QSEN Profile - Carol F. Durham

Carol F. Durham, MSN, RN

Clinical Professor and  Director, Clinical Education & Resource Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing
Chapel Hill, NC

Program Experience

BSN, ABSN, Graduate

QSEN Expertise

My expertise involves curricular innovations around the use of simulation and lab teaching learning activities. I also am gifted in faculty development in simulation, the QSEN competencies and integrating concepts into the curriculum.

Competency Expertise

Patient-centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence-based  Practice, Safety

Teaching Expertise

Skills/Simulation Labs

Research Expertise

My research has been with a team of inter professional colleagues as we evaluate the use of simulation to build teamwork and collaboration using the TeamSTEPPS curriculum. The inter professional teams have consisted of nursing and medicine and nursing, medicine and pharmacy.

Publications and Presentations

Durham, C. F. & Alden, K. R. (in press).  Enhancing patient safety in nursing education: Use of human patient simulation as an instructional strategy. In Caputi, L. (Ed.), Teaching Nursing: The Art and Science (2nd Edition).

Durham, C. F. & Alden, K. R. (2008).  Chapter 50 Enhancing patient safety in nursing education: Use of human patient simulation as an instructional strategy. In Hughes RG, (Ed.),  Patient Safety and Quality: An evidence-based handbook for nurses.  AHRQ Publication.  Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.


Durham, C. F. (2006). Medication Administration (pp. 8-1 – 8-69).  In G. Mazzocco, J. Roth, J., & R. Dillon (Eds.), Medical-Surgical Nursing Review. Chapel Hill, NC: University of  North Carolina-Chapel Hill.


Durham, C. F. & Sherwood, G. (2008). Educational approaches to bridge the quality gap. Journal of Urologic Nursing. Special topic Issue on Quality. (Invited)

Palmer, M., Kowlowitz, V., Campbell, J., Carr, C., Dillon, R., Durham, C., Gainer, L., Jenkins, J., Page, J. & Rasin, J. (2008). Using Clinical Simulations in Geriatric Nursing Continuing Education. Nursing Outlook.2008 Jul-Aug; 56(4):159-66.

Durham, C. F. (in press). Medication Administration.  In G. Mazzocco, J. Roth, J., & R. Dillon (Eds.), Medical-Surgical Nursing Review online. Chapel Hill, NC: University of  North Carolina-Chapel Hill.


Gainer, L. A. & Durham, C. F. (in press). Patient and Nurse Safety.  In G. Mazzocco, J. Roth, J., & R. Dillon (Eds.), Medical-Surgical Nursing Review online. Chapel Hill, NC: University of  North Carolina-Chapel Hill.


Durham, C. F. (2008). Integrating Concepts into Simulations  Online course, Simulation Innovation Resource Center, National League for Nursing. http://sirc.nln.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=103


Durham, C. F. & Smith E. L. (April 7, 2008) The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Project: Implications for Nursing Faculty. 5th Annual North Carolina Board of Nursing Education Summit, April 7, 2008, Chapel Hill, NC.


Durham, C. F. (May 18-20, 2009). Integrating Quality and Safety (QSEN) Content into Skills and Simulation Curricula. Midwest Nurse Educator’s Academy, Alerus Center, Grand Forks, North Dakota.


 Durham, C. F.  (April 21-22, 2009).  Faculty Development around Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN): Integration into Simulation. University of Nebraska (Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney, Scottsbluff).


Durham, C. F. (October 17, 2008). Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN): Integration into Simulation. Clinical Simulation: The Future of Nursing Practice and Education! 2008 Fall Conference Massachusetts Association Registered Nurses (MARN), October 17, 2008 Randolph, MA.


Durham, C. F. (October 17, 2008).Geriatric Simulation: Moving Education to Practice. Clinical Simulation: The Future of Nursing Practice and Education! Fall Conference, Massachusetts Association Registered Nurses (MARN), October, 2008 Randolph, MA.


Durham, C. F. (October 17, 2008). Simulation in Nursing:  The Past, Present, and Frontier - Panel Discussant. Clinical Simulation: The Future of Nursing Practice and Education! 2008 Fall Conference Massachusetts Association Registered Nurses (MARN), October 17, 2008 Randolph, MA.


Durham, C. F.  (June 23-25, 2008) When things go wrong. QSEN Collaborative Conference.  June 23-25, 2008, Charlotte, NC.

