Durham is a professor and Director of the Education-Innovation-Simulation Learning Environment (EISLE) for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing.
He died in the VA hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Durham was inspired by the nurses who provided care to her father.
Durham attended Hoke County High School in Raeford, North Carolina, where she graduated in 1972.
[1] Following graduation, Durham worked as a staff nurse at CJ Harris Hospital in Sylva, North Carolina.
Durham moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where she worked as a coronary care unit nurse at Rex Hospital.
[1] Following her graduation in 1982, Durham began as an instructor in the UNC School of Nursing while working in cardiac rehabilitation and patient educator at the non-profit Orange Cardiovascular Foundation.
[9] In 2016, Durham's team continued their interprofessional work with North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
[13] Surviving this critical event sparked Durham's desire to raise awareness of septic shock and how it is treated.
[14] BioMérieux opened a plant in the Research Triangle Park that will focus on production of bottled sepsis blood cultures in 2017.
[19][20] Durham is also a member of the Simulation Innovation and Resource Center (SIRC) project headed by the NLN.
In 2017, Durham received the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Presidential Citation at their annual scientific meeting for her continued efforts in the field.