Brief Bio

Terry Ward joined the faculty of the Duke ABSN program in 2009. She came to Duke from Durham's Watts School of Nursing, where she served as clinical nurse educator, curriculum coordinator, and interim director of nursing education, and received numerous awards for teaching excellence.

Dr. Ward holds BSN and MSN degrees from the University of Mobile (AL), and earned her PhD in 2008 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While pursuing her doctorate, she was supported by the 2007 North Carolina Nurse Scholars Award and a Triangle North Carolina Nurses Association Scholarship.

Dr. Ward's clinical experience includes home health nursing of medical and surgical patients and service as a nurse manager in orthopedics and oncology. She also has been a clinical nurse instructor in surgery, on psychiatry and medical surgical nursing units. She is a member of the Southern Nursing Research Society, the North Carolina Nurses Association, the National League for Nursing (NLN), and the American Nurses Association. She is a program evaluator for the NLN Accreditation Commission, and was a North Carolina NLN executive board member from 2003–05.

Dr. Ward's research interests include qualitative research in psychiatric/mental health nursing and nursing education. In 2009 she presented “Life is Hard: The Lived Experience of Adults with Bipolar Disorder and Comorbid Substance Use Disorder” at the 10th Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference and 15th Qualitative Health Research Conference in Vancouver and at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Southern Nursing Research Society.

Academic Program Affiliations

Education

Research Interests

Awards and Honors

• 2012 Teaching Fellowship Award, DUSON Institute of Educational Excellence

• 2007 North Carolina Nurse Scholars Award

• 2007 Triangle North Carolina Nurses Association Scholarship

• 2006 Honorable Mention Triangle Business Journal Healthcare Hero

• 2006 Lois Cox Teaching Excellence Award (Fall and Spring), Watts School of Nursing

• 2006 Nurse Educator of Tomorrow Fellowship

• 2005 Mary Lewis Wyche Fellowship, North Carolina Nurses Association

• 2004 Lois Cox Teaching Excellence Award (Spring), Watts School of Nursing

• 2003 Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina Award

• 2003 Lois Cox Teaching Excellence Award (Fall), Watts School of Nursing

• 2002 Lois Cox Teaching Excellence Award (Fall), Watts School of Nursing

• 2000 Lois Cox Teaching Excellence Award (Fall), Watts School of Nursing

• 1997 Service Award Most Valuable Player, Durham Regional Hospital

Areas of Expertise

• Nursing Education
• Psychiatric / Behavioral Health

Areas of Interest

• Preparation of students for NCLEX testing

Representative Publications

• 2011 -- Pubmed # 21208049 Ward, T. D. The lived experience of adults with bipolar disorder and comorbid substance use disorder. Issues Ment Health Nurs. January, 2011; 32(1); 20-7

• 2008 -- Ward, T. D. Enhancing student comfort in psychiatric clinical settings. Teaching and Learning in Nursing. April, 2008; 3(2); 53-55

Grant Funding (selected)

• Making a Difference in Nursing II  
  Health Resources and Service Administration
  1D19-HP19020-01-00
  07/2010-06/2013
  Role: Team member
  Project Goal: To increase the number of high achieving/high potential under-represented minorities in nursing for enrollment in the School of Nursing.

• Expanding Clinical Capacity Through the Shared Use of Human Patient Simulators  
  NC AHEC
  08/2008-07/2009
  Role: Grant writer
  Project Goal: Utilization of a shared resource model to increase student utilization of human patient simulators