood thinner used to treat or prevent blood clots in veins or arteries, need to have frequent lab tests and delays can lead to bleeding or blood clots. Learning from her colleagues across the nation, Van Beek started drive-through INR testing. Each of her patients received a call prior to their appointment for an interview about their blood thinner as well as an assessment for COVID symptoms. During the call, patients received instructions on where to park for their testing. When the patient arrived at the clinic, they parked in a reserved spot and called Van Beek who met them at their car to test their blood and give them instructions about how much medicine to take.
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FAANP, assistant professor, was awarded a Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for her lecture entitled “Cancer Prevention and Care Beyond the Evidence: Educational Priorities for Health Professionals” for the Perspectives in Cancer Prevention lecture series. Her lecture was deemed an “outstanding contribution to education in cancer prevention.”
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Jennie C. De Gagne, PhD, DNP’14, RN-BC, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, professor, recently delivered
a presentation at the Global Korean Nursing Foundation (GKNF)’s joint web conference between Korea and the US. In line with the conference’s theme, “Nursing Leadership in Pandemic Disaster,” De Gagne spoke on the implications for academic nurse educators during and after the COVID-19 crisis. The webinar was attended by 1,000 nurses.
n Brion Elected to AAMN Board John M. Brion, PhD, PMHNP-BC, instructor,
has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN) as a member at large. AAMN’s mission is “to shape the practice, education, research and leadership for men in nursing and advance men’s health.”
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n PhD Student Wojeck Receives NIH-NRSA Award Robyn Wojeck, PhD student, and her sponsors Chip Bailey, associate professor, and Tamara Somers, of Duke Behavioral Medicine, received an NIH-NRSA award for her proposal entitled “Symptom Clusters in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc).” An estimated 2.5 million people worldwide are challenged with managing the disfiguring, debilitating and often unremitting symptoms of systemic sclerosis. SSc is a rare, chronic multisystem autoimmune disease that often leads to high levels of pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, anxiety and depressive symptoms as well as significant functional disability. The purpose of this study is to understand the distinct symptom experiences of SSc patients with co-occurring symptoms and their relationship with functional disability to inform future development of targeted symptom management interventions.
n Kreider Appointed as Advisor to ADA Team Kathryn Evans Kreider, DNP’13, APRN, FNP-BC, FAANP, associate professor,
was recently appointed as an advisor to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Behavioral Medicine and Psychology Leadership Team. Her term of service will run from July 2020 to June 2022. In this role, Kreider will be responsible for organizing sessions and activities for the annual Scientific Sessions, planning and implementing educational opportunities, reviewing award nominations, leading member engagement, reviewing ADA content (books, educational materials), and working collaboratively with members and ADA staff.
n Racial Justice Task Force Formed The Offices of the Dean and Diversity and Inclusion are partnering to create a Racial Justice Task Force. The goal of the task force is to develop a Racial Justice Action Plan for DUSON. This effort aligns with both Duke President Price’s call for institutional transformation, and commitment to anti-racism actions, as well as the efforts of Duke Health Chancellor Washington to develop a preliminary implementation proposal from Duke Health in September, 2020. The task force is comprised of members representing all areas of the DUSON community. The group will examine the greatest challenges of the school. The Task Force will form work groups that will define specific and measurable transformative racial justice activities that will be implemented at DUSON.
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Researchers Look to Adapt, Expand Projects During Pandemic By Stephanie Turner
“The way that we operate is literally different right now,” said Paula Tanabe, PhD, MSN, MPH, RN, FAEN, FAAN, associate dean for research and Laurel Chadwick Professor of Nursing. “We’ve needed to encourage our research teams to become more creative regarding how we will Tanabe recruit (research subjects) without having a face-to-face encounter in the clinic. You also can’t go in the clinic and just sit with the patient and do a long interview and a big consent because you can only be with somebody for 10 minutes.” Tanabe and her research team, for example, currently have an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant that focuses on giving primary care providers and emergency departments throughout North Carolina tools to better equip themselves to care for sickle cell disease patients. “What we were hoping to see was a decrease in the number of hospitalizations and ER visits and more outpatient visits,” Tanabe said.
One way they plan to do the assessment is by interviewing the health care provider on their telehealth patient care experiences. Tanabe said so far there’s been positive feedback from health care providers as they have been able to gather more information about the patient by observing them in their home environment. In addition to her own research, Tanabe has helped her mentee, Dominique Bulgin, PhD’19 and consulting associate, submit a proposal that also involves analyzing telehealth sickle cell patient care. Bulgin’s REACH Equity Research Scholars Development proposal is titled “Piloting Telehealth Personalized Health Planning in Shared Medical Appointments Bulgin for Sickle Cell Disease.” Through the study, Bulgin is looking to launch a telehealth personalized health planning in shared medical appointments program for adults with sickle cell. Another researcher who has not only adjusted her approach to her current research but who has looked into expanding that research due to COVID-19 is Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD, MPH, RN, CPH, FAAN, associate professor.
Before the pandemic, Gonzalez-Guarda and her team were working on a longitudinal study where they tracked stress levels of
Her team has been able to continue the study with some adjustments. Data collection is now being done by phone or survey, but no biomarker data is currently being collected due to lab closures and health risks associated with in-person contact. Gonzalez-Guarda
Gonzalez-Guarda and her team have requested funding in order to widen their study’s focus to analyze the impact COVID-19 is having on its participants’ stress levels. One proposal they have submitted is “SER Hispano during COVID-19: Salud/Health, Estres/Stress, and Resiliencia/Resilience (SER) Among Latinx Immigrants During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The submission is in response to the PA-18-935 Urgent Supplement for Competitive Revision to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements and will specifically focus on how the pandemic is affecting young adult Latinx immigrants in the US. “We have the opportunity to evaluate an actual natural experiment that unfolded during our study, which will allow us to see the impact COVID-19 is having on our community,” Gonzalez-Guarda said.
