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  • Vanderbilt University

    School of Nursing among nation’s best in 2022 "U.S. News & World Report" rankings

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 30, 2021

  • Seven people in safety vests and masks pose with professor Jennifer Wilbeck in front of Nissan Stadium

    Vanderbilt students, staff and faculty volunteer at mass COVID-19 vaccination event

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 25, 2021

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    Vanderbilt School of Nursing hosts global climate education initiative

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 25, 2021

  • New VUSN Dean Pamela Jeffries

    Jeffries named dean of School of Nursing

    Pamela R. Jeffries, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, FSSH, an internationally recognized leader and innovator in nursing and health care education, will become dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, effective July 1, pending Board of Trust approval. Jeffries, professor and dean of the George Washington University School of Nursing in Washington, D.C., succeeds Linda Norman, who plans to step down from her leadership role on June 30.  Read More

    Mar. 24, 2021

  • New head of PhD program Terrah Akard at her desk

    Akard appointed to lead PhD in Nursing Science program

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 20, 2021

  • Resetting DUO after New Phone

    Resetting DUO after New Phone

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 18, 2021

  • Debbie Arnow in business suite is on one side of image, VU oakleaf is on other. Label reads Vanderbilt School of Nursing Faculty

    Arnow named director of Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 17, 2021

  • Stacey Bruff and Sherri Randolph on their wedding day in the VUMC COVID unit

    Tears of joy, tears of sorrow — College sweethearts, a COVID unit wedding, and a love story that ended too soon

    The first week of October, 2020, Vanderbilt School of Nursing alumna Sherri Randolph, MSN'97, planned to marry her college sweetheart, Stacey Bruff. As things turned out, Sherri and Stacey got married a few days earlier, Sept. 21, in the only wedding ever to take place in the COVID unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Tragically and unexpectedly, Stacey died two days after the wedding. Sherri was devastated, and she still has a hard time talking about Stacey without tears welling up. There is a lot of sadness about how things turned out. She knows that all over the world there are millions of lives that have been changed forever by the COVID-19 pandemic, and hers is one of them. So, this is a story rooted in the devastation of the pandemic. But don’t lose sight of this: it is still a love story. Read More

    Mar. 16, 2021

  • Jeaninne Blackwell

    VUSN Alumna, Jeaninne Blackwell, PMHNP-BC, Appointed Leader in new Collaborative Psych Evaluation and Medication Management Services

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 12, 2021

  • VUSN Alumna, Camille Legeay Cook, has died

    VUSN Alumna, Camille Legeay Cook, has died

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 8, 2021

  • Susie Adams

    Interview: Interventions and Other Suicide Prevention Measures Employed or Adapted in the Context of COVID-19

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 4, 2021

  • John Dowlen Alumnus

    John Dowlen, VUSN FNP Alumnus, hired at CHI Memorial Medical Group (TN)

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 4, 2021

  • April Kapu

    NPs and PAs Weigh In on Sugar and Alcohol Guidelines

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Mar. 2, 2021

  • New Julia Eleanor Blair Chenault Endowed Chair of Nursing, Julie Barroso

    Removing the stigma of HIV and AIDS

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Feb. 23, 2021

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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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Dean Linda Norman to step down in June 2021

    Dean Linda Norman to step down in June 2021

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Terrah Akard stands in front of trees and plants

    Can virtual songwriting help seriously ill children and their families?

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Feb. 19, 2021

  • Hudson appointed assistant dean for student affairs

    Hudson appointed assistant dean for student affairs

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Feb. 19, 2021

  • Chronic pain and LGBTQ researchers named VUSN visiting professors

    Chronic pain and LGBTQ researchers named VUSN visiting professors

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2021

  • Dr. Sheila Ridner & Mazo Freeman

    Cancer patient research and care continue in midst of pandemic

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Feb. 15, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Student groups program VUSN's 2021 Diversity Month Activities

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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)

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Jan. 15, 2021

  • Headshot of Vanderbilt's Kate Payne

    Kate Payne, Vanderbilt nurse and bioethicist, has died

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Jan. 11, 2021

  • Patricia C. Frist

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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Dec. 15, 2020

  • Specialty Block Update 12/14/20

    Specialty Block Update 12/14/20

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Dec. 15, 2020

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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Dec. 10, 2020

  • Pearl Bransford

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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Dec. 10, 2020

  • Erin Stultz, MSN Alumna

    Get to know VUSN MSN Alumna, Erin Stultz Castellano

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Dec. 8, 2020

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

    Making an Impact

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Dec. 1, 2020

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    Currently Funded Grants and Contracts

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Dec. 1, 2020

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    Welcome New Faculty

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… Read More

    Dec. 1, 2020

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

    Selected Works and Accomplishments, 2019

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was again named a Top 10 graduate nursing school, as ranked in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School survey released today. Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Nursing advanced to be the nation’s No. 8 program and its… 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