Durham, C. F. (May 19-20, 2008) Faculty Development QSEN Competencies. Saint John’s College of Nursing, May 19-20, 2008. Springfield, MO,

Durham, C. F.  (February 28-March 1, 2008) Simulation: Getting Started. National League for Nursing Faculty Development Workshop, February 28-March 1, 2008. Chapel Hill, NC


Durham, C. F. (March 17-18, 2004). David Jowers Lecture 2004:  Patient simulation in nursing education: Past, present and future.  A keynote address and simulation workshops for the faculty, staff, students, and community at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, March, 2004, Atlanta, GA.


Sherwood, G., Day, L., Ironside, P. & Durham, C. F. (September 26-29, 2007). Symposium - Innovative Strategies for Teaching Quality and Safety in Pre-licensure Nursing Education Programs, NLN Summit, September 28, 2007, Phoenix, AZ.


Smith, E. L. & Durham, C. F. (July 26-29, 2007). Helping dreams become a reality: The Quality & Safety in Nursing Education (QSEN) Grant Project. Pre-Conference Workshop 2007 Convention, National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO) We Have a Dream: Envisioning the Future of Staff Development, July, 2007, Atlanta, GA.


Durham, C.F. & Allen, L.K. (July 27, 2006). Using technology to enhance learning: innovative gerontology simulations for staff development. National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO) Convention, July, 2006, Orlando, FL.


Durham, C. F., Palmer, M., & Rasin, J. (October 19-21, 2005). Using simulation to improve the nursing care of the racially and ethnically complex elder.  Paper presentation at the North Carolina Conference on Aging (NCCOA), New Bern Riverfront Convention Center and the Sheraton Grand Hotel. October, 2005, New Bern, NC.


Durham, C. F.  (November 19-23, 2004). Using Clinical Simulations in Gerontological Nursing Continuing Education. Palmer, M. (PI) and Wyman, J. discussant.  57th The Gerontological Society of America.  Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, November, 2004, Washington, DC.


Durham, C. F. (April 2-3, 2009). Geriatric Simulations. Connecting the Dots: Geriatric Nursing, Education, and Clinical Simulation. April 2009, Durham, NC.

Menzel, N. & Durham, C. F.  (March 10-14, 2008). Safe Patient Handling Curriculum Module in Schools of Nursing in the USA:  Content and Process. 8th Annual Safe Patient Handling and Movement Conference, March, 2008, Lake Buena Vista, FL.


Durham, C. F. & Gainer, L. A. (March 12-16, 2007). Changing nursing education: Safe patient handling and movement. 2007 Safe Patient Handling and Movement Conference, March, 2007, Lake Buena Vista, FL.


Durham, C. F. (June 12-14, 2008). Integrating quality and safety content into skills and simulation curricula. 12th International Nursing Learning Resource Canters Conference, June, 2008, San Jose, CA.


Durham, C. F., Day, L. & Smith, E. L. (November 2-7, 2007). Integrating quality and safety content into nursing curricula and clinical practica. Sigma Theta Tau International Vision to Action: Global Health through Collaboration, November, 2007, Baltimore, MD


Palmer, M., Durham, C. F., Angel, B. & Kowlowitz, V. (November 19-23, 2004). Improving the care of acutely ill elders.  The 57th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America,     November, 2004, Washington, DC.


Durham, C. F. & Alden, K. R. (March 2-5, 2004). Critical care obstetrical simulation exercise: Application and integration into baccalaureate nursing education. Human Patient Simulator Networking Conference 2004 - HPSN 2004, March, 2004, Tampa, FL.

Related Funding

Welch, Polly, (PI), Defriese, Gordon, Durham, C. F. (Simulation specialist). Enhancing the skills of Nursing Practice in NC Long-Term Care Facilities.  FutureCare of North Carolina 2008-2010

(PI Nursing) Simulations for Inter-Disciplinary Education (SIDE).  (David Hollar, PhD, Medicine Principal Investigator; Kelly Scolaro, PharmD, Pharmacy, Principal Investigator) 2008-2010.

(PI) Comparison of CPR Skill Acquisition and Retention among BSN Students Who Learned CPR through Traditional Versus Independent Study Courses, 2008.

(Steering Committee, Nursing Simulation Faculty; Project Team) Measuring the Teaching Methods for Interdisciplinary Team Training. GlaxoSmithKline to University of North Carolina and Duke University Schools of Nursing and Medicine. (Roper, PI).  January 2006-December 2008. $65,000 Planning Phase; $180, 000 UNC Project funds.

 (Consultant, Core Faculty) Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Phase II. 2005 Robert Wood Jonson Foundation. (Cronenwett, L. Principal Investigator). April 2007 - October 2008, $1.094,000.

(Consultant, Simulation Faculty) Improving the Care of Acutely Ill Elders. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). (Palmer, M. H. Principal Investigator) Grant # D62HPO1913. July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2009, $579,230.