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One change researchers have had to make is how they communicate with their subjects. Due to social distancing mandates, researchers are having to rely on other methods to collect data such as phone and video calls and online communication.
Latinx immigrants over the course of two years, checking in and gathering biomarkers and other data from the participants every six months.
In response to the pandemic, the team submitted a supplement to be able to assess how telehealth has impacted sickle cell patient care.
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The coronavirus may have altered their approach, but researchers at DUSON have pressed on in their work with some even taking the opportunity to expand their research.
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Serving Our Community In a Pandemic By Stephanie Turner As more and more nurses are focused on fighting on the COVID front lines, the Durham community has been turning more and more to DUSON for assistance in navigating through this time. Over the last few months, DUSON faculty, staff, and students have been stepping up to ensure locals’ needs are being met. “As a school of nursing, we have an obligation to help keep our community safe and healthy, and I think our community members are reaching out to us because we are a trusted partner,” said Donna Biederman, DrPH, MN, RN, FAAN, associate professor, and Duke Community Health Improvement Partnership Program (D-CHIPP) director.
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DUSON faculty and staff have joined other community stakeholders from Durham, Orange, and Wake counties to form Latin-19, a group whose mission is to keep the Latinx community informed and connected during the pandemic. DUSON participants include Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD, MPH, RN, CPH, FAAN, associate professor, Irene Felsman, DNP, MPH, RN, C-GH, assistant professor, and Rosa Solorzano, MD, MPH, consulting associate.
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The group has evaluated COVID-19 information, translated documents and advocated for local governments to release materials in Spanish. It has also tapped into its networks to disseminate resources to local Latinx residents. “We’re learning from our community that there’s just a lot of misinformation about the pandemic, which we’re trying to address,” Gonzalez-Guarda said. Gonzalez-Guarda has also been working with Duke’s Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) to address other ways to represent minority demographics through her capacity as the institute’s co-director of the Community Engagement Core. “Unfortunately, we’re hearing that there’s a lot of health disparities that are coming to light as a result of COVID-19,” she said. “Minority-based communities are being hit really hard because of this. Our CTSI team has been working with researchers to try to better engage underrepresented groups.”
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They have collaborated with a few Dukeassociated initiatives: Covidentify, a study to see if smartphone and smartwatch data can detect the presence of COVID in the user;
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Serving other populations ABSN students, with Felsman’s assistance, have joined Church World Service in providing refugees with information on the pandemic and available resources. DUSON students are also assisting Curamericas Global to reach the women and children who use their health care services and helping call clients with low-to-moderate income for Healing With CAARE Inc.
Gonzalez-Guarda participated in CTSI’s “Research Symposium – A Call to Action: Identifying next steps to address biomedical, health care, and social drivers of COVID-19 disparities,” which looked at the health imbalances COVID has caused. Outside of Duke, Gonzalez-Guarda and her CTSI team have been working with community partners such as the statewide AME Zion Church network. “With the network, we invite researchers to come to present their work and give them feedback on their protocols and advice on how to improve their materials to be able to appeal and to reach African-American communities,” Gonzalez-Guarda said.
Serving the homeless Families Moving Forward is a D-CHIPP partner whose mission is to help families that are facing homelessness. Biederman and Heather Mountz, D-CHIPP program coordinator, have worked to make sure that the families and staff have needed supplies to stay well and safe, such as masks and thermometers. The masks were supplied by Covering the Triangle, which was started in part by Eric Westman and Lawrence Howard Greenblatt from the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke medical students. Biederman co-hosted an information session for local homeless organizations and shelters to provide advice on how to keep residents and staff healthy and safe and participates in a group that has been advising the emergency operations center for Durham County on how to serve the homeless population during this time. “The Duke University Health System has been incredibly involved in the COVID response from the homeless perspective and has worked with their community partners to better understand issues related to COVID-19 and the homeless,” Biederman said.
“The strength of our community relationships is paying off in a good way for both us and for our community partners because we’re evolving together,” Biederman said. “I think that those strong relationships that we had galvanized aren’t going away, and we are learning what it takes to make them better.”
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the Healthcare Worker Exposure Response & Outcomes (HERO) Registry, a national clinical research database aimed at gaining a better grasp of the current experiences of health care workers; and Community Health Watch, a program that helps community members monitor their COVID symptoms. Ryan Shaw, PhD’12, RN, associate professor, is a leader for the Covidentify study.
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D-CHIPP has also collaborated with a group of local organizations to train volunteers to provide reassurance calls to seniors. Mountz created a consistent script for the callers; Eleanor S. McConnell, PhD, MSN’78, BSN’76, RN, GCNS, BC, associate professor, also worked on this effort.
2020 Alumni Awards
The Duke University School of Nursing recognizes distinguished alumni, faculty and friends for their significant contributions to the School and the nursing community at large. This year, the School is proud to recognize the outstanding recipients of the following awards: Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Science, Trailblazer, Clinical Practice Excellence, Humanitarian, Distinguished Alumnus and Lifetime Achievement.
