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Anne Lynn Derouin

Anne Lynn Derouin

Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
anne.derouin@duke.edu
Box 3322 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
School of Nursing, 307 Trent Drive 3113 Pearson Building, Durham, NC 27710
Office hours By appointment- please email anne.derouin@duke.edu  

Selected Publications

Increasing Diversity in the Advanced Practice Nursing Workforce Through Partnerships With Historically Black Colleges.

Journal Article Nurse educator · March 2024 BackgroundHealth inequities have enhanced efforts to diversify the nursing workforce. Despite recruitment strategies, the percentage of Black nurse practitioners (NPs) lags in comparison with the populous.ProblemBarriers to improving work ... Full text Cite

Standing in Solidarity.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · March 2024 Full text Cite

Addressing Pediatric Toxic Stress During Initial Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Evaluations

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · February 1, 2024 Assessing for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)/toxic stress (TS) is vital to comprehensive care for pediatric patients; however, no current national guidelines for pediatric ACEs/TS screening exist. Because of the similarity in externalizing behaviors ... Full text Cite

Staff Duress Alarms for Workplace Violence in the Emergency Department: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation.

Journal Article Journal of emergency nursing · May 2023 IntroductionComplex personal duress alarms may be implemented as part of a multicomponent approach to preventing and mitigating workplace violence in emergency departments. Evaluation of duress alarms after implementation has been identified as a ... Full text Cite

An exploration of language: How nurses describe social factors that contribute to health.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · March 2023 BackgroundOver the last two centuries nurses have been practicing, teaching, and conducting research on social factors that contribute to health and the language has evolved over this time.PurposeTo explore how social factors that contrib ... Full text Cite

Improving Interprofessional Collaboration Between Behavioral Mental Health and Pediatric Primary Care Providers Through Standardized Communication.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · November 2022 IntroductionPediatric mental health crisis increases demand for integrated behavioral health and pediatric primary care providers (PPCP). Communication is key to successful integrated pediatric behavioral-mental health, but studies demonstrate gap ... Full text Cite

Evaluating the Implementation of the Online HUG Your Baby Course "Roadmap to Breastfeeding Success" for Nevada WIC Professionals.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · July 2022 Lack of knowledge on the impact of infant development and behavior on breastfeeding affects both professionals and the clients they serve. Continuing education for Nevada WIC professionals with the online HUG Your Baby course Roadmap to Breastfeeding Su ... Full text Cite

Bridging The Gap in Adolescent Depression: An Action Plan Intervention.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · May 2022 IntroductionDepression is a common diagnosis among adolescents. Routine screening for depression is recommended, yet standardization in screening and management is lacking. A care gap exists due to long wait times for referrals to counseling and o ... Full text Cite

Culturally Aligned Health Care: Implications for Patient Care and the Nursing Profession.

Journal Article Creative nursing · April 2022 Professional nurses utilize person-centered/patient-centered models of care to provide meaningful and effective healing or promotion of wellness. Using their skills, knowledge, and expertise, nurses are poised to lead quality improvement efforts that enhan ... Full text Cite

Vaping Prevention in a Middle School Population Using CATCH My Breath.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · March 2022 IntroductionThe number of teens using electronic cigarettes in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. One in 20 middle school youth currently vapes regularly (Wang et al., 2020), supporting the need for e-cigarette education and preve ... Full text Cite

Problematic internet use in adolescents and implementation of a social media hygiene protocol.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric nursing · March 2022 PurposeThis quality improvement project aimed to evaluate whether a social media hygiene education intervention designed for adolescents with problematic internet use (PIU) receiving treatment at a pediatric outpatient mental health clinic reduced ... Full text Cite

Promoting an Emergency Action Plan for Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Youth Sports During a Pandemic.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · March 2022 IntroductionPandemic-related restrictions increased the risk of delayed emergency response of bystanders to sudden cardiac arrest among youth athletes. Education and SCA emergency preparedness, implemented by nurse leaders and adapted to environme ... Full text Cite

Promoting Strategies to Increase HPV Vaccination in the Pediatric Primary Care Setting.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · March 2022 IntroductionEvaluation of a quality improvement project designed to improve HPV vaccine uptake in a pediatric primary care setting for young adolescents.MethodThree strategies were implemented in one private pediatric practice to promote ... Full text Cite

Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention to Improve Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation Processes.

