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Toles and Wooden receive awards for doctoral work from the School of Nursing
posted May 16th, 2011At the Duke University School of Nursing annual awards ceremony on May 11, 2011, two of the School’s doctoral students were honored for their exemplary work.
Mark Toles received the Distinguished Dissertation Award for “Transitional Care in a Nursing Home.” This award is given to a graduating PhD student for innovative and significant research that demonstrates methodological and substantive quality. Toles earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas, a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Columbia University, a master’s degree in nursing within the family nurse practitioner specialty, and a psychiatric and mental health clinical nurse specialist post-master’s certificate from the University of Hawaii.
Steve Wooden received the Outstanding Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Capstone Project Award for “Exploration of Specialty Certification for Nurse Anesthetists: Nonsurgical Pain Management as a Test Case.” The award is given to the graduating DNP student whose project best describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a practice change that addresses a significant health care problem in an organization and holds potential for adoption by other agencies. Wooden received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in Nashville, Tennessee, and a master’s degree in nurse anesthesia from the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.