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Carole Ann Klove, BSN’80, RN, JD Carole Ann Klove is chief nursing officer and counsel at Elemeno Health in Oakland, California. Klove and her team have created a digital health technology solution that empowers and supports front line nurses and other professionals with microlearning tools to deliver just-in-time information and team communication at the point of need and care to drive consistency of practices, including those involving COVID-19, to health systems and providers throughout the country. Klove has over 35 years of experience in health care. After graduating from DUSON, she started her career as a neurosurgical and an intensive care unit nurse and charge nurse and then went on to law school to begin a legal career that is focused on health care matters, litigation and regulatory compliance. Klove became a health care partner in the national law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, where she was a recognized leader and speaker on health care compliance programs like the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active
Labor Act (EMTALA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). She then transitioned to consulting, serving as a partner with Deloitte to help build a national health care regulatory practice. Klove was a key leader in creating the Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Research and Education, which supports the compliance and education of clinical research activities at Stanford, while serving as chief compliance and privacy officer at Stanford Hospitals and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. She was recognized as a national expert in managing clinical data privacy breaches, while working at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Sciences as chief compliance and privacy officer for UCLA’s three hospitals, faculty practice group and the medical school. Klove used her Duke nursing talents not only in her career endeavors but also in the community. She led medical mission trips to Nepal and Mexico through her church, has worked with the Coastside Medical Reserve Corps and Disaster Healthcare Volunteers, and volunteers as a nurse at the Rotocare Clinic in Half Moon Bay, California. She is a lifelong volunteer and supporter of Duke. Klove is a member of Duke Alumni Association and has served as president
Elizabeth J. Barfield, EdD, RN, MSN’72, BSN’70, ASN Elizabeth J. Barfield is professor emerita and former dean of the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Salisbury University in Maryland, and professor emerita and retired nursing department chair at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). A distinguished nurse educator and a leader in transitioning nursing education from hospital to academic settings, Barfield developed programs for nurses to earn advanced degrees and develop their careers. As an accomplished grant writer, her work helped institutions receive more than $3 million in external funds to support nursing education. She received funding from the Department of Health and Human Services for three advanced nurse training grants, including the master’s program in rural health nursing at Salisbury University which received the Maryland Association for Higher Education Distinguished Academic Program Award in 1984. A pioneer in the movement to increase diversity in nursing education and practice, she implemented a mentoring project to recruit and retain students from disadvantaged backgrounds. While at CSUSB, she wrote the grant that established a master’s program to prepare nurses for advanced practice in diverse communities. Barfield chaired the Department of Nursing at CSUSB for six years and directed the first statesupported Bachelors of Science in Nursing program in the Inland Empire region of California, an underserved area with a highly diverse population. Hundreds of nurses have benefited from her work as chair of the Governor’s Nursing Validation Committee, which developed the Maryland registered nurse articulation model. This model allows
Lifetime Achievement Jay E. Barrett, RN, BSN’70, MBA Jay E. Barrett is the nurse manager of the Women Veteran’s Health program for the Veteran Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System. Her leadership role and her 23 years of military service exemplify the qualities of a truly outstanding woman and veteran. After graduating from Duke in 1970, she joined the military and was deployed to Vietnam to work at the 85th Evacuation Hospital at Phu Bai. After six years of active duty, she joined the U.S. Army Reserves, where she served for more than 17 years and rose through the ranks to Lieutenant Colonel. As a chief nurse at the 1,000-bed 373rd General Hospital, she mentored young women to be managers and to take leadership roles. In 1991, she retired from the military. Barrett is a fierce advocate for women veterans. As the first Women’s Health nurse manager for the VA Boston Healthcare System, she has been a leader in nursing education and culture change for the hospital. She led quality improvement efforts, and her team received numerous awards, including the Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN 1) Top Performer in Women’s Health for 2016. Barrett herself was awarded the VA I CARE (Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect and Excellence) award in 2016 for her commitments to the VA core values. An activist
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registered nurses with diplomas and associate degrees to earn bachelor’s degrees from universities throughout the state. During her tenure at Salisbury University, she partnered with the faculty to revise the nursing undergraduate curriculum and developed a nationally accredited master’s program in nursing, the first in a six campus system governed by the Maryland Board of Trustees of State Universities and Colleges. Barfield received Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing degrees from DUSON and a Doctor of Education degree in higher education administration from the College of William and Mary.
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of the Duke University School of Nursing Alumni Council and Association. Most recently, she joined the Board of Advisors of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Kloved received a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing degree from Duke University School of Nursing and a doctor of law degree from Southwestern Law School.
for trauma-informed care, she authored the chapter, “Trauma Informed Nursing Care” in 2019 in the book: Trauma Informed Healthcare Approaches, A Guide for Primary Care. She has been a featured speaker at the Massachusetts Women Veterans Conference, where she discussed the VA Whole Health initiative, a veteran-centered approach to personalized health care goal setting. She believes the initiative is critical for veterans who leave the military health care system and enter a system that requires self-advocacy. Barrett has been a core member of the initiative’s team and has presented the topic at several national training conferences. In 2017, she was awarded the Deborah Sampson Award by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for her outstanding service and continuing contributions. In addition to her nursing career, Barrett volunteers for her town and church community. She is a founding member of Walpole Families of Faith, which runs the Breaking Bread program to provide a free meal to families and individuals in the community every Monday. She has traveled on a service trip with Mil Milagros, a non-profit organization that works to improve children’s health and education in Guatemala. Barrett received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from DUSON and a Master in Business Administration degree from Northeastern University.