Journal Article Am J Hosp Palliat Care · December 2021 BACKGROUND: A critical aspect of pediatric palliative care consultations is the assessment and documentation of patient and family needs. While these assessments usually include a focus on physical pain, there is less standardization of assessments of othe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Implementation of Photoscreening to Improve the Preschool Vision Screening Process

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · September 1, 2021 Amblyopia is the most common cause of preventable visual impairment in childhood. A quality improvement project was conducted at a pediatric primary care clinic located in North Carolina over a 3-month period with the intent of improving the preschool visi ... Full text Cite

Telehealth Educational Resources for Graduate Nurse Faculty.

Journal Article Nurse educator · September 2021 BackgroundThe rapid acceleration of virtual health care delivery, telehealth, has underlined the pressing need for graduate nursing students to gain skills and competencies that will ensure effective and efficient delivery of telehealth care in fu ... Full text Cite

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Improving Youth Sports Safety: Implementing an Emergency Action Plan for Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

Journal Article J Pediatr Nurs · 2021 BACKGROUND: Children who participate in youth sports are at risk for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) related to undetected cardiac anomalies or abrupt impact to the chest. Nurse-led interventions may prevent sudden cardiac death by helping leagues implement an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural Pediatric Primary Care.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · January 2021 Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is a pervasive issue resulting in the delay or refusal of vaccines, which are known to protect against life-threatening diseases. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to determine if early identification of VH using th ... Full text Cite

At the Front Lines: Effectively Training Community Stakeholders to Recognize and Report Child Abuse and Neglect.

Journal Article The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · June 2020 In states with universal mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect (CAN), it is essential that people who work with children and youth in a community be appropriately trained to recognize and report CAN. The primary goal of CAN training is early detec ... Full text Cite

Getting it Right: The Impact of Point-of-Care Testing for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia in the Urgent Care Setting

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · May 1, 2020 Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including Neisseria gonorrhea and Chlamydia trachomatis, have been at the forefront of public health and world health initiatives because of increasing prevalence, antimicrobial resistance trends, and immense economi ... Full text Cite

Behavior Change Counseling of Patients with Substance Use Disorders by Health Professions Students.

Journal Article Acad Psychiatry · April 2020 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this project was to create an interprofessional substance use disorders (SUDs) course that provided health professions students an opportunity to acquire and apply behavior change counseling skills for patients with SUDs with dire ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Pilot Interprofessional Course on Substance Use Disorders to Improve Students' Empathy and Counseling Skills.

Journal Article Am J Pharm Educ · April 2020 Objective. To implement and assess the effectiveness of an interprofessional course designed to provide pharmacy and nursing students with opportunities to improve their understanding of substance use disorders (SUDs), assess their attitudes toward patient ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Interprofessional Substance Use Disorder Course to Improve Students' Educational Outcomes and Patients' Treatment Decisions.

Journal Article Acad Med · November 2019 PURPOSE: Substance use is a public health concern. Health professions organizations recommend improvements in substance use disorder (SUD) education. Mezirow's transformative learning theory was used as the educational framework to develop a course that wo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pediatric Patients With Graves’ Disease: Difficult Diagnosis During Puberty

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · November 1, 2019 Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease, characterized by goiter, hyperthyroidism, and ophthalmopathy. Many symptoms resemble typical transient childhood illnesses, and providers can miss subtle clues or attribute them to adolescent developmental aging. T ... Full text Cite

The Coaching Experience of Advanced Practice Nurses in a National Leadership Program.

