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School receives more than $3 million in HRSA grants to increase SANE and rural/underserved area providers
Two Vanderbilt School of Nursing professors have received grants totaling more than $3 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration to educate nurse practitioners to provide critical health care particularly in rural and underserved areas. Ginny Moore, director of the women’s health nurse practitioner specialty and… Read MoreJul. 23, 2021
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Going the Distance
Women’s Health NP Specialty Director Ginny Moore considered using paper towel tubes and other easily obtained supplies to construct pelvic models when students couldn’t come to campus. Last spring Associate Professor Ginny Moore, DNP, MSN’90, stood in her kitchen with empty paper towel tubes in hand, puzzling over… Read MoreJul. 20, 2021
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Change of Shift: A conversation with Dean Linda Norman
On Stepping Forward and Stepping Down School of Nursing’s Dean Linda Norman discusses the School of Nursings past, present and future as she prepares to step down from her position as Dean. Linda Norman joined Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in 1991 as its assistant dean for administration. Within… Read MoreJul. 20, 2021
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Maternal Health Crisis
From left, James Muchira, Jeremy Neal, Mulubrhan Mogos, Julia PhillippiVUSN Maternal Health researchers. Promising research focuses on the mother’s health to ensure her—and her child’s— well-being in the short and long term The tie between mother and child is never closer than while the child is… Read MoreJul. 20, 2021
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In the Thick of It: COVID fighters with the Navajo Nation
As a high school student who excelled in science and health, Annie Moon, MSN’03, wanted a career that would both challenge her and give her the opportunity every day to make a difference in people’s lives. Nursing fit the bill, and she has worked her entire career on the… Read MoreJul. 20, 2021
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Legacies of Pioneering Deans Fuel Recent Graduates to Follow Their Passions
When Karina Maza, MSN’19, was working as a Spanish language interpreter at Vanderbilt University Medical Center a decade ago, she would sometimes find herself interpreting for School of Nursing students. “I was impressed by how well they performed their tasks as students,” Maza says. “They were total… Read MoreJul. 20, 2021
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Twice the Hope: Celebrating the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021
After a 12-month wait, the Vanderbilt School of Nursing Class of 2020 celebrated—and was celebrated—in person during Investiture ceremonies held on campus May 2. The intimate ceremony for graduates, family and friends was both traditional and innovative as it accommodated COVID-19 safety protocols while still retaining appropriate pomp and… Read MoreJul. 20, 2021
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School of Nursing mourns loss beloved professor Tom Christenbery
Update: View Vanderbilt School of Nursing’s memorial service for Dr. Christenbery. Thomas L. Christenbery, MSN’87, PhD’04, CNE, professor of nursing and director of program evaluation at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, died unexpectedly in his sleep Tuesday, Feb. 16. He was 66.The popular Christenbery was… Read MoreJul. 20, 2021