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Amie Koch, DNP, MSN’08, BSN’04, FNP-C, RN, ACHPN Amie Koch, DUSON assistant professor, practices clinically as a palliative care and hospice nurse practitioner at Transitions LifeCare, a non-profit organization in Raleigh, North Carolina. She serves the most ill members of the community and oftentimes cares for those without insurance or financial capability to pay. Over the last 20 years, Koch has donated her time and voice to advocate for the most vulnerable individuals in the community. She provides educational talks to raise awareness of palliative care and end-oflife resources for local families and caregivers, many of whom are unaware of available resources that are offered to support them and their ill loved one. While a student at DUSON, she grew her commitment to those in need. Koch motivated other
students to volunteer at soup kitchens and homeless shelters and organized toiletry donation drives for community shelters and the Durham AIDS Alliance. Equipped with the knowledge she gained in her nursing program, Koch worked with a family transitional housing shelter to promote nutrition education to children and their parents. Her passion for helping others was fostered by the Duke community, and she continued to volunteer her time with such organizations as the Durham Crisis Response Center, where she helped to support women who had been victims of domestic abuse, and Urban Ministries, where she led breast cancer screening education and support to women. Koch has furthered her impact on the Durham community by successfully advocating for sidewalks in disadvantaged neighborhoods, where unsafe conditions dissuaded children, parents, and other residents from going outside. The addition of sidewalks in these communities provide safe access to schools, parks and bus stops and help decrease disparities in the community. She has volunteered her time in the local women’s prison and written opinion pieces to bring awareness to the injustice of the phone calls price for incarcerated people, which negatively impacts their health. Koch advocated for homeless families in Durham. She has developed and taught healthy lifestyle classes for mothers at local residential homeless shelters. The classes empowered women to focus on health promotion, disease prevention, and mental and emotional health awareness. In addition to her work with homeless mothers, Koch has also volunteered her time to help children affected by homelessness by providing tutoring and reading assistance. In 2018, Koch was elected to the Durham Mayor Women’s Council and serves on the health and housing committee. She helps build a more equitable, safe and healthy community for women and children in Durham. While a lecturer at North Carolina Central University, she created valuable volunteer experiences for her nursing students and provided them with opportunities to participate in the humanitarian aspects of community nursing. She continues her community advocacy and passion for improving the health of vulnerable populations in her position as assistant professor at DUSON. Koch received an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing degrees from DUSON and a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from East Carolina University.
Regalado “Reggie” Valerio Jr. is a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) at LAC+USC (Los Angeles County + University of Southern California) Medical Center and an academic, clinical, and simulation faculty member at the USC Program of Nurse Anesthesia, Keck School of Medicine. Valerio facilitates laboratory simulations on anesthesia planning, management and delivery in a safe and controlled learning environment for nurse anesthetist students in the simulation program at USC. For three years in a row, Valerio has served as an item writer for the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists’ (NBCRNA) self-evaluation exam, which helps prepare anesthesia students for their national certification examination. Shortly after he graduated from DUSON, he took a leadership position and became the president of the Philippine Nurses Association of Southern California (PNASC), a Filipino professional nursing organization that aims to promote professional excellence and contribute to significant outcomes to health care and society. At the beginning of his inauguration in May 2018, Valerio launched his mantra for his executive term — PNASC RISE, which stands for his goals: Recruit and Retain, Innovate and Inspire, Serve, Empower and Engage PNASC owners/members. Under his governance, the organization surpassed its membership goals, provided numerous scholarship grants, facilitated community outreach and volunteerism, partnered research ventures with different health organizations, and achieved its long-term goal of becoming a bona fide charitable organization. Through Valerio’s leadership, PNASC continues to collaborate with other professional organizations and agencies to develop and implement programs relevant to the nursing practice, education and research. The achievements of PNASC’s executive board under Valerio made a huge impact on nursing and health care in general in the Los Angeles area. Valerio holds double bachelor degrees in medical technology and nursing from the Philippines,
Clinical Practice Excellence Sonya M. Glavin, MSN’98, FNP-C, IBCLC Sonya M. Glavin is a senior nurse practitioner at SAS Health Care Center in Cary, North Carolina. As a family nurse practitioner for over 20 years, she has provided high quality care to patients across the lifespan, specializing in pediatrics, lactation and quality improvement. She is a member of the North Carolina Nurses Association, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Sigma the International Honor Society of Nursing, where she served as a board member at large for Beta Epsilon. She has also been trained in touchpoints early childhood development and newborn observation examination through the Brazelton Institute at Harvard Medical School. Glavin has been a local and national presenter at the North Carolina Nurse Association Spring Symposiums and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners national conferences. She is longtime clinical instructor and preceptor at DUSON and trains nurse practitioner students in the Master of Science in Nursing degree program. Glavin has been faculty for many courses such as Physical Assessment, Pathophysiology, Transition to Advance Practice and Clinical Pharmacology. In addition, she has provided lactation content and seminars for on campus intensive weeks. In 2002, Glavin participated in a yearlong learning nationwide collaborative through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, focusing on office efficiency, patient-centered care and improving appointment access. She implemented the first Duke Primary Care open access scheduling model in her primary care practice, which improved the process of scheduling appointments
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Regalado “Reggie” Valerio Jr., DNP’17, CRNA
where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Cum Laude respectively. While practicing critical care nursing at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles and UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Valerio pursued a Master of Science in Nurse Anesthesia degree at USC where he graduated as the class valedictorian. For almost seven years now, Valerio has been providing anesthesia in both academic institutions like LAC+USC, and private organizations like Kaiser Permanente in Woodland Hills.
