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    In the thick of it: COVID fighters with the Navajo Nation

    Vanderbilt alumni Annie Moon, MSN’03, and Dr. Jill Moses, MD’91, confront a continuing COVID-19 crisis as they deliver health care to the Navajo Nation Read More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Vanderbilt Nurse in PPE

    It takes a team: Lessons from inside Vanderbilt's COVID-19 unit

    Vanderbilt Hospital tapped a team of experienced nurse practitioners to set up and provide care in its COVID-19 unit. They, along with the rest of the unit professionals, are still at it after nearly a year of what one describes as probably the hardest months of any of their professional lives. Read More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Formal portrait of Dean Linda Norman

    Dean's Message — Winter 2021

    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 More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Alumni named fellows in American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and American Academy of Nursing

    Alumni named fellows in American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and American Academy of Nursing

    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 More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Dean Linda Norman to step down in June 2021

    Dean Linda Norman to step down in June 2021

    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 More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Terrah Akard stands in front of trees and plants

    Can virtual songwriting help seriously ill children and their families?

    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 More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Ginna Corts, BSN'70, MSN'73, one of VUSN's first FNPs, has died

    Ginna Corts, BSN'70, MSN'73, one of VUSN's first FNPs, has died

    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 More

    Feb. 19, 2021

  • Hudson appointed assistant dean for student affairs

    Hudson appointed assistant dean for student affairs

    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 More

    Feb. 19, 2021

  • Chronic pain and LGBTQ researchers named VUSN visiting professors

    Chronic pain and LGBTQ researchers named VUSN visiting professors

    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 More

    Feb. 19, 2021

  • Nurse-Midwife Vernicia Winford holds her infant niece and talks to her sister-in-law

    Philosophy of care for women of all ages

    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 More

    Feb. 19, 2021

  • Vanderbilt professor Tom Christenbery leans against porch rail in portrait for Summer 2020 Vanderbilt Nurse magazine.

    School of Nursing mourns loss of Tom Christenbery, beloved professor and champion of compassion in nursing

    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 More

    Feb. 17, 2021

  • Dr. Sheila Ridner & Mazo Freeman

    Cancer patient research and care continue in midst of pandemic

    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 More

    Feb. 15, 2021

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    Student groups program VUSN's 2021 Diversity Month Activities

    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 More

    Feb. 8, 2021

  • Child stands on scale, adult behind them. Only legs and scale show.

    Muchira studys links in mother-child cardiovascular health, coronavirus anxiety

    Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, School of Nursing postdoctoral fellow James Muchira designed a study to examine the relationship between maternal cardiovascular health and early childhood obesity and arterial stiffness in 1- to 5-year-old children. He altered his recruitment and data collection protocols to prioritize the safety of the participants and research personnel when he returned to the lab through Vanderbilt's Research Ramp-up process. Read More

    Feb. 6, 2021

  • Maddie Harris

    Rosemark Women Care Specialists (ID) adds Maddie Harris, VUSN MN-FNP Alumna, to delivery team

    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 More

    Feb. 4, 2021

  • VUSN MSN Alumna Alisha Haushalter

    VUSN MSN Alumna, Alisa Haushalter, named Communicator of the Year for 2020 in Shelby County (TN)

    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 More

    Jan. 28, 2021

  • Zoom video grid with four people appearing. Clockwise from top left: Randy Tarkington, Andrea George, GL Black and Pam Jones

    "The tightest team that's never met" keeps VU running during pandemic

    They’ve been working together, side by side—or, rather, screen by screen—seven days a week for months to keep a bustling urban campus with thousands of active students, faculty, researchers and staff open and running in the midst of a pandemic. Andrea George, MS’94, PhD’07, director of environmental health and safety for the university, and Pam Jones, BSN’81, MSN’92, DNP’13, senior associate dean for clinical and community partnerships at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, are co-commanders of the university’s Public Health Central Command Center. They were instrumental in developing and leading Vanderbilt’s ambitious and successful Return to Campus Plan. Read More

    Jan. 26, 2021

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    VUSN Nurse-Midwifery program seeks third-party comments for ACME accreditation

    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 More

    Jan. 15, 2021

  • Headshot of Vanderbilt's Kate Payne

    Kate Payne, Vanderbilt nurse and bioethicist, has died

    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 More

    Jan. 14, 2021

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    "Making 'Good Trouble'" is topic of Martin Luther King, Jr. lecture hosted by VUSM and VUSN

    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 More

    Jan. 11, 2021

  • Patricia C. Frist

    Frist family matriarch, Nashville philanthropist Patricia Champion Frist dies at age 81

    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 More

    Jan. 11, 2021

  • Cellphone showing app for contract tracing for COVID 19 next to a face mask

    Paid opportunity to help VU with contact tracing

    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 More

    Jan. 7, 2021

  • Agnes and Frank Godchaux

    Godchaux family’s legacy continues with $6.6 million in gifts to the School of Nursing

    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 More

    Dec. 15, 2020

  • Specialty Block Update 12/14/20

    Specialty Block Update 12/14/20

    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 More

    Dec. 15, 2020

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    Combating COVID-19 pandemic: Vanderbilt seeing uptick in nursing program enrollment

    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 More

    Dec. 10, 2020

  • Pearl Bransford

    Franklin community leaders create scholarship fund in honor of late Alderman and VUSN MSN alumna Pearl Bransford

