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  • Victorian painting showing Florence Nightingale checking on the wounded in a hospital at night. She holds her iconic lamp.

    Lessons from Florence Nightingale are primary tools in COVID-19 nursing

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    May. 11, 2020

  • Play video icon is on top of photo of Dean Linda Norman in front of VUSN building

    Watch the Class of 2020 Congratulations Video from School of Nursing

    Dean Linda Norman, the Vanderbilt School of Nursing Senior Associate Deans and Program Directors share their good wishes and congratulations for the VUSN Class of 2020 as they move into the next phase of their nursing careers. Read Transcript Read More

    May. 8, 2020

  • VUSN Class of 2020 Founder's Medalist Jane Mericle

    Jane Mericle, DNP’20, is named School of Nursing Founder’s Medalist

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    May. 8, 2020

  • Hands holding up a mask as if about to put it on

    Quick guide on how to wear a mask

    Masks are now part of our daily lives. They are recommended by the CDC and other health experts as a way to limit the spread of COVID-19. David Aronoff, MD, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center has put together a quick tutorial on proper and safe masking. It’s a good refresher for those of us who are used to wearing masks and a valuable how-to for mask-wearing novices. This is also a great resource to forward to your friends, family and neighbors who may never have had to wear a mask before. A full article with illustration has been published online at the JAMA Patient Page. Read More

    May. 8, 2020

  • How to Setup a Zoom Meeting in Outlook

    How to Setup a Zoom Meeting in Outlook

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    May. 6, 2020

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

    Commencement 2020: Nurse-Midwifery Grad Vernicia Winford, MSN’20

    The first baby Vernicia Winford helped deliver into the world as a certified nurse-midwife was her own niece, born just a few days after the nursing graduate student passed her American Midwifery Certification Board exam last December. As a dual nurse-midwifery/family nurse practitioner student in the School of Nursing, Winford saw patients of all ages and genders in her clinical work at the Family Clinic in McMinnville, about 75 miles southeast of Nashville, while completing her FNP studies. More Read More

    May. 4, 2020

  • Stock image of open alcohol bottle with man in the background

    COVID-19 and alcohol consumption don’t mix

    News outlets have reported that more than 190 people in Iran died from drinking bootleg alcohol, possibly related to the mistaken belief that drinking alcohol can prevent COVID-19 infection. Vanderbilt School of Nursing professor Mariann Piano, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA, sets the facts straight about Coronavirus 2019 and alcohol, including reasons to monitor your alcohol consumption during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Piano, the Nancy and Hilliard Travis Professor of Nursing and Senior Associate Dean for Research, studies the adverse effects of unhealthy alcohol drinking on the cardiovascular system. Her current research focuses on binge drinking and young adults. Read More

    Apr. 23, 2020

  • Tired nurse leaning against wall

    What to do about COVID-19's psychological impact on nurses

    Three Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty tackle the psychological toll of COVID-19 on nurses with an article in American Nurse. With the COVID-19 crisis, nurses face unprecedented stressors in their professional and personal lives, write Brittany Haskell, DNP, Mathew Schroer, DNP, and Marci Zsamboky, DNP. “To best support nurses, understanding the psychological effects of COVID-19 on them, the impact of secondary traumatic stress (STS), and ways to manage these effects during this stressful time is important.” Read More

    Apr. 23, 2020

  • Vanderbilt nursing instructors in blue gowns communicate via laptop camera with a student about activity in VUSN's Simulation Lab

    Vanderbilt nursing students experience social distancing … and provide virtual clinical patient care

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Apr. 7, 2020

  • Vanderbilt researcher Mary Jo Gilmer, with Misha, a teddy bear goldendoodle

    Vanderbilt nursing professor named to International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Apr. 7, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University School of Nursing building

    School of Nursing earns high rankings in 2021 "U.S. News & World Report"

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Apr. 6, 2020

  • Vanderbilt Nursing Professor Geri Reeves next to a gold Vanderbilt logo

    VUSN's Geri Reeves on when to see your provider if you suspect coronavirus

    Associate Professor and board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner Geri Reeves, PhD, gives Prevention magazine tips on when you should (and shouldn’t) go to your health care provider if you suspect you might have Coronavirus. Read More

    Mar. 31, 2020

  • Kirkland Hall framed by trees

    2020 Commencement postponed a year due to COVID-19 outbreak

    Vanderbilt University has taken the extraordinary action—in order to protect the health and safety of the community—of postponing Commencement and all of its related festivities originally scheduled for May 6-8. The Class of 2020 will be formally celebrated next spring. Please reach out with any and all questions to covid-questions@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