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and increased patient and staff satisfaction. Glavin then served as an improvement advisor for Duke Primary Care network, consulting with practice on office efficiency, patient scheduling and rapid cycle improvement. She received additional training in advanced improvement methods through Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and led the network-wide diabetes care collaborative and the implementation of the chronic disease management registry. Since 2009, Glavin has provided care to families at SAS Health Care Center. She was honored to be chosen as a fellow in the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program in 2018 and implemented a successful project to streamline and improve colon cancer screening process and completions in the practice, using a team based approach to care delivery. In addition to providing primary care to families of SAS Institute, she is also a leader of the quality improvement team and clinical operations liaison. She has volunteered with the American Red Cross, the Vance Granville Mother to Mother support group, the League of Women Voters (LWV) in Granville County and the Health Care Action Legislative Team for LWV working across the state to expand Medicaid. Glavin earned a Master of Science in Nursing degree from DUSON and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Vermont.
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Sharron L. Docherty, PhD, PNP, FAAN Sharron L. Docherty is an associate professor and director of the PhD in Nursing Program at DUSON. She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, and is an associate of the Duke Initiative for Science and Society. Her research focuses on improving health outcomes for children, adolescents, young adults and families undergoing intensive treatment for life-threatening and chronic conditions. She seeks to improve care models, symptom management and decision making from diagnosis through the end of life. In addition, she has a depth of methodological expertise in qualitative and mixed-methods. In 2019, Docherty and Gary Maslow, MD, MPH, associate professor at Duke University School of Medicine, were awarded
more than $3 million from the National Institutes of Health for a five-year period to study the impact of peer i-Coaching for activated self-management optimization in adolescents and young adults with childhood onset chronic conditions. Studies show that as adolescents with chronic conditions who transition to young adulthood, they often remain more dependent on their parents and health care providers versus their healthy peers and lack independence in activated self-management. Docherty, Maslow and their team developed a novel, mobile health intervention that uses telephone and a text-based secure interface to allow young adult patients to access knowledge, experience and emotional support from a trained peer coach who has already developed independence and is an active selfmanager. Peers with shared experiences provide instrumental support that will likely lead to improvements in their quality of life. Docherty served as director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Center for Excellence in Adaptive Leadership for Cognitive Affective Symptom Science Center at DUSON. The center supported the development of innovative research that identifies how to empower individuals living with chronic illness and their caregivers to manage symptoms and optimize health. Docherty practiced as a pediatric nurse practitioner and joined DUSON in 2002 to develop and lead the first Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Acute and Chronic Care Program in North Carolina. She served as the program director until 2010, and, under her leadership, the program was ranked third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, she is also a member of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, the Society for Research in Child Development, the Southern Nursing Research Society, and Sigma Theta Tau. Docherty received a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Windsor, a Master’s of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Bettye Musham, BSN’54,
recently published a book titled The Thing I Miss Most is My Mind – An Insider’s Guide to Achieving Positive Results when Confronted With Alzheimer’s, which is available online. The book received a lot of positive reviews and is helpful to anyone over the age of 50. Musham is still involved with the Duke Islamic Center and serves on the DUSON Board of Visitors.
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Joanne Overgaard, BSN’61,
retired in the fall of 2016 after many years in numerous nursing fields. Overgaard values her time at Duke and feels that it prepared her for her professional life. One of her projects for retirement was to raft the Colorado River, which she accomplished last spring. She went the length of the Colorado River from Lee’s Ferry to Lake Mead with a small group traveling in small Dorey wooden boats. Overgaard planned to travel more but had to put plans on hold due to COVID-19. Her new partner in life is a retired vascular surgeon. They met after the death of both of their spouses to cancer in 2015. Barbara Yowell, BSN’62, has
11 grandchildren all over the country, which provides her some great vacationing spots. Her oldest grandson is a backup quarterback on the Auburn football team, and his younger brother is going to Belmont University as a Division 1
soccer player next year. “My two Phoenix boys are becoming Southerners after all,” she said. Yowell and her husband, Bob, are in good health and two years ago, they moved to a patio home in Durham County. They love to come to Duke and enjoy educational opportunities, friendship and professional lives.
Judith Richards, BSN’64,
returned to live in Durham one year ago to begin anew and enrich her life. Richards is happy to live and work in the place that prepared her for her career.
Sandi Averitt, BSN’67, and her husband, Dick, completed their three-year adventure of boating the Great Loop. They traveled 7,070 miles, through 170 locks, 17 states and two countries on their yacht ‘Amazing Grace III.’ This was a truly amazing adventure and now they can claim the title Gold Loopers. The couple kept a blog of their adventure. See: averittsadventure.wordpress.com.
Kristen Wolfe Goff, BSN’67, and her husband, Dave, enjoy living in Winchester, Virginia, in the summer and Greenville, South Carolina, in the winter to be closer to their three children and grandchildren. During her free time, Goff volunteers at a local hospital and also helps in fundraising for women’s education. The couple appreciates their continued connections with the School of Nursing. They enjoy reading about the Class of 1967 members, keeping up with one another and hearing about their family, volunteer activities, travel and other news.
Betty Futrell-Shepherd, BSN’67,
and her husband live in Sharon Towers in Charlotte, North Carolina. After one and a half years of living there, they have come to realize that they are in the right place because they were offered continuing care throughout their lifetime. Futrell-Shepherd recommends that everyone buy a long-term care insurance policy.
Peg Isenhower, BSN’68, moved into a 55 and older community in Denver, North Carolina. Isenhower said that if she participates in half of the classes or activities that are offered, she would be busy five days a week.
