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Duke Nursing Volume 3, No Spring/ Summer 2008 Duke Nursing Volume 3, No. 1 magazine 08 1938 Alumna Steps Up for Scholarships 14 Simulation Fosters Teamwork and Communication 20 Benner Delivers Harriet Cook Carter Lecture Cycled Light Research Changes Standard of Care for Preemies pg 22 Learning, Serving, and Sharing—Duke Students in Cultural Immersion pg 24 ABSN Program Turns 5—Meet 7 Young Professionals in Satisfying Nursing Careers pg 10 “We believe in higher education and what it can do for people. We established this gift annuity because of all Ann’s education did for her and the patients she served. We are so grateful to be able to help Duke in a way that also helps us.” —Preston Leake, G’54, PhD’54 Ann Leake, N’54 and Preston Leake, G’54, PhD’54 A DUKE CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITY A Sound Investment for You—a Dream Come True for Tomorrow’s Nursing Leaders With your gift of cash or stocks, Duke will establish a charitable gift annuity in your SAMPLE DUKE ANNUITY RATES name and pay you a lifetime annuity. You qualify for a charitable tax deduction Single Person and avoid capital gains taxes. Upon your passing, the remaining funds will provide AGE RATE support for the Duke School of Nursing. 65 6.0% 70 6.5% For more information please contact Joseph W. Tynan, JD, director of gift and 75 7.1% endowment planning for Duke Medicine, at [email protected] or 919-667-2506. 80 8.0% Visit us on the Web at development.mc.duke.edu Married Person AGE RATE 65/65 5.6% 70/70 5.9% 75/75 6.3% 80/80 6.9% Dean’S WELCOME Friends, In December we graduated our fifth cohort of students from the accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) degree program. Our school has returned to a fundamental historical role: preparing excellent new nurses to enter our profession. By offering this opportunity to people who have already completed another baccalaureate degree, this program is innovative yet grounded in our school’s strongest traditions. The Helene Fuld Health Trust committed $6 million, Successes such as these are dramatically elevating our a compelling sum, to this degree program. For our stature among schools of nursing. As an alumna and profession, this investment has already produced nearly member of our community, I feel great pride. 250 motivated nurses. More than half of them have gone With the strong support of our friends and alumni, on to work within the Duke University Health System, and we are able to fulfill our commitment to the profession two in 10 have sought a master’s degree. Clearly the gift through these initiatives. In turn, these accomplishments has been transformative. honor our commitment to our alumni by enhancing Having the ABSN program in the same building with the long-term value of a Duke University School of our master’s program and our new PhD program for more Nursing degree. A community collaborates to help each than a year has been wonderful. Our sense of capacity member, and it is important to me that each of you feels and community has grown, and both formal and informal a strong sense of connection and belonging in this effort, interactions and collaborations among the faculty are especially those of you who may have felt disconnected in strengthening all of our offerings. The faculty members of the past. our master’s program, along with those of the ABSN and Our school’s recent ascent in rankings and national doctoral programs, have begun to review the curricula to visibility is built upon the hard work of everyone in the better articulate program offerings. school’s history as well as our current wealth of faculty, Nurses from the Duke University Health System are staff, and student talent. Each of us owns this success. entering the master’s program to support their professional We are stronger and aspire to even greater accomplishments, activities, including the development of applications for which helps us attract ever more gifted faculty, staff, and magnet recognition at Duke Raleigh and Durham Regional students as well as additional opportunities to expand hospitals. Our PhD program welcomed a second cohort and innovate. of students, while its continuing students won funding Yet we have a great deal of work ahead. We for their research, presented their findings at national need everyone’s determination and commitment. I and regional meetings, and submitted manuscripts for enthusiastically pledge mine. 2008 publication. As 2007 ended we learned that Duke’s Board May I count on you? of Trustees enthusiastically endorsed our proposal to launch a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program. SPRING/SUMMER Catherine Lynch Gilliss, BSN’71, DNSc, RN, FAAN Dean and Professor Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs NURSING DUKE 01 10 ABSN Program: Five Years 22 Duke research sheds new 24 Cultural Immersion: and Growing Fast light on preemie care. A New Perspective on Health and Health Care Duke Nursing magazine ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 20 Harriet Cook Carter Lecture—Integrating Classroom and Spring/ Summer 2008 Clinical Learning Volume 3, No. 1 27 SON Awards & Recognitions, Publications, and Grants Duke Nursing Magazine IN EVERY ISSUE is published once a year by the Duke Nursing Alumni Association. 