Dr. Kathleen Ashton joined the Duke University School of Nursing faculty in February 2013, and will be teaching in the ABSN Program adult health courses. She has been a registered nurse for 32 years, and has extensive experience as a provider of care to adult populations in acute care settings. Before coming to DUSON, she was a staff nurse and unit educator in the Duke Hospital Emergency Department, Coordinator of the Duke University Health Services Nursing Residency Program™ at Duke Hospital, and a staff nurse in Duke Hospital Peri-operative Services. She also served as a preceptor for newly licensed nurses and experienced nurses.
Dr. Ashton received a baccalaureate degree in nursing science from Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She earned a Master’s degree in nursing education at Duke in 2009, and completed her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in December 2012. Dr. Ashton’s dissertation focused on the adaptation of new registered nurses, and her current research interests include the provision of support to new nurses through evidence-based interventions.
PhD | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
MSN | Duke University School of Nursing |
BSN | Wilkes College |
2015 Outstanding ABSN Faculty Award, Duke University School of Nursing
2013 Selected Participant, Class of 2013, North Carolina Nurses’ Association Leadership Academy -
2013 Mary Hanna Memorial Journalism Award (1st place, clinical category), for for article “Nursing care of patients undergoing isolated limb procedures for recurrent melanoma of the extremity”), American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN)
2011 Nurse Educator of Tomorrow Scholarship
2010 Nurse Educator of Tomorrow Scholarship
2007 Inducted, Sigma Theta Tau International
2015 -- Pubmed # 25805387 Ashton, K. S. The orientation period: essential for new registered nurses' adaptation. Nurs Sci Q. April, 2015; 28(2); 142-50
2015 -- Pubmed # 25608091 Ashton, K. S. New registered nurses' personal responses to professional practice: a pilot study. J Nurses Prof Dev. Jan-Feb, 2015; 31(1); 9-14
2014 -- Pubmed # 24802599 Ashton, K., Oermann, M. H. Patient education in home care: strategies for success. Home Healthc Nurse. May, 2014; 32(5); 288-94
2012 -- Pubmed # 22443922 Ashton, K. S. Nursing care of patients undergoing isolated limb procedures for recurrent melanoma of the extremity. J Perianesth Nurs. April, 2012; 27(2); 94-109
2012 -- Pubmed # 22263552 Ashton, K. S. Nurse educators and the future of nursing. J Contin Educ Nurs. March 1, 2012; 43(3); 113-6
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Summer 2011 | Vol. 7 No. 2
Pushing the Boundaries