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Anne Wietstock, BSN’79, works
Catherine Gilliss, BSN’71, was
awarded the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Carolyn Steuart, BSN’72,
loves her work. She makes postpartum home visits to mothers and their newborns, and she is excited to go to part-time in July. She is looking forward to spending more time taking photos, enjoying the outdoors and pursuing other interests. Steuart had to delay her travel plans due to the coronavirus, but she is planning now to visit her son and his wife in Truckee, California, and possibly a return visit to Scotland. Steuart and her daughter continue to enjoy being housemates and planting lots of flowering bushes and plants in their front yard. She hopes everyone has a wonderful summer.
Zoe Timperon, BSN’75, and her husband, Don, are embracing retirement, after enjoying rewarding 29 years of professional careers in marketing, public relations and economic development for her and 37 years in the Canadian Air Force for Don. The couple hosted hundreds of guests from 45 countries in their Bed and Breakfast, The Tymparon Inn, over the last nine years, and they continue to enjoy living in their restored 1865 home in Canada. They love hiking and exploring nature, wildlife and the beauty of the American and Canadian parks in their RV with their active seven-yearold border collie, Tango. They enjoy spending time with their family, including their two grandchildren, which fills their hearts with joy. Timperon is looking forward to seeing and catching up with classmates at the 45th Duke Reunion Weekend.
Janice Allen, MSN’77, was
recently promoted to CEO and president of the International Cooperating Ministries, a global faith nonprofit organization in Hampton, Virginia. She also recently celebrated the birth of her sixth grandchild. Allen lives in White Stone, Virginia, where she enjoys going to vineyards, picking crabs and boating. Nancy Schmid, BSN’78, has been a nurse for over 40 years, and she said that she would do it again in a heartbeat. She has had a fulfilling career working in the Veteran Affairs (VA) Health Care System at several different VA Medical Centers in many different roles. Serving veterans has been her calling, and she now has a son serving in the military. Schmid and her husband, Bob Schmid, BS’77, have been married for 41 years and they feel very privileged to both be Duke Alumni. As she plans for retirement, Schmid is grateful for the wonderful education and friends she made at Duke.
1980s Myreda Erickson-O’Brien, BSN’81, received her DNP
degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore in May 2019. She completed a scholarly project focused on improving timely vaccine administration to neonatal intensive care unit patients. Last spring, she presented a poster on this project at the Nurse Practitioner Association of Maryland and at the Academy of Neonatal Nurses Advanced Practice Conference in Indian Wells, California. EricksonO’Brien is still practicing as a neonatal nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, and she will soon start a per diem position in the Level II Neonatal Special Care Unit at
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year by the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders for her 10 years of service as a literacy and English as a second language tutor. Cameron said that her pediatric background and work with people with developmental and cognitive challenges serve her well as a special needs teacher at her church. She finds it hard to believe it has been 50 years since leaving Hanes House and the Annex for the last time, and she is looking forward to seeing her fellow Hanes Honeys at the Reunion weekend.
as a part-time school nurse with the South Bend Community School Corporation. In September 2019, she became a nurse consultant for a school system in nearby Michigan. Besides work, Wietstock serves as the deacon in her church, Cathedral of St. James, in South Bend, Indiana, where her husband, Steve, is the director of music and an organist. Steve is a professor of chemistry at the University of Notre Dame and teaches undergraduate laboratory courses. Wietstock and her husband have been married since 1987, and they have two Cairn terrier dogs. Their first two Cairn terrier dogs died many years ago and in 2011, they adopted their current ones, Petey and Bessie.
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the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center. In addition, she will begin teaching in the neonatal nurse practitioner program at Old Dominion University this summer. When not busy working, she enjoys traveling, particularly to National Park Service sites, singing with the Annapolis Chorale and following Blue Devil basketball games.
Denise Lariviere, BSN’82, lives in Pasadena, California, with her husband and law partner, Kevin Meenan. They celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary in April 2020, and they have two children and two grandsons. Lariviere’s California nursing license is active and put to use in the lawsuits they manage. Margaret Buck Gallagher, BSN’84, was honored to have
one of her paintings recently selected and shown at the Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University. “The Art of Mental Wellness” exhibit (November 2019-January 2020) looked at the intersection of fine art and mental well-being. Gallagher is a member of the Hudgens
Art Center, curates bi-monthly exhibits for her church and is an officer in the Dunwoody Fine Art Association, all near her home in Metro Atlanta, Georgia. Her works in pastels, acrylics and watercolors have been juried into various exhibits in both North Carolina and Georgia. Lynn Brophy, BSN’84, continues
to serve as an oncology clinical nurse specialist for breast and reconstructive surgery at the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Columbus, Ohio. She recently was named vice president of the Beacon of Hope Foundation, an organization that funds activities to feed homeless people in Columbus, Ohio. Brophy recently completed a study about the use of mHealth — the use of mobile phones and other wireless
technology in medical care — to encourage cancer survivors to exercise. She enjoys her 144- year-old home and implementing big plans for the garden. Her children, Ned and Erin, are both in undergraduate school and doing well. In January 2020, Brophy got divorced and now she is enjoying this new chapter of life.
1990s Mary Ann Fuchs, MSN’90, DNP’10, was elected as president
of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, the national organization for nurse leaders, which is a member of the American Hospital Association.
2000s
Mary Colette Carver, MSN’00, enjoys her work as a nursing leader and feels well prepared after completing a DNP degree at Old Dominion University in 2017. She is pleased to have a faculty appointment at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and to contribute to the quality, safety and enhancement of primary care in Southwest Virginia.
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of the Board of Directors of the Army Nurse Corps Association.
as a utilization manager at Duke University Hospital in July 2019. This would be her 22nd year of working at Duke. Smith likes her new position which gives her the time she needs to spend with her grandchild who started daycare recently.
