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Bradi Bartrug Granger

Research Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
Box 3322 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
307 Trent Drive, DUMC Box 3322, Durham, NC 27710

Overview


Dr. Bradi Granger is a Research Professor at Duke University School of Nursing, Director of the Duke Heart Center Nursing Research Program, and adjunct faculty at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also a core faculty at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Dr. Granger received her doctorate in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her MSN from Duke University, and her BSN from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Dr. Granger has extensive clinical experience in cardiovascular nursing, and her clinical work as a Clinical Nurse Specialist has been dedicated to overcoming barriers to the use and conduct of research in the service setting through the development of pragmatic tools that change the way nurses learn about, apply, and conduct nursing science. She has developed an innovative model for clinical inquiry and research in the hospital setting, which has been adopted in clinical settings across the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Granger is an active member of the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the American Heart Association, and the European Society for Patient Adherence, Compliance, and Persistence. 

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Research Professor in the School of Nursing · 2025 - Present School of Nursing
Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society · 2018 - Present Duke Science & Society, University Initiatives & Academic Support Units
Core Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy · 2024 - Present Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, University Institutes and Centers

Recent Scholarly Works


Building Our Finance Muscle: A Hybrid Educational Intervention to Improve Nurse Leaders’ Competence and Confidence in the Boardroom

Journal article Nurse Leader · June 1, 2026 To describe the outcomes of an education series on the self-reported financial acumen of nurse leaders. Nurse leaders are pivotal to an organization's financial success. However, opportunities for education are often inaccessible. As nurse leaders’ experie ... Full text Cite

Implementation of a Digital Patient Activation Tool to Engage Patients With Heart Failure in Intensification of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapies.

Journal article Comput Inform Nurs · June 1, 2026 Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction treatment with quadruple therapy reduces hospitalizations and improves patient survival. Despite evidence-based recommendations to initiate and up-titrate guideline-directed medical therapy to target doses, a ga ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rhythms of Recovery: Patient-Centered Virtual Reality Exergame for Physical Rehabilitation in the Intensive Care Unit.

Journal article IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics · May 2026 Early mobilization is a structured protocol designed to facilitate motor recovery in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with ICU-acquired weakness. This process is typically implemented by an interdisciplinary team of nurses, physical therapists, and other ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Nurse LEADS: Training in Nurse-LEd models of care ADdressing the Social Determinants of Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Nursing Research · 2024 - 2029

Nurse LEADS: Training in Nurse-LEd models of care ADdressing the Social Determinants of Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Nursing Research · 2024 - 2029

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Education


University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · 2004 Ph.D.
Duke University · 1991 M.S.N.