Dr. DeVane-Johnson joined Duke University School of Nursing on November 1, 2017. She teaches in the ABSN program. Dr. DeVane-Johnson is known to faculty and students in our ABSN program where as a Consulting Associate she was engaged with the maternity courses and served as a mentor for ABSN and Health Equity Academy students. Having taught maternity courses at UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University, Dr. DeVane-Johnson brings a wealth of evidenced based knowledge and enthusiasm to the classroom. She has 20 years’ experience as a full scope Certified Nurse Midwife working in private practice and academic institutions, providing care for women from all ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Dr. DeVane-Johnson maintains her clinical practice by working part time in a private OB/GYN office in Greensboro, N.C. She received her BSN from UNC – Charlotte, her MSN and Certification in Nurse-Midwifery from Vanderbilt University, and she earned her PhD in Nursing from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2016. While pursuing her PhD she received several scholarships and awards including a National League of Nursing Foundation Scholarship as well as a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Dissertation award. She is a fellow of the University of Pennsylvania Research Institute. Her professional passions include women’s health, maternal/child health and decreasing health disparities in the African-American community, more specifically, the impact of cultural and socio-historical influences on infant feeding decisions in the African American community. In addition, she is on the Board of Directors for “Pathway 2 Breastfeeding”, a community initiative that works to combat health disparities in the African-American community by providing breastfeeding education and support.
PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
MSN | Vanderbilt University |
BSN | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
2017 -- DeVane-Johnson, S., Woods-Giscombé, C., Thoyre, S., Fogel, C., & Williams, R Integrative literature review of factors related to breastfeeding in African American women: Evidence for a potential paradigm shift Journal of Human Lactation. 2017; 33(2); 435-447
2016 -- Metzger, M., Song, MK., DeVane-Johnson, S LVAD Patients and Their Surrogates” Perspectives on Participating in an Advance Care Planning Intervention The Journal of Acute and Critical Care. 2016; 45(4); 305-310
2016 -- Woods Giscombe, C., Robinson, M.N., Carthon, D., DeVane-Johnson, S., Corbie-Smith, G Superwoman Schema, Stigma, Spirituality, and (Culturally) Sensitive Providers: Factors Influencing Mental Health Service Utilization in African American women Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity. 2016; 9(1); 1124
Shifting the gaze of Breastfeeding
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
05/2015-11/2015
Project Goal: To describe the African American breastfeeding Culture
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Summer 2011 | Vol. 7 No. 2
Pushing the Boundaries