LaShanda Cobbs, MSN’04, DNP’14, recently retired from
the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after 30 years of service. She accepted an adjunct professor position at Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Cobbs is also a newly inducted member
recently inducted as a Fellow Clinical Nurse Specialist with the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists. In 2012, she was inducted as a Fellow of Critical Care Medicine with the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Soltis is a director with ECMO Advantage, and provides consulting, staffing, education and simulation services to ECMO centers across the country. Allen Cadavero, MSN’09, is
happy to inform that his article, “Nurse Graduates’ Perceived Educational Needs after Experiencing the Death
of a Patient: A Descriptive Qualitative Research Study,” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing.
2010s
Jason Bissey, ABSN’11, started
a new pilot position as a triage officer for the Duke University Hospital Department of Hospital Medicine in September 2019. Bissey manages admissions from the Emergency Department and clinics, as well as intensive care unit transfers. Bissey and his wife Jennifer are expecting their first daughter.
Ashley Doughty Harless, ABSN’11, and her husband Brett
welcomed their son, Hayes Alan Harless, on June 4, 2019, in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
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as one of the seven members of the North Carolina Foundation for Nursing Board of Trustees.
started her 21st year at Duke. She was awarded the Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina, a Friends of Nursing Award, and the Triangle Business Journal 2020 Healthcare Hero Award. 2019 was an exciting year for Beltran.
Toki Hassanalizadeh Smith, MSN’06, started a new position
Lisa Soltis, MSN’08, was
Megan Parpart Williams, MSN’02, was appointed to serve
Jennifer Beltran, MSN’11,
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Eleanor Hunt, MSN’01, has been working as a pediatric nurse in acute care and home care for 25 years. She found a new passion, teaching nursing informatics and in 2017, she became a program chair for nursing informatics at Western Governors University.
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Kathy Trotter, DNP’12, MSN’93,
and the advanced practice providers of the breast surgical oncology team have been selected to receive the Duke University Presidential Award for exceptional service to the Duke community. Trotter was the first nurse practitioner at Duke Breast Surgery in 2006.
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Theresa Dowell, MSN’12, DNP’14, opened a health
care clinic for patients with myalgic encephalomyelits, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia in 2016. As a member of the U.S. ME/ CFS Clinician Coalition, Dowell authored a primer for diagnosing and treating the diseases. Dowell welcomed six grandchildren in five years with another one due in a couple of months. Heather Watson, MSN’13, was hired as the first ever health services coordinator for the Semester At Sea program in Fort Collins, Colorado in July 2019. As a career hospital nurse,
this type of job was not on her radar. Watson said the project management experience and dedication to improving the future of electronic health record that she received at DUSON helped her earn this position. She is excited to be working as a nurse in a setting of higher education with focus on global learning. Carlie Felion, MSN’13, works as
a family nurse practitioner in family medicine at Mayo Clinic and lives in Glendale, Arizona. In May 2020, she graduated with a post-masters certificate from the School of Nursing, specializing in psychiatric mental health. Felion plans to pursue a PhD degree at the University of Arizona in the fall. Her doctoral studies will focus on the integration of mental and behavioral health services into primary care sites via telemedicine.
Karin Warner, DNP’14, is the founding member and co-principal investigator of a $50,000 Pitt Seed grant to start a chapter of Women in International Security at the University of Pittsburgh. She was also awarded a $2,000 travel award from the University of Pittsburgh’s African Studies program to support field research on how security affects population health in the Niger Delta. In December 2018, Warner was appointed to the Board of Directors of Pan-Africa Children Advocacy Watch and has been appointed as an internal advisor to the Center for Military Medicine Research at the University of
Pittsburgh. Warner is a faculty advisor to PhD students in the African Studies Department, and teaches classes in the doctor of nursing practice and the Clinical Nurse Leader/ Master of Science in Nursing programs. In the fall semester of 2019, she transferred from the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care to the Department of Nurse Anesthesia to focus on mentoring and advising students and doctoral project work. In addition to her role on the School of Nursing councils and committees, Warner was elected to a three-year term on the Tenure and Academic Freedom Committee of the University of Pittsburgh Senate. Amanda Davis, MSN’14,
was named director of the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg campus. Shamin Hampton, MSN’15, traveled to Alaska after attending her sister-in-law’s
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been married for 15 years and has a seven-year-old child.
Andrea Rivera, MSN’15, had
many things change in her life since graduation, such as marriage, children and careers, but still has her “Duke Wives.” “We continue to encourage one another, provide personal and professional advice and try to be in one another’s lives,” said Rivera. “I’ll forever cherish my time at Duke not only because of the excellence in their nursing programs but because of these girls.” Hari Khalsa, ABSN’17, accepted a position as the admissions nurse for Hospice of Santa Cruz County, California. Khalsa drives all over the area to visit patient homes, and she is the first face of hospice they meet in their contemplation and journey of dying at home. Khalsa loves the Santa Cruz
mountains, only minutes from the beach, and works with a nonprofit that she really believes in. Susan Haynes Little, DNP’17, was not only chosen as one of the North Carolina Great 100 Nurses but also promoted to chief nursing officer of the North Carolina Division of Public Health. Little’s greatest accomplishment was leading the efforts to acknowledge 100 distinguished public health nurses in North Carolina as part of the Centennial Celebration of the 100 Years of the North Carolina Office of Public Health Nursing. She also chaired the American Nurses Association’s Public Health Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice revision committee and served on the
Ian Ryan, ABSN’ 17, was on the United States Naval Ship COMFORT (T-AH-20) hospital ship, returning from Comfort Deployment 2019, a fiveSam Richardson, MSN’14, month deployment to Central DNP’17, recently accepted America, South America and the position of senior nurse the Caribbean to assist our manager for Duke Primary Care. allied countries affected by the Venezuelan refugee crisis. Six Duke alumni were aboard, including three from the School of Nursing.