Journal Article Journal of continuing education in nursing · April 2019 BackgroundCoaching is a relatively new application to promote the development of leadership skills in health care and nursing. Coaching circles are a technique used in the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program to provide guidance and exp ... Full text Cite

Implementing a Parent Education Program in the Special Care Nursery.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · March 2019 BackgroundParents of preterm hospitalized infants, whose lengths of stay can range from a few days to several months, often experience emotional liability. Because the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Special Care Nursery (SCN) is a stressfu ... Full text Cite

Adolescent Infertility: A Case Report.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · March 2019 Full text Cite

Health policy engagement among graduate nursing students in the United States.

Journal Article Nursing forum · January 2019 AimThe aim was to understand how health policy education is currently being delivered in the United States' graduate nursing programs.MethodsThis exploratory cross-sectional design used an anonymous online survey to target graduate nursin ... Full text Cite

Reshaping Nursing Workforce Development by Strengthening the Leadership Skills of Advanced Practice Nurses.

Journal Article J Nurses Prof Dev · 2019 A nurse leadership program provides advanced practice nurses, many of whom have nursing professional development roles within their agencies, with a year of education, mentoring, and guidance to create and implement innovative models of care designed to im ... Full text Link to item Cite

Substance Use Education in Schools of Nursing: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Journal Article Nurse educator · May 2018 The authors systematically reviewed the nursing literature for articles describing substance use disorders (SUDs) education in schools of nursing. Five literature databases were searched, producing 3107 retrieved articles, of which 12 were included in this ... Full text Cite

Transitioning Pediatric Patients to Adult Health Care: A Quality Improvement Needs Assessment.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · May 2018 Full text Cite

Protocol for Treating Obese Pediatric Patients

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · April 1, 2018 This quality improvement project standardized screening and treatment of overweight and obese pediatric patients at a community health center and the application of a treatment algorithm. Providers demonstrated an increase in knowledge and reported increas ... Full text Cite

Fostering Reflective Future Healthcare Professionals

Journal Article Medical Science Educator · March 1, 2018 The Masters of Biomedical Science (MBS) at Duke University School of Medicine has an integrated yearlong course, Essentials for Healthcare Practice and Professional Development (EHPPD), that offers pre-health profession students written and verbal reflecti ... Full text Cite

Let's Work Together: Interprofessional Training of Health Professionals in North Carolina.

Journal Article N C Med J · 2018 Implementation of interprofessional education efforts at Duke University Health System and the University of North Carolina have enhanced teamwork, education, and mentoring for health professional learners and faculty. The IPE initiatives address the criti ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

The power of nursing: An innovative course in values clarification and self-discovery.

Journal Article Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · July 2017 Teaching for a practice is more than the dissemination of knowledge and information to the learner. Professional nursing education requires teachers to facilitate students' self-reflection and awareness and assimilation of core professional and personal va ... Full text Cite

Nurses on the Front Lines: Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Across Health Care Settings.

Journal Article The American journal of nursing · January 2017 : Nurses care for adolescents in a variety of settings, including communities, schools, and public health and acute care clinics, which affords them many opportunities to improve adolescents' sexual and reproductive health and reduce the rates of unplanned ... Full text Cite

Quick Screen to Intervene: Starting the Conversation About Pediatric Obesity

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · November 1, 2016 The prevention and management of pediatric obesity are challenges for primary care providers. Screening tools that efficiently capture nutrition and exercise behaviors enhance opportunities for targeted education. This quality improvement study reports the ... Full text Cite

An Intervention to Promote Sleep and Reduce ADHD Symptoms.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · November 2016 ObjectiveTo determine the effect of a sleep hygiene education module and prescriptive sleep routine for children ages 5 through 11 years with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).MethodsThe 20-week pilot project used a pre-/pos ... Full text Cite

Writing Across the Curriculum: Strategies to Improve the Writing Skills of Nursing Students.

Journal Article Nursing forum · October 2016 BackgroundWriting across the curriculum (WAC) is a strategy in which writing instruction occurs in classes outside of composition, literature, and other English courses. This literature review was conducted to identify and synthesize the peer-revi ... Full text Cite

Student-Faculty Lunch Program to Increase Mentoring and Facilitate Cross-Program Relationships in School of Nursing.

