Allen Cadavero

Dr. Allen Cadavero serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Advanced Nursing Scholarship and Practice at the Duke University School of Nursing. He primarily teaches in the prelicensure program while maintaining an active clinical role with the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence (WOC) nursing team at Duke University Health System.

Dr. Cadavero earned his BSN from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, MSN from Duke University, and Ph.D. from Villanova University. With more than 36 years of clinical experience, his practice spans adult health, critical care, home health, and wound, ostomy, and continence nursing.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing · 2019 - Present School of Nursing

Recent Publications

A Transition to Practice Intervention to Improve Retention

Journal Article Nurse Leader · August 1, 2025 Over one-half of all registered nurse turnover is generated by those within their first 2 years of practice. Common strategies to retain new graduate nurses are ineffective and our baseline study found 3 themes that contributed to this turnover: disrupted ... Full text Cite

Interventions addressing systemic racism in the US: A scoping review.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · December 2024 Previous studies have reported on the health impact of systemic racism among historically oppressed populations. In fact, there is an emerging body of literature, including systematic reviews, which describe the negative health consequences of systemic rac ... Full text Cite

Perceptions of New Graduate Nurses’ Transition to Practice Post-Pandemic

Journal Article Nurse Leader · June 1, 2024 Registered nurse turnover is a challenge facing nurse leaders across the country with almost one-third of nursing turnover occurring in the first year of practice. Therefore, support during transition to practice is critical for new graduate nurses. The CO ... Full text Cite

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Education, Training & Certifications

Villanova University · 2018 Ph.D.

Duke University · 2009 M.S.N.

University of North Carolina, Greensboro · 1990 B.S.N.