    Mar. 31, 2020

  • Vanderbilt Nursing Professor Jennifer Wilbeck next to a gold Vanderbilt logo

    VUSN's Jennifer Wilbeck walks you through taking your temperature correctly

    Fever is one of the COVID-19 symptoms. School of Nursing Professor and Emergency Nurse Practitioner Jennifer Wilbeck, DNP, PMC'06, MSN'99, FAAN, FAANP, tells Prevention how to make sure you're taking your temperature correctly. Read More

    Mar. 30, 2020

  • The clock tower in Vanderbilt's Kirkland Hall, with the rest of the campus beyond it

    VUSN Dean Norman to lead Vanderbilt Public Health Task Force

    VUSN Dean Linda Norman will lead a new Public Health Advisory Task Force formed to serve as a resource for Vanderbilt during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interim Chancellor and Provost Susan R. Wente announced the new task force on March 23. Read More

    Mar. 25, 2020

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    Important information about Vanderbilt's response to COVID-19

    Vanderbilt University has moved to alternative and online education for the rest of the semester. Full information, updates and resources are available at vanderbilt.edu/coronavirus. Please reach out with any and all questions to covid-questions@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

    Mar. 20, 2020

  • ASA Briggs, NP testifies at joint public hearing in D.C.

    Alumnus testifies in support of mental health care workforce shortage bill

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Mar. 4, 2020

  • Gold Vanderbilt logo next to headshot of VUSN alumnus Randy Rasch

    Alumnus to lead Michigan efforts to improve health care for people of color

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Mar. 2, 2020

  • VUSN's Courtney Pitts, FNP Director

    If law allows, Nurse Practitioners may be answer to U.S. physician shortage

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Feb. 21, 2020

  • Two nurses seated at a computer monitor in a hospital nursing station while two informatics professionals, one female, one male, review the content on the monitor

    Special 10% tuition scholarships available for two VUSN specialties

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Feb. 5, 2020

  • White female nurse practitioner shows something on a tablet to an older African American male patient

    Applications open for new VUSN Community-based Nurse Practitioner Residency Fellowship progam

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Feb. 5, 2020

  • Gold Vanderbilt logo next to a photo of a smiling Vanderbilt Nursing male alumnus

    Wisconsin-based alumnus talks about flu and coronavirus

    Alumnus Ken Nelson, DNP'13, MSN'11, was featured on CBS station WFRV in Green Bay reassuring viewers that the health system is prepared if there were cases of coronavirus, but that the flu is having a much greater impact. Nelson is the chief nursing officer for HSHS St. Vincent and St. Mary’s hospitals in the northeast Wisconsin area and is a member of the alumni board for Vanderbilt School of Nursing. Read More

    Feb. 3, 2020

  • Linda Hughes speaking behind a prodium with a large photo of lesbian women drinking in a gay bar is on the screen

    Pioneering LGBTI researcher provides insight into health needs of sexual minority women

    When Tonda Hughes, PhD, RN, FAAN, began researching lesbian health in the early 1990s, her advisors were skeptical and discouraging. They were concerned that she wouldn’t get her papers published or be . . . . View the lecture Read More

    Jan. 31, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Commemorating Black History Month and Nursing

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Jan. 28, 2020

  • Vanderbilt Martin Luther King Jr. Award winners and guest speaker Phyllis Sharps hold plaques, while Dr. Andre Churchwell and Dean Linda Norman flank them

    VUSN faculty Hudson and Starks honored with MLK Award at annual lecture

    Two Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty received the annual Martin Luther King Jr. award presented by VUSN and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine during the 2020 MLK Commemorative Lecture on Monday. Assistant Professors Tamika Hudson, DNP, MSN’12, and Jannyse Starks, DNP’11, MSN,’09 were honored for their work with the Community Action Poverty Simulation, which helps students, faculty, staff and community leaders experience life in poverty through a planned simulation. School of Medicine Assistant Professor Adriana Bialostozky, MD, was also honored, receiving the MLK award for her work in providing culturally competent care in pediatrics. Read More

    Jan. 23, 2020

  • Faculty member Marci Zsamboky

    Zsamboky to lead VUSN’s Psychiatric-Mental Health NP program

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Jan. 21, 2020

  • A Vanderbilt Nurse Practitioner in a white coat talks with a female patient in an exam room

    Americans rank nurses as the most trusted professionals in the U.S.

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Jan. 20, 2020

  • Deana Clapper, VUSN MSN Alumna

    VUSN MSN Alumna, Deana Clapper, assists with Donate Life Rose Parade float

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Jan. 9, 2020

  • Tonda Hughes in front of rainbow flag

    LGBTQ and addiction expert to present VUSN Dean’s Diversity Lecture Jan. 14

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Dec. 18, 2019

  • Older adult man has arm around an older adult woman. Nashville Public Television logo is in the corner of the image.