Journal Article Nurse educator · May 2016 Let's DU Lunch is a pilot program launched to explore the impact of a low-cost, student-faculty lunch program to increase mentoring and facilitate cross-program relationships. This program gave students the opportunity to go to lunch with a faculty member ... Full text Cite

Evaluation of a Sickle Cell Disease Educational Website for Emergency Providers.

Journal Article Advanced emergency nursing journal · April 2016 Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a complex multisystem debilitating disease. Despite its complexity, health care providers who are not SCD experts receive little formal education on SCD. An open-access, educational website, "Emergency Department Sickle Cell Di ... Full text Cite

Strategies to Address Individual Level Social Determinants of Health Designed to Cultivate the Next Generation of Minority Nurse Leaders Committed to Health Equity.

Journal Article Creative nursing · February 2016 In response to the need for increased racial and ethnic diversity in the nursing profession, the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) established the Academy for Academic and Social Enrichment for Leadership Development in Health Equity (Health Equity ... Full text Cite

Use of Workshops to Develop Nurses' and Nursing Students' Writing Skills.

Journal Article Journal of continuing education in nursing · August 2015 Workshops have been described in the literature as a strategy for preparing nurses to publish their work and develop their writing skills. Articles about the use of workshops for these purposes have not been integrated systematically. Seventeen articles we ... Full text Cite

Beginning with the end in mind: cultivating minority nurse leaders.

Journal Article Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · March 2015 In response to the need for increased racial and ethnic diversity in the nursing profession, the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) established the Making a Difference in Nursing II (MADIN II) Program. The aim of the MADIN II Program is to improve t ... Full text Cite

Systematic review of educational programs and strategies for developing students' and nurses' writing skills.

Journal Article The Journal of nursing education · January 2015 The purpose of this article is to describe the outcomes of a systematic review of educational programs and strategies for developing the writing skills of nursing students and nurses. Of 728 screened citations, 80 articles were included in the review. Writ ... Full text Cite

Increasing HPV vaccination series completion rates via text message reminders.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · July 2014 Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most frequently diagnosed sexually transmitted infection in the United States. It is associated with the development of cervical, anal-genital, and oral-pharyngeal cancers. The rate of HPV infection among adolescents and y ... Full text Cite

Screening for chlamydia: are you doing it?

Journal Article The Nurse practitioner · April 2014 This retrospective study evaluates the implications of offering routine chlamydia screenings to women ages 16 to 25 attending a primary care clinical setting. Results found that routine screenings significantly increased the number of women screened, enabl ... Full text Cite

Screening for critical congenital heart disease in newborns using pulse oximetry: evaluation of nurses' knowledge and adherence.

Journal Article Adv Neonatal Care · April 2014 PURPOSE: The purpose of this project was to evaluate the benefits of an online nursing education program addressing the significance and rationale of an evidence-based critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening protocol using pulse oximetry impleme ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effectiveness of an on-site health clinic at a self-insured university: a cost-benefit analysis.

Journal Article Workplace health & safety · April 2014 This study assessed the impact and cost-effectiveness of an on-site health clinic at a self-insured university. Health care costs and number of claims filed to primary care providers were trended before and after the clinic was established to determine sav ... Full text Cite

Nurse practitioner management of type 2 diabetes.

Journal Article The Permanente journal · January 2014 ContextMultifactorial barriers prevent primary care clinicians from helping their adult patients with type 2 diabetes achieve good control of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels. Patients' depression and low self-efficacy can complicate diabetes managem ... Full text Cite

Preparing to lead... the NCNA Leadership Academy embarks.

Journal Article Tar heel nurse · April 2012 Cite

Living on the edge: the current phenomenon of self-mutilation in adolescents.

Journal Article MCN. The American journal of maternal child nursing · April 2004 The purpose of this article is to share current knowledge about adolescent self-mutilation (SM), and to discuss treatment approaches for affected teens and young adults. One in eight American teenagers experiences depression or anxiety. The growing phenome ... Cite