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  • Sara Plummer, Adrienne Ames and Frances Edwards during the annual Nurses Day luncheon at their residence, the Blakeford.

    Once a Nurse: Community of Nurses Continues in Retirement

    At a retirement center nestled in the hills of Nashville, a cadre of Vanderbilt nurses have built a community within a community. No single career experience connects them—they’ve been war nurses, flight nurses, ER nurses and floor nurses, as well as teachers, researchers and administrators. Their relationships are woven through their vast web of experience, with their love of nursing at the hub. “Nurses always find each other,” says Charlotte Covington, BSN’69, MSN’89, associate professor of nursing, emerita. Read More

    Nov. 30, 2021

  • Dean Pam Jeffries at her desk writing

    Dean's Message—Time of transformation

    Dean Pamela Jeffries pens her first letter for "Vanderbilt Nurse." She outlines the changes coming to nursing education nationally and shares about her first 100 days at Vanderbilt School of Nursing. Read More

    Nov. 30, 2021

  • Currently funded grants and contracts

    Currently funded grants and contracts

    Current funding in research, nonresearch and clinical-community partnership grants Read More

    Nov. 27, 2021

  • Welcome New Faculty

    Welcome New Faculty

    New additions to the Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty bring expertise in education, practice, research and scholarship. Read More

    Nov. 27, 2021

  • Selected works and accomplishments, 2020

    Selected works and accomplishments, 2020

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing faculty are recognized for discovery, scholarship and leadership in the nursing profession and higher education. Here is an abridged list of their work during the last full calendar year, followed by a sampling of student accomplishments. Read More

    Nov. 27, 2021

  • Vanderbilt reaccredited by CCNE and ACME

    Vanderbilt reaccredited by CCNE and ACME

    Story by Jan Read At a retirement center nestled in the hills of Nashville, a cadre of Vanderbilt nurses have built a community within a community. No single career experience connects them—they’ve been war nurses, flight nurses, ER nurses and floor nurses, as well as teachers, researchers and administrators. Their… Read More

    Nov. 27, 2021

  • Ten faculty honored as fellows

    Ten faculty honored as fellows

    Story by Jan Read At a retirement center nestled in the hills of Nashville, a cadre of Vanderbilt nurses have built a community within a community. No single career experience connects them—they’ve been war nurses, flight nurses, ER nurses and floor nurses, as well as teachers, researchers and administrators. Their… Read More

    Nov. 27, 2021

  • Three faculty to head professional associations

    Three faculty to head professional associations

    Three of the nation’s professional nursing associations have elected Vanderbilt faculty to their highest offices. Read More

    Nov. 27, 2021

  • National initiatives tap Vanderbilt faculty

    National initiatives tap Vanderbilt faculty

    Four Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty have been appointed to leadership roles with national organizations, including the National Advisory Council for Nursing Education and Practice; Diversity Committee of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty; American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Network.; National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing; and the American Nurse Association’s Innovation Advisory Committee. Read More

    Nov. 27, 2021

  • research

    VUSN receives NIH award to teach genomics education to nursing faculty and clinicians

    Story by Jan Read At a retirement center nestled in the hills of Nashville, a cadre of Vanderbilt nurses have built a community within a community. No single career experience connects them—they’ve been war nurses, flight nurses, ER nurses and floor nurses, as well as teachers, researchers and administrators. Their… Read More

    Nov. 26, 2021