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The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

Faculty and students in the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing have recently been recognized for career accomplishments, research, scholarship and leadership. Student Kaitlyn McGowen, right with patient Roger Conrad, has been named a Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions fellow. Other recent honors include: Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

Older adults who need advance care plans and health care/financial power of attorney documents can get them easily and free of charge thanks to a new interprofessional pilot project involving Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Vanderbilt Law School and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The pilot is underwritten by Nashville’s West End Home Foundation. The Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic ... Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

When Assistant Dean Jana Lauderdale, PhD, FAAN, took the stage at the National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA) 66th Annual Convention plenary session presented by Johnson & Johnson, she introduced herself in a unique way: “I’m a Comanche Indian and I’m a nurse.” Johnson & Johnson later featured her in an article in its "Nursing Notes" newsletter. Read more / Watch Lauderdale’s presentation. Read More

Alumna Anna Froelich, MSN'17, is the lead provider in a Suboxone therapy program in Sierra Vista, AZ. Small clinics like hers are making inroads in treating the opioid epidemic in rural America. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

Stuart Downs, DNP'13, MSN’10, was honored with Atlanta's Executive Nursing Leadership Excellence Award last month at the area's Celebrating Nurses luncheon. The award recognizes a chief nursing officer or chief nursing executive serving in an administrative capacity in a Metro Atlanta hospital who demonstrates advocacy, vision and collaboration to improve patient care and the nursing workplace. Previously chief nursing officer and vice president, Downs is now chief operating officer and vice president of WellStar Atlanta Medical Center. Read More

Kathy Moss. a VUSN alumna, remembers the days when she and her sister spent hours practicing running a doctor’s office. Their dolls and stuffed animals served as patients. Moss was recently honored with a Five Pillar Leader Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. VUMC Voice shares her story. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

Shannon Cole, DNP, instructor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, and Melissa Hilmes, MD, assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, have been named co-directors of the Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning (VPIL) effective June 1. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The 2018 Founder’s Medalist for Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is Brenna Gillis, MSN’15, DNP. Gillis, who concluded her DNP work in August 2017, graduated with a 4.0 GPA — her second. Gillis is also an MSN alumna who earned a 4.0 in her master’s studies in 2015. Now a certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner, Gillis provides mental health services to children, adolescents and adults in Rutherford County. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

Genetics may predispose some heavy drinkers to alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM), Spanish researchers found. Mariann Piano, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, wrote an accompanying editorial in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.  "There are no specific histological, immunological, or biomarkers for the diagnosis of ACM. A key factor in ruling in ACM is a long-term history of heavy alcohol consumption in the absence of coronary artery disease," Piano wrote. "A number of pathophysiologic mechanisms have been linked to the development of ACM; however, one of the most important unresolved questions has been related to how certain genetic mutations may influence susceptibility to ACM." Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

Carol Etherington, MSN, R.N., FAAN, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing associate professor of nursing, emerita, has been named to the 2018 class of inductees into the Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame. She will be honored for her health care career, which includes founding the Nashville Preventative Partnership and developing the nation's first police department counseling program in Nashville. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

Rolanda Johnson, PhD’98, associate professor and assistant dean for academics, was honored as a Vanderbilt Pioneer during a portrait unveiling at Vanderbilt’s Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center this month. The Vanderbilt Pioneers program salutes women and minorities who were the first in university leadership roles. Johnson was recognized as the first African American to hold a vice-chair position in Vanderbilt’s Faculty Senate and as the first African American assistant dean of academics at VUSN. Striking photographs of the honorees taken by Vanderbilt Professor of Philosophy Lucius Outlaw Jr. can be viewed at the center. Read More

After two years as an arts major, Judy Jackson Lea, BSN’69, set her sights on Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and never looked back. “By the second year I knew I loved maternal/child health with an interest in public health,” she said. Read more Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

When Julie Foss came to Vanderbilt in 1979, she knew exactly where she wanted to work – the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU). Except for some brief stints in other areas, she has worked in MICU ever since. Foss, MSN'86, RN, NE-BC, retired in February after managing the MICU at Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital for nearly 30 years, a job on a high-stress unit that she never tired of. Read more from VUMC Voice Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More

The Salem Health Cancer Institute has launched a program to identify patients whose family history makes them an easier target for cancer. The program is running under the guidance of Clinical Nurse Specialist Nancy Ledbetter. After graduating with a bachelor’s of science in nursing from VUSN, Ledbetter focused on oncology. Read More