01 Dean’s Welcome: Catherine Lynch Gilliss Issues are available online at nursealum.duke.edu. 03 In the News: Your comments, ideas, and letters New Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree Approved to the editor are welcome. Please contact us at: Duke Nursing Breaks Into NIH Top 15 in Research Funding Duke Nursing Magazine 512 S. Mangum St., Suite 400 U.S.News Rankings Soar Durham, NC 27701-3973 Longtime Duke Hospital Nurse Appointed Assistant Dean [email protected] for Admissions Duke Nursing Colombian Physician Joins Office of Global and Community Alumni Affairs Staff Susan Glenn, Executive Director, Health Initiatives External Relations DUSON Mourns the Loss of Jody Clipp Sallie Ellinwood, Director of Development Holditch-Davis Receives First University Professorship Amelia Howle, Assistant Director, Farmer to Speak at DUSON Global Health Lecture Series Alumni Affairs and Special Events Ginger Griffin, Staff Assistant Scholarship Gift Honors 1975 Alumna Editor Hase, BSN’82, Supports International Student Travel Marty Fisher 1938 Alumna Steps Up for Scholarships Copy Editor Stefanie Conrad 0 9 New SON Faculty Appointments Contributing Writers Jim Rogalski, Bernadette Gillis, Bryan Gilmer Graphic Designers Jennifer Sweeting, Cara Ragusa Photography Duke University Photography, Sallie Ellinwood, Will McIntyre, Robert Benson Photography, James Wallace Produced by the Office of Creative Services and Marketing Communications. Copyright Duke University Health System, 2008. MCOC-5595 in the news New Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree Approved A new Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program was approved in December by the Duke University Board of Trustees. With an emphasis on putting research and scientific findings into practice to improve health care systems, the three- year program plans to enroll 20 students in fall 2008. By 2013 total enrollment of 65 students is projected. “The doctor of nursing practice program builds on our expertise, our school’s mission, and the mission of Duke Medicine,” says Barbara Turner, DNSc, RN, FAAN, professor and chair of the DNP program. “We have been inundated Duke Nursing Breaks into NIH Top 15 with emails from advanced practice nurses The Duke University School of Nursing received more than $2.8 million who comment that this is exactly the in National Institutes of Health funding for research in 2006, making it type of program that excites them about 14th in NIH funding among schools of nursing nationally. In 2005 the furthering their nursing education, with its school ranked 19th. focus on evidenced-based practice, quality “This accomplishment speaks well of the dedication and hard work and safety in practice, and health care of our faculty and my predecessor Jody Clipp,” says Diane Holditch- leadership. We look forward to the arrival Davis, BSN’73, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Marcus Hobbs Distinguished of the first class in the fall of 2008.” Professor and associate dean for research affairs. “The faculty is Nationally 59 nursing schools have continuing their scientific endeavors and I believe they will exceed this DNP programs, including several of Duke rating in the next year or two.” School of Nursing’s top-15 national peers. The data for the ranking was compiled using an NIH Web-based No nursing school in North Carolina tool that allows schools to determine the dollars awarded to any one currently offers the DNP degree. organization or department. Duke’s DNP program also will address a national need for clinical nurse leaders who will work with people from U.S.News Rankings Soar related professions to move research into clinical practice to promote innovative, In 2007 the Duke University School of Nursing jumped from 29th high-quality, and safe patient care, to 15th in U.S.News & World Report’s rankings of America’s Best 2008 says Gilliss. Graduate Schools. The last time nursing schools were ranked was 2004. In addition Duke’s DNP program will “The peer recognition that is reflected in this dramatic ascent results help ease the nation’s nursing shortage, from the efforts of many people, including our faculty and staff, our which stems in part from a shortage students, our alumni and donors, and all our other supporters,” says of nursing faculty. DNP graduates are Dean Catherine Gilliss, BSN’71, DNSc, RN, FAAN. “In these three short years we have launched the ABSN (accelerated bachelor of expected to be qualified to fill the gap and SPRING/SUMMER prepare the next generation of nurses. science in nursing) program, designed and launched the PhD program, enlarged the master’s program, erected a new building, recruited a new For more information visit dean, enlarged the faculty by 33 percent, and earned recognition among nursing.duke.edu.
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