Jennifer DeVries: Her eye stays on the target

posted June 11th, 2009

Jennifer DeVries, RN, MSN, CNS, NNP, Advanced Clinical Practice, received the overall Strength, Hope and Caring Leadership Award at DUH.

Jennifer created a program in the Duke Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) called "Keep Your Eye on the Target" to reduce cases of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a preventable form of blindness. Her nominator wrote: “As a result (of the program), the Duke ICN has the lowest ROP rate in the network, and her program is now a model for many ICNs across the country.”