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The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Alumni Association recognized 11 alumni and friends for their extraordinary work during the recent 2022 Reunion State of the School Address and Awards Ceremony. Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

U.S. Air Force Capt. Molly Dunkelberger, MSN'17, has a new role with the 17th Medical Group at Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas: She is one of eight pioneering aerospace nurse practitioners in the Air Force. Aerospace nurse practitioner is a new career field and Dunkelberger and her seven colleagues have been specially trained in aerospace medicine to fill the growing gap of flight surgeons. Dunkelberger serves as the primary care manager for the 17th Security Forces Squadron. Read More

Fall 2022 brought 584 new faces and a variety of backgrounds as part of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing incoming class, with 143 PreSpecialty (bachelor’s in a field other than nursing), 343 Direct Entry (BSN-prepared), 66 Doctor of Nursing Practice, one new PhD in Nursing Science and 23 Post-Master’s Certificate students, some of whom are also obtaining the DNP. Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing will hold its in-person Open House on Saturday, October 1, 2022, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn about the MN, MSN, DNP, PhD and Post-Master's Certificate Programs. Register now. Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

It’s a centuries-old practice: A more experienced practitioner guides a nursing student in how to apply the classroom education they have acquired. As days go by, the student learns from their preceptor and gains expertise in patient care and communications. Eventually, after hundreds of hours of experience, the student becomes a colleague. Read More

“The role of data science and technology continues to grow exponentially in health care delivery,” says School of Nursing Dean Pamela Jeffries, PhD, FAAN, ANEF, FSSH, the Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing. “New methods and discovery have the potential to impact large groups of patients, health care providers and health systems. You only need to look at the role data has played in forecasting and tracking the pandemic to see its value.”  Read More

When U.S. Navy nurse Stacey Rokas, MSN’22, filled out her application to Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, she was in South Korea, embedded with the U.S. Marines on a training exercise with an international joint force. She was the officer in charge of medical care.  Read More

Erin Miller, one of only two pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE-P) in the state of Florida, is on a mission to encourage more nurses to dedicate their careers to helping child sexual abuse survivors feel “brave and safe.” Read More

Certified nurse-midwives from three top universities have teamed up to improve pregnancy outcomes for Black women by creating a specialized training program for doulas, persons who support birthing mothers and families. Read More

When Frank and Ethel Battle moved to Nashville from Louisiana to start a new chapter as newlyweds, neither knew that the move would set Ethel on a path that not only changed her focus as a nurse but would also lead to expanded psychiatric care for thousands of American veterans. Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Assistant Professor Alvin Jeffery is a biomedical informatics expert, lending his expertise in developing back-end computational work to problems across health care. Here, Jeffery details studies funded by two recently awarded grants, including a grant of more than $2.3 million over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Read More

Vanderbilt has named Hannah Proctor, MSN’16, to the new role of reproductive health and parenting resource coordinator for the university community. Proctor has been part of the VUSN/Vanderbilt COVID response effort since early in the pandemic. She is a certified nurse-midwife, and will be the first point of contact for pregnant individuals and parents who may need assistance and support. She will be available to help faculty, students, staff and postdoctoral scholars. Read More

Nursing educators from across the United States traveled to Nashville this summer to attend the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s three-day, intensive Vanderbilt Informatics Summer Teaching Academy (VISTA). The workshop was created to help nursing schools incorporate informatics knowledge in curriculum required by the 2021 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essential Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education. Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

Going back to school can trigger headaches in children. In this feature from Vanderbilt Health, Jane Hearnsberger, MSN’2011, BS’10, Suzanne Beaird, MSN’07 and Lauren King, MSN’09, share information about potential causes and offer some ideas for how to prevent headaches. Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

Dishes clink and the delicious smell of stir fry fills the air as a small group of nursing students laugh and talk with residents at an Urban Housing Solutions community center. Vanderbilt University School of Nursing students are there to demonstrate food preparation techniques and healthy recipes for local senior citizens, as part of an Enhancement of Community and Population Health course series. Read More

Vanderbilt Independence Foundation Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Clinical Scholarship Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, FAAN, FAANP, MCCM, received a 2022 Fellow of American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ Legacy Award at the 2022 American Association of Nurse Practitioner annual conference in June and the 2022 Rebecca Clark Culpepper Education and Mentorship Award, given jointly by Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in May. Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance featured VUSN Associate Professor Christian Ketel, DNP, RN, FNAP, as part of the Faculty Spotlight. Ketel found his calling in the nursing profession early in life. After working mostly behind the scenes the past decade to improve patient health outcomes, Dr. Ketel describes being “thrust” into the community. “It turned out to be a match made in heaven,” he says. “The community work, being out in public, engaging with people and community partners—I love it!” Read More

Three nursing faculty were awarded 2022 Seeding Success Grants, which support early stage research identified as likely to obtain federal, foundation and industry funding. Assistant Professor Mulubrhan Mogos received funding for “Pathogenic Memory T-cells as Potential Therapeutic Targets for Preeclampsia,” Assistant Professor Jeremy Neal for “Differences in Labor-associated Inflammation Following Spontaneous Labor Onset Among Low-risk Black and White Nulliparous Women,” and Assistant Professor Lori Schirle for “The Feasibility of Incorporating Pain Sensitivity Testing into Total Knee Replacement Workflow.” Read More