Jamie Vano, DNP’17, is an
advanced practice provider director of Duke’s Urology fellowship, which provides one year of intensive training in the specialty of urology for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
From Left to Right: LCDR Donald Lucas, MD’09, CDR Tod Morris,HS’12, CDR Travis Harrell, AB’02, LTJG Ian Ryan ABSN’17, LCDR John Arce FNP, MSN’15, DNP’16, and Robert Bradford III ABSN’18.
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Ashley Nelville, MSN’15, has
Duke University School Of Nursing Community Health Improvement Partnership Program Advisory Board.
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wedding in Seattle. It was her first time experiencing Alaska. She stayed in a yurt on a mushing dog farm and helped the proprietor take care of 36 mushing dogs. Hampton then traveled to the natural hot springs and visited the local people. The best part of her trip was seeing a moose on the side of the road.
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Mackenzie Binger, ABSN’18, was nominated for and won a Daisy Award.
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Claret Presley, DNP’19, was
promoted to an assistant medical group administrator for primary care at Kaiser Permanente. She oversees multiple sites for outpatient settings in adult and family medicine and subspecialties such as neurology, pulmonology, sleep lab and more. Presley started the formation of a nonprofit organization, which will provide free surgical treatment to the vulnerable population in her hometown, Concepcion, and the province of Tarlac in the Philippines. She is in partnership with MedShare, a nonprofit organization that provides and delivers surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need around the world. She is also a co-founder of Inspire, LLC, a leadership development and coaching company. Presley and her husband Chris recently
came back from their holiday vacation in Thailand and the Philippines. Their 16-year-old son, Kiel, started driving and their 10-year-old son, Shaun, did his first runway walk at New York Fashion Week. Presley’s husband started the executive MBA program at Brown University. Alexa Lantiere, ABSN’19,
graduated from the ABSN program in December 2019 and started her first job at Duke University Hospital this March. Trayanna Whiting, MSN’19,
started a new job as a Medical Information Specialist-RN with PPD.
Steven D. Powell, MSN’19, was deployed to Puerto Rico in January 2020, through the Disaster Emergency Medical Personnel System to help with the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that affected the country. Powell was also one of only two
national scholarship winners of the Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs Hill Day in Washington, D.C. He was appointed to the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses’ Health Policy Committee.
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implementation, analysis and the evaluation of software and technology in the clinical setting. Mabalatan also completed a Master of Computer and Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering. Quenisha Greenleaf, ABSN’17, is enrolled in a master’s program at the University of Memphis with a concentration in executive leadership. She plans to obtain a leadership position within the Le Bonheur organization in the next three to five years.
Withnnie Joseph, ABSN’18, is completing her nurse residency program in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s National Hospital.
to the School of Nursing from the United Kingdom in 2016 on a student visa. After her graduation, she got her first nursing job as a cardiothoracic surgery nurse in the intensive care unit at Duke. In November 2019, she became a legal U.S. permanent resident. She started a new position in July 2019 as an operating room nurse at Duke University Hospital. Akinniran keeps in contact
with many of her DUSON friends and celebrated many milestones with them. She was accepted to the master’s in public health program at Baylor University and will start in the fall of 2020. In January 2020, she got engaged to her fiancé, whom she met on her last day of nursing school. They had planned to get married in spring 2020, but due to COVID-19 postponed the wedding to fall 2020.
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Jordan Mabalatan, MSN’18, works with Epic as an analyst at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. He supports the design, building,
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Christina Augustin, ABSN’17, works as a registered nurse on the bone marrow transplant unit at Emory Healthcare. Augustin is an oncology certified nurse as well as a blood and marrow transplant certified nurse. This year she will work on her critical care registered nurse certification exam as well as on her PhD in Nursing application. She hopes to start the program in fall 2021. Augustin aims to conduct research on gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease. She said the School of Nursing has contributed to her growth as a nurse and the impact Duke has had on her will always be embedded in her.
1940s Joanne Bouton Dunwoody, BSN’47
1950s Mary Ann Menefee Byerly, BSN’51 Jerre Benning Boren, BSN’53 Emily Bentley Campbell, BSN’55
1960s Naziya Noorani, MSN’19,
accepted a new position as an education coordinator at Emory Decatur Hospital. She manages orientations and onboarding for clinical staff. Noorani has also become involved in research since she graduated from the School of Nursing.
Mildred Anderson Shailer, BSN’65 Elizabeth Henry, BSN’66
2010s Mary Jo Hovey, MSN’07
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Regalado “Reggie” Valerio Jr., DNP’17, is the proud
recipient of the 2020 Trailblazer Award. When Valerio graduated from Duke University in 2017, he proudly carried the flag of the School of Nursing during the university’s commencement exercise.
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Dean Marion E. Broome joined Duke University President Vincent E. Price and Chancellor for Health Affairs Dr. A. Eugene Washington, the leadership of Duke Health and DUSON and Duke health care workers for a Solidarity Walk against Racism on June 10, 2020. With the theme, “Stronger Together: Duke Health Stands Against Racism,� following the walk, Dean Broome shared her commitment to support racial justice and equality to the hundreds of participants at the event.
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