Margaret Therese Bowers | Scholars@Duke

Margaret Therese Bowers
Associate Professor in the School of Nursing

Margaret (Midge) Bowers is an Assistant Program Director in the Master's Program and Lead Faculty of the Cardiovascular specialty in the School of Nursing. She is an Associate in the American College of Cardiology, Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and has over 35 years of experience in cardiac patient care. She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Medicine as a Nurse Practitioner in Cardiovascular Medicine and consultant faculty at the School of Medicine.

Office Hours

Available by appointment

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2015

Contact Information

Box 3322 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
School of Nursing, Room 2033, Durham, NC 27710
margaret.bowers@duke.edu (919) 681-3244
Nurse Practitioner in Cardiology

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- D.N.P., University of Colorado at Denver 2012
- M.S.N., Duke University 1990
Medical Licensure
- Nurse Practitioner. North Carolina. 2018
- Registered Nurse. North Carolina. 2018
Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2004 - 2015
- Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 1999 - 2004
- Clinical Associate in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 1994 - 1999
Recognition
In the News
- SEP 23, 2015
  
  Nursing Professor Leads Effort to Speed Care for Heart Failure Patients
Awards & Honors
- Clinical Faculty Practice Excellence. Duke University School of Nursing. May 12, 2017
- Distinguished Teaching Award. Duke University School of Nursing. 2009
Expertise
Subject Headings
Research
Selected Grants
- Advanced Nursing Education Program awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration 2013 - 2017
- Enhanced Geriatric Content for Family Nurse Practitioners awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration 2010 - 2013
- Tools for Economic Analysis of Patient Management Interventions in Heart Failure awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2013
- Creating a National Model for Nurse Educator Preparation at the Master's Level awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration 2009 - 2012
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Bowers, MT. "Chronic Heart Failure: Impact of the Current Guidelines." Journal for Nurse Practitioners 15, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 125-131.e2. Full Text
  - DeWald, T, Granger, B, and Bowers, M. "Making Sense of Hypertension Guidelines." Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 33, no. 5 (September 1, 2018): 413-419. (Review) Full Text
  - Granger, BB, Locke, SC, Bowers, M, Sawyer, T, Shang, H, Abernethy, AP, Bloomfield, RA, and Gilliss, CL. "The Digital Drag and Drop Pillbox: Design and Feasibility of a Skill-based Education Model to Improve Medication Management." The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 32, no. 5 (September 2017): E14-E20. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Cournoyer, JM, Garms, AP, Thiessen, KN, Bowers, MT, Johnson, MD, and Relf, MV. "Cardiovascular Disease and HIV: Pathophysiology, Treatment Considerations, and Nursing Implications." Critical care nurse 36, no. 5 (October 2016): 37-46. (Review) Full Text
  - Sawyer, T, Nelson, MJ, McKee, V, Bowers, MT, Meggitt, C, Baxt, SK, Washington, D, Saladino, L, Lehman, EP, Brewer, C, Locke, SC, Abernethy, A, Gilliss, CL, and Granger, BB. "Implementing Electronic Tablet-Based Education of Acute Care Patients." Critical care nurse 36, no. 1 (February 2016): 60-70. Full Text
  - Hendrix, CC, Pereira, K, Bowers, M, Brown, J, Eisbach, S, Briggs, ME, Fitzgerald, K, Matters, L, Luddy, C, and Braxton, L. "Integrating Mental Health Concepts in the Care of Adults With Chronic Illnesses: A Curricular Enhancement." The Journal of nursing education 54, no. 11 (November 2015): 645-649. Full Text
  - Reed, SD, Neilson, MP, Gardner, M, Li, Y, Briggs, AH, Polsky, DE, Graham, FL, Bowers, MT, Paul, SC, Granger, BB, Schulman, KA, Whellan, DJ, Riegel, B, and Levy, WC. "Tools for Economic Analysis of Patient Management Interventions in Heart Failure Cost-Effectiveness Model: A Web-based program designed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of disease management programs in heart failure." American heart journal 170, no. 5 (November 2015): 951-960. Full Text
  - Bowers, MT. "Cardiovascular Health Among an Underserved Population: Clinical Implications." The Nursing clinics of North America 50, no. 3 (September 2015): 457-464. (Review) Full Text
  - Carpenter, JE, Short, N, Williams, TE, Yandell, B, and Bowers, MT. "Improving Congestive Heart Failure Care with a Clinical Decision Unit." Nursing economic$ 33, no. 5 (September 2015): 255-262.