Nurse-midwives and educators from three prominent research universities have teamed up to improve pregnancy outcomes in Black communities by providing specialized training for doulas, persons who support birthing mothers and families through the entire process of childbirth. Doulas offer emotional and informational support for pregnant persons and their families. Read More

Assistant Professor Megan Simmons, DNP’13, PMC’13, MSN’05, has been named academic director for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Specialty at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, effective August 1. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing celebrated a successful year at the annual Faculty and Staff Awards Thursday, where Dean Pamela Jeffries, PhD,  FAAN, ANEF, FSSH, announced that VUSN’s new Master of Nursing program, which allows students become master’s prepared registered nurses, received Tennessee Board of Nursing approval. Read More

Leaders at the forefront of systemic change make a difference by thinking about how to shift old patterns that have kept people marginalized. Thirteen students, including three from the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, nominated by deans across Vanderbilt this year got the chance to engage in such big-picture thinking as participants in the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership’s interprofessional student fellowship. Housed in the Vanderbilt Divinity School, the program brings together students from various disciplines to engage around socio-moral concerns.   Read More

VPIL teams, including FNP School of Nursing student Hayley Berry, spend one afternoon per week in a VUMC-affiliated clinic, seeing patients under supervision from preceptors from various health care professions, primarily physicians and nurse practitioners. They serve patients at Vanderbilt Familiar Faces Clinic, which provides ongoing care for patients with complex chronic medical conditions. Often, these patients also live with socio-economic and other personal stressors that can markedly affect their medical outcomes. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has launched a master of nursing degree to help meet the high demand for registered nurses in health care settings throughout the nation. The program aims to attract people looking for a career change or those with a bachelor’s degree in another field. Applications are open and will be accepted through August 2022. The program will begin in spring 2023. Read More

Christian Ketel and Carrie Plummer, both associate professors of nursing, were recognized by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners for their stewardship and successful outcomes of the Vanderbilt Mobile Vaccine Program. These leaders have also received Vanderbilt’s 2022 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, the Health and Wellness Award from the Hispanic Family Foundation and the 2022 John W. Runyan Community Nursing Award from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Assistant Professor Alvin Jeffery is one of 12 nurse scientists accepted into the third cohort of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators. The fellowship program, funded by a $37.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, recognizes early- to mid-career nursing scholars and innovators with high potential to accelerate leadership in nursing research, practice, education, policy and entrepreneurship. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing celebrated Commencement and Investiture Friday for those graduating in summer and fall 2021 and spring 2022. In total, 385 Master of Science in Nursing and 62 Doctor of Nursing Practice students graduated. An additional eight PhD in Nursing Science students received their degrees from Vanderbilt Graduate School. Read More

Master of Science in Nursing graduate Tip Tilton was selected as the School of Nursing's Founder's Medalist for the Class of 2022. The mother of two maintained a 4.0 cumulative GPA at Vanderbilt while earning her MSN in Nursing Informatics and working more than 40 hours a week as an RN quality improvement coordinator for John Muir Medical Center. She is now a clinical nurse informaticist at the Center for Digital Health Innovation at University of California, San Francisco. Read More

When military nurse Stacey Rokas filled out her application to Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, she was embedded with the U.S. Marines on a training exercise with an international joint force in South Korea. She was the officer in charge of medical care. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Professor Sheila Ridner, PhD, FAAN, recently completed a large randomized trial to assess early detection methods coupled with a prevention intervention for a common side effect of breast-cancer treatments—lymphedema. Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

Although physically in a classroom at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, a group of students were far, far away, virtually experiencing campfires, galaxies, snowfall and other relaxing settings. The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner students were exploring how virtual reality can be used in health care and education, taking part in an innovative VUSN pilot program called SparkleVille, which uses technology to enhance kinesthetic learning. The program also offers learning opportunities for nursing informatic students as part of their practicum.  Read More

Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver honored 36 scholars from across the university at an endowed chair investiture ceremony on campus March 30. Dean Pamela Jeffries received the Valere Potter Distinguished Chair in Nursing and Professor Julie Barroso received the Julia Eleanor Blair Chenault Chair in Nursing during the celebration. Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

2022 award winners include, from left: Cara Young, Karen Hande, Erin Miller, Jade Vergara, Rebekah Lee Hayes, Laura Buchanan, Amy Pettigrew and Taaka Cash. Honorees not pictured include: Abigail Morgan, Gilbert Gonzales and Bonnie Pilon.   By Tatum Lyles Flick VUSN Communications Specialist The Vanderbilt University… Read More

Terri Allision, assistant dean for academics, DNP program, was interviewed recently by writer Michelle Wojciechowski for "The DNP Executive Leadership Career Path: Is it Right for You?" The Minority Nurse article appeared in their special DNP issue earlier this month. Read More

The new season of Nashville Public Television’s hit show, Call the Midwife, starts this Sunday—and as they have since the series came to NPT in 2013, Vanderbilt School of Nursing nurse-midwives are ready to share their insights and experiences in post-episode blogs. Read More