Brief Bio

Dr. Hawks is the Program Director of the Duke University School of Nursing Nurse Anesthesia Specialty and has been on faculty since 2006. She has over 20 years of experience providing anesthesia care to cardiac surgical patients and over 16 years as a nurse anesthesia educator. As Duke faculty, her primary interests include the use of innovative technologies to enhance student learning in both on-campus and distance education. Her innovative use of electronic portfolios and I-Pad applications has resulted in her collaboration with the technology development industry. She has spoken extensively about creating personal learning environments that enable students to focus on their unique educational interests. She has been selected by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Board of Directors to serve as a member of the AANA Education Committee for the 2012 fiscal year. Dr. Hawks received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Radford University, Master of Science degree in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Duke University School of Nursing.

Academic Program Affiliations

Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
Master of Science in Nursing Program

Education

DNP	Duke University School of Nursing
MSN	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
BSN	Radford University

Professional Certifications

CRNA	Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

Research Interests

Research interests include:
● Utilization of personal learning networks to facilitate learning and demonstration of program and core competencies.
● Prevention and detection of delirium in the pediatric intensive care and post-surgical populations
● Utilization of electronic portfolios as assessment tools and as a method of demonstrating the attainment of competencies in nurse anesthesia students.

Clinical Interests

Dr. Hawks provides comprehensive anesthesia care for a variety of patient acuity levels undergoing all surgical procedures as a CRNA in the Duke University Medical Center.

Awards and Honors

• 2007 Selected as Participant, AANA Program Directors Workshop

• 1994 Nurse Anesthesia Program Clinical Instructor of the Year, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• 1991 Selected as Participant, AANA Writing for Publication Workshop

• 1990 Inducted, Sigma Theta Tau

Areas of Expertise

• Anesthesia
• Nursing Education

Representative Publications

• 1996 -- Hawks, S. J. Clinical aspects of nurse anesthesia practice: Monitoring and decision making Nursing Clinics of North America. 1996; 31(2); 591-605

• 2005 -- Hawks, S. J. Cardiac surgery. In Nurse Anesthesia Secrets, edited by M. Karlet 2005; Elsevier Mosby: St. Louis.

Grant Funding (selected)

• 2010-11 Nursing Fellows: Best Practices on Teaching Online Classes  
  Duke University Center for Instructional Technology
  07/2010-07/2011
  Role: CIT 2010-2011 Nursing Fellow
  Project goal: Define and develop “Best Practices” in both technology and pedagogy to be used for teaching online students and mentoring faculty about online education. Fellows will compile findings and publish an online teaching orientation guide.

• Nurse Anesthesia Program  
  Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA)
  1D09-HP07359-01-00
  07/2006-06/2009
  Role: Faculty
  The major goals of this project are to further develop the human patient simulation center through additional equipment procurement and case scenario development.