Left below: A highlight for Broome is to personally congratulate each DUSON graduate. Below: During Broome’s tenure, the School expanded with the 105,000 square foot IPE Building.
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#1 in 2018 and it has remained among the top three in the nation for the past five years. In 2021, the School also moved into the top 10 nursing schools in the world rankings by the QS World University Ranking. “Deans Mary Champagne and Catherine Gilliss did such a great job laying the foundation for this School,” Broome said of her predecessors. “We’ve been able to build and expand. It is clearly a top-tier school without a doubt, and there’s no going back.” A constant for Broome during her deanship has been her dedication to mentoring and leadership development. She was a driving force, along with Dr. Barbara Turner, behind the creation of the Executive Leadership Specialty in the School’s DNP Program. After she leaves her current role, Broome plans to take a year-long coaching certification course to build upon her interest in executive leadership development, specifically for leaders in practice and academe. Looking back on her career, Broome said since mentors played such an important role in developing her as a leader, a commitment to future leaders is a part of who she is as a person. “As a first-generation college student, I received guidance from people who seemed to understand me,” she said. “My mentors were people who weren’t easily intimidated. They were not put off by my energy, by my direct approach, by my questioning, questioning, questioning ‘Can’t we do this better?’”
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discuss the difficult issues surrounding racial injustice and in creating a more open environment at the School. In 2018, under Broome’s leadership, the School took its commitment to expanding lines of communication and opening opportunities to underrepresented populations a step further by creating what is now the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The School has also undergone physical changes under Broome, with the addition of the 105,000 square foot Duke Health Interprofessional Education Building, which houses the Center for Interprofessional Education and Care (IPEC). The IPEC, a joint venture among Duke Health and the Duke Schools of Nursing and Medicine, provides educational opportunities for students to work with their peers across different professions in order to deliver more efficient, team-based patient care. In addition to classroom and office space, the IPEC is home to the School of Nursing’s Health Innovation Lab. The lab is a space where other disciplines, such as medicine, engineering and outside businesses can come together with nurses in shared research and development efforts. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lab fast-tracked testing to expedite developing PPE for Duke Health frontline workers. Such efforts to expand the School’s reach and influence throughout Broome’s tenure undoubtedly contributed to a bump in rankings by the U.S. News & World Report. The School moved from #7 in 2014 to
