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Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Tracey DeWire, MSN'08, ACNP-BC, had a 16-year career in sales before deciding to become a nurse practitioner, a decision inspired by her best friend’s cancer diagnosis. She’s kept that inspiration burning in the 15 years of her second career. Her compassionate care has led to a VUMC Patient and Family Choice Award. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Associate Professor Deonni Stolldorf 's project, "Implementation Science in Healthcare Settings," is part of the Provost's Faculty Grants for Culminating Projects in Immersion, designed to support faculty who provide students with transformative experiences across Vanderbilt. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is welcoming the first graduates of the Nurse Scholars Program, which pays for up to four semesters of nursing school tuition at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) or Cumberland University in return for a work commitment to VUMC. The welcoming of the graduates comes as the latest group of nursing scholars were recently accepted into the program, which began accepting scholars in 2023. The program will pay up to $7,500 in tuition per semester, which is applied after grants and other scholarships. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Nursing alumnus Victor Czerkasij, MSN’06, has made visits to Ukraine, the land of his parents and ancestors, part of his personal mission. On his recent visits, he treated hospitalized children who have been traumatized by the war. “What was amazing to me was how many of the children would say, ‘I’m OK. Why don’t you give it to the child next door? They’re even worse than me,’” Czerkasij recalls. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Three targeted research projects aimed at improving hospital models of care delivery are coming together at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education Ruth Kleinpell PhD, ACNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, FNAP, MCCM, and colleagued talked to "DIscoveries in Medicine" about their work on social determinants of health and how a new State of Tennessee grant is helping them evaluate how to fit routine SDOH screening into care. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Erin Miller, MSN’19, was honored with Vanderbilt's 2023 Early Career Professional Achievement Award during Reunion and Homecoming weekend Nov. 2-5. The award is given by the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association and recognizes alumni age 40 and under for their significant record of career achievement and promise for professional success. Both a certified pediatric nurse practitioner and a pediatric sexual assault nurse examiner, Miller was one of the first graduates from VUSN’s pilot VEP-SANE program. Today, her expertise as a pediatric SANE, child advocate and health care leader is recognized in more than 1,000 completed sexual assault exams and court testimony in more than 100 cases. Read More

Clinicians need to have a better understanding of the potential impact of patients’ anxiety sensitivity, or “fear of fear,” according to an article published in American Journal of Critical Care. When a patient has anxiety sensitivity, they misinterpret nonthreatening symptoms as threatening, assessing the potential meaning across physical, social or cognitive domains. These “what if” thoughts may trigger a spiral effect, stimulating the nervous system and resulting in stronger sensations and further catastrophic misinterpretations. Read More

The number of dedicated nurses entering the profession will increase, thanks to a $1.25 million pledge from the Conway-Welch Family Foundation to establish the Conway-Welch Second Degree in Nursing Scholarship at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. This milestone gift, which will be awarded to a student enrolling in Vanderbilt’s new Master of Nursing program, was made in honor of Colleen Conway-Welch, the former dean of the school who died five years ago from pancreatic cancer. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

A new partnership with AARP Tennessee and the National Museum of African-American Music is allowing the Theraputic Music in the ICU program led by Vanderbilt School of Nursing Professor Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, FAAN, MCCM, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center Professor Joseph Schlesinger, MD, FCCM, to expand with outreach to veterans and older adults at long-term care facilities in Middle Tennessee. Read More

Mulubrhan Mogos, assistant professor of nursing, studies ways to reduce cardiovascular disease risk among women. He was recently quoted in a story with collaborator Monica Keith, assistant professor of Anthropology, who published insights into the complex factors contributing to maternal hypertension and health disparities in a paper titled, “Social Determinant Pathways to Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Among Nulliparous U.S. Women” in the journal Women’s Health Issues. Read More

Makayla Cordoza, assistant professor of nursing, has won a multi-year grant of over $730,000 from the National Institute of Nursing Research. She will research how poor and disturbed sleep contributes to ICU delirium. More than one third of patients in the intensive care unit develop ICU delirium, an acute form of cognitive dysfunction that disproportionately increases the risk for worse outcomes and long-term cognitive impairment. Insufficient and disrupted sleep is also a known contributor to short and long-term neurocognitive deficits. Despite this, the sleep-delirium relationship has not been rigorously investigated, Cordoza wrote in the project abstract. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has received a four-year, $2.8 million Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Workforce grant for a primary care nurse practitioner residency program that will recruit, train and retain primary care providers with a passion for helping rural and underserved communities. Associate Professor Pam Jones, BSN’81, MSN’92, DNP’13, FAAN, is the grant’s project director, with Associate Professor Christian Ketel, DNP’14, FNAP, serving as primary author and evaluator. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Assistant Professor of Nursing Leanne Boehm, PhD’16, FCCM, has received a grant of more than $3.6 million over five years to examine, the efficacy of telemedicine services among people recovering from post-intensive care syndrome. This effort, funded by the National Institute on Aging, is the first PICS longitudinal cognitive impairment intervention study of its ki Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Rolanda Johnson. The leaders of an innovative Vanderbilt leadership development program have received a Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund award from AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, initiative of the AARP Foundation, AARP and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More

Carol Ziegler, MSN’06, DNP’12, professor of nursing and co-founder of the Climate, Health and Energy Equity Lab, was appointed to the Metro Nashville Board of Health on Aug. 15. Known for her climate and health expertise, Ziegler develops trans-institutional strategies to improve health outcomes in underserved communities through culturally appropriate, community-based health initiatives. Read More

Vanderbilt University announced today the creation of the Vanderbilt Center for Research on Inequality and Health, a trans-institutional collaboration of the College of Arts and Science and the School of Nursing. The center will convene leading Vanderbilt researchers with deep expertise in economic and social inequality, population health science, LGBTQ+ health policy and gun violence to explore the health impacts of these interrelated areas of study. Read More