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Christina Leonard

Christina Leonard

Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
christina.leonard@duke.edu
Duke School of Nursing, Room 4229, Ipe Bldg, Durham, NC 27710
Duke School of Nursing, P.O. Box 3322, Room 4229 Ipe, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Patient Presents With Fatigue and Shortness of Breath

Journal Article The Journal for Nurse Practitioners · January 2025 Full text Cite

Impact of Nursing Clinical Elective Courses on New Graduate Nurses' Clinical Practice: A Mixed-Methods Descriptive Study.

Journal Article Nurse educator · May 2024 BackgroundClinical elective courses provide additional specialty knowledge for prelicensure nursing students; however, it is unknown how these courses impact nurses' clinical practice after graduation.PurposeTo describe how clinical nursi ... Full text Open Access Cite

Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome Caused by Short-term Steroid Use

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · May 1, 2024 Topical and oral steroids are commonly prescribed to patients of all ages for inflammatory skin conditions. Cessation of long-term topical steroid use can result in topical steroid withdrawal syndrome (TSWS), also known as red skin syndrome, but TSWS can a ... Full text Cite

Color Does Matter: Nursing Assessment of Varying Skin Tones/Pigmentation.

Journal Article Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses · December 2023 BackgroundThe observation of color is an integral part of the nursing assessment. However, the current understanding of individual skin qualities and pigmentation has not yet been integrated thoroughly into foundational assessment courses, clinica ... Full text Cite

Early Intervention for Steal Syndrome in Patients on Hemodialysis.

Journal Article Nephrology nursing journal : journal of the American Nephrology Nurses' Association · March 2023 Dialysis access-associated steal syndrome (DASS) is a serious, challenging complication related to diminished arterial blood flow to the hand. Patients may not be routinely assessed for this diagnosis, resulting in a delayed presentation with severe hand p ... Full text Cite

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Chinese and American Pediatric Nursing Students.

Journal Article Clinical simulation in nursing · October 2022 During the COVID-19 pandemic, students from two schools of nursing, in China and the United States respectively, engaged in a transcultural simulation activity to explore how a global healthcare crisis has been managed within their different cultures. This ... Full text Cite

Nursing Students From China and the United States: Learning Together Through Virtual Simulation.

Journal Article Nursing education perspectives · May 2022 AimThe purpose of this project was to connect nursing students from schools of nursing in China and the United States for colearning using virtual simulations.BackgroundWith technology and international partnerships, nursing programs can ... Full text Cite

Increasing Home Healthcare Referrals and Access to Community Resources in Response to High Emergency Department Utilization.

Journal Article Home healthcare now · May 2021 The goal of this interprofessional quality initiative project was to decrease emergency department (ED) visits for nonemergency health problems by referring superutilizers to home healthcare or connecting them with existing community resources. An interpro ... Full text Cite

Bringing the R Back to SBAR: A Focused Heart Failure SBAR Tool

Journal Article Home Health Care Management & Practice · August 2019 This article describes a quality improvement (QI) project implemented in a home health setting among a population of patients with heart failure (HF). It was discovered there was a lack of nurse-led recommendations and ineffective use of the situa ... Full text Cite

Hotspotting

Journal Article Nurse Educator · September 2018 The purpose of this article is to describe a service learning opportunity where interprofessional teams of students worked together to address patients’ social determinants of health through home visits. This article describes this process, known a ... Full text Cite

The Impact of Caring: Teaching Students Empathy through the Patient Voice

Journal Article Creative Nursing · February 2018 The purpose of this educational brief is to describe an innovative learning experience focused on teaching students empathy for chronic illness, using patient voices. Panel members of individuals who had experienced acute and chronic illness from ... Full text Cite