AAMN Recognition

AAMN Speaker Series Events

• Dore to Door’ Alumni Speaker Series included participation as panel consultants and speakers covering various topics.
• These sessions included VUSN faculty, staff, and alumni serving as panel consultants and content experts. 

Links to Past Sessions

• Perception vs. Reality: Is it Time to Rebrand Nursing? (May 12, 2021)
• Perception vs. Reality: Is it Time to Rebrand Nursing? (May 10, 2021)
• Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus: Stories from the Top (Apr. 28, 2021)
• The Evolving Role of Nursing in Transgender Care (Mar. 18, 2021)
• Mental Health and Black America Today: Where Are We? (Mar. 1, 2021)
• Kids and Navigating the Pandemic: A Lesson in Resilience (Jan. 28, 2021)
• Compassion Fatigue during COVID-19: How Nurses and NPs Can Stay Grounded (Nov. 24, 2020)
• Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony (Oct. 20, 2020)

Diversity Week Presentation

High Stakes: The Military and its Impact on the Family Unit

AAMN Affinity Group Monthly Meetings

• AAMN promotion of upcoming meetings, events and opportunities distributed in weekly Student News email newsletter. 

AAMN Nursing Leadership Speaker Series

The VUSN chapter began a monthly nursing leadership speaker series to help better understand the wide variety of paths nursing leaders take, and to develop conceptual frameworks around the leadership, networking, conflict resolution, life-long learning, and other opportunities that can lead to early career success as a new nurse practitioner:

• December 2021: Dr. Tom Christenbery, VUSN and former faculty advisor of VUSN AAMN
• February 2021: Instructor Chance Allen, VUSN and Private Practice PMHNP/LCSW
• March 2021: Instructor Clint Leonard, VUSN and VUMC Burn Unit NP
• April 2021: Dr. Sam MacMaster, Corporate Director of Clinical Operations at Promises Behavioral Health 
• June 2021: Dr. Michael Gooch, VUSN Emergency Medicine, Flight Medicine
• July 2021: Dr. Matt Martin, VUSN DNP Instructor, HCA Director of Regulatory and Accreditation Services