    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 More

    Dec. 10, 2020

  • Erin Stultz, MSN Alumna

    Get to know VUSN MSN Alumna, Erin Stultz Castellano

    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 More

    Dec. 9, 2020

  • Vanderbilt Professor Dr. Jonathan Metzl stands outside Vanderbilt's Calhoun Hall

    Metzl to discuss political allegiances, health decisions and racial anxiety in Jan. 11 VUSN Dean’s Diversity Lecture

    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 More

    Dec. 8, 2020

  • Sepia colored photo of an open book with a stethoscope on the opened pages

    Making an Impact

    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 More

    Dec. 1, 2020

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    Currently Funded Grants and Contracts

    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 More

    Dec. 1, 2020

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    Welcome New Faculty

    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 More

    Dec. 1, 2020

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    Selected Works and Accomplishments, 2019

    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 More

    Dec. 1, 2020

  • Maxo Freeman and Sheila Ridner with BIS device

    Ridner returns to cancer patient research and care during Research Ramp-up to advance intervention studies

    When in-person research activities at Vanderbilt were put on hold in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sheila Ridner, PhD'03, MSN'00, FAAN, the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of Nursing and director of the PhD in Nursing Science Program, was the primary investigator on two research studies with oncology patients. “The participants in the lymphedema prevention study had given us five years of their lives, and so we also felt an ethical responsibility to finish our work in supporting them,” Ridner said. Read More

    Nov. 20, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University School of Nursing building

    Recent honors and awards for School of Nursing faculty and students

    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 More

    Nov. 18, 2020

  • Mavis Schorn

    VUSN's Schorn reflects on time with Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance IPE program

    Mavis Schorn, PhD, APRN, CNM, CNE, FACNM, FAAN, FNAP, served with the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance’s (MVA) Interprofessional Education and Inter-Institutional Collaborative Learning (IPE) program for almost nine years. She was Director and Co-Director during the last four. Earlier in 2020, she stepped away from the program. She recently reflected on her tenure and passing the torch. Read More

    Nov. 18, 2020

  • Christian Ketel, VUSN

    Ketel looks forward to work as IPE Co-Director for Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance

    Assistant Professor and Clinic at Mercury Courts Clinical Director Christian Ketel, DNP'14, RN, has added a new role: Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Inter-Institutional Collaborative Learning co-director with the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. He sat down with MVA writer Matt Schorr recently to talk about his new adventure. Read More

    Nov. 18, 2020

  • Headshot of new informatics dean at Vanderbilt, Patricia Sengstack

    Top nurse informaticist named VUSN senior associate dean

    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 More

    Nov. 16, 2020

  • U.S. map showing licensing for APRNs

    National Study: Pandemic, Oversight Waivers Impact Advanced Practice Nurses

    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 More

    Nov. 11, 2020

  • Headshot of Ken Wallston

    Ken Wallston, prominent nursing researcher and health psychology pioneer, has died

    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 More

    Nov. 11, 2020

  • DNP students sit in a classroom listening to visiting professor Tonda Hughes

    VUSN receives $1.35 million NFLP grant to educate future faculty

    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 More

    Nov. 1, 2020

  • Logo for American Academy of Nursing. 2020 Induction Ceremony Saturday, October 31

    Six Vanderbilt School of Nursing alumni named fellows by American Academy of Nursing

    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 More

    Oct. 27, 2020

  • Badge that reads AAMN Best Schools for Men in Nursing

    VUSN named Best School for Men in Nursing third time

    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 More

    Oct. 27, 2020

  • Text that reads OUT The National Cancer Survey. The O in out is filled with rainbow colors.

    Vanderbilt cancer researcher pairs with LGBTQI+ expert on OUT: The National Cancer Survey

    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 More

    Oct. 26, 2020

  • VUSN dean Linda Norman stands behind a wooden VU podium with the apricot VUSN banner beside her

    Search committee for new dean launched

    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 More

    Oct. 26, 2020

  • Vanderbilt family nurse practitioner student talks to a patient sitting on an exam table in a clinic.

    VUSN receives $3.2 million federal grant to increase diversity in health care providers

    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 More

    Oct. 21, 2020

  • Photo of VUSN building with people walking out of it. Text reads VUSN's Return to Campus Covid-19 Response

    Dean Norman’s October 7 Spring Semester Email Announcement

    The fall semester is half way through, and you and the entire Vanderbilt community have been diligent in fighting COVID-19 by Anchoring Down and Stepping Up. Thank you for your commitment to safety measures, social distancing and putting the health of others first. It is making a difference. VUSN will have a staggered semester start, with MSN specialties beginning classes on Monday, January 4, and MSN PreSpecialty, DNP and PhD classes beginning Monday, January 11. There will not be a spring break this year. Read More

    Oct. 7, 2020

  • Logo of HEED award--Higher Education Excellence in Diversity 2020

    Vanderbilt School of Nursing earns national HEED award for diversity

    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 More

    Oct. 5, 2020

  • Formal portrait of Dean Linda Norman

    VUSN Dean Linda Norman to step down June 30, 2021

    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 More

    Sep. 23, 2020

  • Headshots of 5 VUSN faculty. All ae dressed professionally.

    Recent promotions for VUSN faculty

    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 More

    Sep. 23, 2020

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    Vanderbilt Nurse Faculty Practices Anchor Down, Step Up

    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 More

    Sep. 17, 2020