  - Granger, BB, Ekman, I, Hernandez, AF, Sawyer, T, Bowers, MT, DeWald, TA, Zhao, Y, Levy, J, and Bosworth, HB. "Results of the Chronic Heart Failure Intervention to Improve MEdication Adherence study: A randomized intervention in high-risk patients." American heart journal 169, no. 4 (April 2015): 539-548. Full Text
  - Granger, BB, Ekman, I, Hernandez, AF, Sawyer, T, Bowers, MT, Dewald, TA, Zhao, Y, Levy, J, and Bosworth, HB. "Results of the chronic heart failure intervention to improve medication adherence study: A randomized intervention in high-risk patients." American Heart Journal 169, no. 4 (January 1, 2015): 539-548. Full Text
  - Bowers, MT. "Managing Patients With Heart Failure." The Journal for Nurse Practitioners 9, no. 10 (November 2013): 634-642. Full Text
  - Reed, SD, Li, Y, Kamble, S, Polsky, D, Graham, FL, Bowers, MT, Samsa, GP, Paul, S, Schulman, KA, Whellan, DJ, and Riegel, BJ. "Introduction of the Tools for Economic Analysis of Patient Management Interventions in Heart Failure Costing Tool: a user-friendly spreadsheet program to estimate costs of providing patient-centered interventions." Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 5, no. 1 (January 2012): 113-119. Full Text
  - Holt, JE, Flint, EP, and Bowers, MT. "Got the picture? Using mobile phone technology to reinforce discharge instructions." Am J Nurs 111, no. 8 (August 2011): 47-51. Full Text Link to Item
  - Shah, MR, Califf, RM, Nohria, A, Bhapkar, M, Bowers, M, Mancini, DM, Fiuzat, M, Stevenson, LW, and O'Connor, CM. "The STARBRITE trial: a randomized, pilot study of B-type natriuretic peptide-guided therapy in patients with advanced heart failure." Journal of Cardiac Failure 17, no. 8 (August 2011): 613-621. Full Text
  - Sherwood, A, O'Connor, CM, Routledge, FS, Hinderliter, AL, Watkins, LL, Babyak, MA, Koch, GG, Adams, KF, Dupree, CS, Chang, PP, Hoffman, BM, Johnson, J, Bowers, M, Johnson, KS, and Blumenthal, JA. "Coping effectively with heart failure (COPE-HF): design and rationale of a telephone-based coping skills intervention." Journal of Cardiac Failure 17, no. 3 (March 2011): 201-207. Full Text
  - Sherwood, A, Blumenthal, JA, Hinderliter, AL, Koch, GG, Adams, KF, Dupree, CS, Bensimhon, DR, Johnson, KS, Trivedi, R, Bowers, M, Christenson, RH, and O'Connor, CM. "Worsening depressive symptoms are associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure." J Am Coll Cardiol 57, no. 4 (January 25, 2011): 418-423. Full Text Link to Item
  - Blood-Siegfried, J, Bowers, MT, and Lorimer, M. "Is shock a key element in the pathology of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?." Biol Res Nurs 11, no. 2 (October 2009): 187-194. Full Text Link to Item
  - Allen, LA, Yager, JE, Funk, MJ, Levy, WC, Tulsky, JA, Bowers, MT, Dodson, GC, O'Connor, CM, and Felker, GM. "Discordance between patient-predicted and model-predicted life expectancy among ambulatory patients with heart failure." JAMA 299, no. 21 (June 4, 2008): 2533-2542. Full Text Link to Item
  - Shah, MR, Whellan, DJ, Peterson, ED, Nohria, A, Hasselblad, V, Xue, Z, Bowers, MT, O'Connor, CM, Califf, RM, and Stevenson, LW. "Delivering heart failure disease management in 3 tertiary care centers: key clinical components and venues of care." American Heart Journal 155, no. 4 (April 2008): 764.e1-764.e5. Full Text
  - Shah, MR, Claise, KA, Bowers, MT, Bhapkar, M, Little, J, Nohria, A, Gaulden, LH, McKee, VK, Cozart, KL, Mancinelli, KL, Daniels, H, Kinard, T, Stevenson, LW, Mancini, DM, O'Connor, CM, and Califf, RM. "Testing new targets of therapy in advanced heart failure: the design and rationale of the Strategies for Tailoring Advanced Heart Failure Regimens in the Outpatient Setting: BRain NatrIuretic Peptide Versus the Clinical CongesTion ScorE (STARBRITE) trial." American Heart Journal 150, no. 5 (November 2005): 893-898. Full Text
  - Champagne, MT, Hewitt, D, Short, N, Pietrangelo-Brown, S, Epstein, S, and Bowers, M. "Access to opportunity: The Duke-east Carolina partnerships for training program." Journal of Asynchronous Learning Network 6, no. 2 (August 1, 2002). (Review)
  - DeWald, T, Gaulden, L, Beyler, M, Whellan, D, and Bowers, M. "Current trends in the management of heart failure." Nursing Clinics of North America 35, no. 4 (2000): 855-875.
- Conference Papers
  - Allen, LA, Yager, JE, Tulsky, JA, Bowers, MT, Dodson, GC, Levy, WC, Funk, MJ, O'Connor, CM, and Felker, GM. "Discordance between patient-predicted and model-predicted life expectancy among outpatient heart failure patients." March 11, 2008. Link to Item
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Medical Licensure

Duke Appointment History

In the News

Awards & Honors

Subject Headings

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Conference Papers

Recent Courses