    VUSN featured in NPT documentary on Companionship & Intimacy on Dec. 18

    A new Nashville Public Television documentary, Companionship & Intimacy: Aging Matters, explores the benefits and challenges of developing relationships as we age—with help from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing faculty, students and alumni. VUSN Assistant Professor Carrie Plummer, PhD, MSN’05, is one of the experts appearing in the documentary. Read More

    Dec. 10, 2019

  • Using Academic Community Partnerships to Improve Asthma Care in Elementary Schools with Limited School Nurse Services

    Using Academic Community Partnerships to Improve Asthma Care in Elementary Schools with Limited School Nurse Services

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Dec. 8, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    VUSN educator honored for gerontological nursing education excellence

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Nov. 22, 2019

  • Cathy Ivory sits in a classroom with rows of computer monitors behind her. She's dressed in a suit.

    Cathy Ivory named director of VUMC Nursing Research

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Nov. 19, 2019

  • Ruth Kleinpell, VUSN

    VUSN professor elected to leadership in three organizations

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Nov. 18, 2019

  • Faculty members Cathy Maxwell and Sally Miller stand on either side of a large poster headlined

    Recent honors and awards at the School of Nursing

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Nov. 18, 2019

  • Female military pilot in fatigues smiling at camera

    Army pilot’s mission to serve the most vulnerable leads her to School of Nursing

    U.S. Army combat veteran Mandi Mizner has devoted her life to serving her country and others. Following tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, she is continuing her mission of service through the advanced practice nursing program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She spoke to Vanderbilt Video about her path to Vanderbilt and being a Bass Military Scholar. Read More

    Nov. 8, 2019

  • Limestone arch over entrance to Godchaux Hall at Vanderbilt School of Nursing

    Vanderbilt nurses for life

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Nov. 7, 2019

  • Four women in business attire, with two holding large glass engraved awards. The women are Left, AACN President and CEO Deb Trautman, April Kapu, Linda Norman and AACN Board Chair Ann Cary.

    School of Nursing and VUMC receive national New Era for Academic Nursing Award

    Practices developed by Florence Nightingale are still relevant today, and in fact, are major weapons in the fight against COVID-19, says Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN. Norman, the Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, outlined Nightingale’s relevance in a video for… Read More

    Nov. 6, 2019

  • Dean Linda Norman in peach jacket in front of bookcase

    Dean's Message

    As the nation’s largest group of health care providers, nurses are often the professionals who see a need, gap in knowledge or better way in patient care or safety. Nurse-scientists — scholars who have been educated in rigorous scientific inquiry and focus on health care issues — take those questions and needs and set out to find solutions and better ways. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • Mariann Piano stands with her arms crossed

    Mariann Piano named to International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (News Around the School)

    Mariann R. Piano, PhD, FAAN, FAHA, Senior Associate Dean for Research at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, was inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame by Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • VUSN faculty in front of wood wall with VUSN logo

    VUSN receives federal grants to increase and equip FNPs in rural, underserved areas (News Around the School)

    Vanderbilt University School of Nursing received two awards totaling more than $5 million from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to increase the number of nurse practitioners working in rural and underserved communities where there aren’t enough primary care providers. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • Drs. Jennifer Wilbeck, April Kapu and Pam Jones in formal attire

    Alumni and faculty honored as fellows by AAN, AANP and ACNM (News Around the School)

    Twelve faculty and alumni of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing have been named fellows by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • VUSN faculty with award certificate. NLN officials are on either end and in the center of the photo.

    School of Nursing designated Center of Excellence (News Around the School)

    The National League for Nursing has named Vanderbilt University School of Nursing an NLN Center of Excellence in recognition of its high standards of educational excellence and visionary leadership. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • Nurse-Midwifery Academic Director Julia Phillippi with student Emily Behrend at the program’s recent Honoring of Hands ceremony

    Phillippi to head Nurse-Midwifery specialty (News Around the School)

    Julia Phillippi, PhD, MSN’99, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, has been named academic director of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Nurse-Midwifery program. She will also co-direct the Nurse-Midwifery/Family Nurse Practitioner dual-focus specialty. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • Rows of Vanderbilt graduates in gold and black robes sit waiting for Commencement to start. One is a master's graduate and the other is a doctor of nursing practice graduate.

    Graduates inspire optimism about health care’s future (News Around the School)

    The School of Nursing presented degrees to more than 400 graduates during Commencement and investiture ceremonies on May 10. The class included 348 MSN and 56 DNP graduates. An additional five PhD in Nursing Science graduates were honored in separate Vanderbilt Graduate School ceremonies. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • Students gather in the Colleen Conway-Welch Atrium

    Atrium dedicated to former dean Colleen Conway-Welch (News Around the School)

    The atrium in the new $23.6 million Vanderbilt University School of Nursing building has been named after former dean Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD, FAAN, FACNM, who served as dean for 29 years and is credited with transforming nursing education at Vanderbilt and nationally. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • Joyce Laben wears an aquamarine jacket and top and her husband Bob is in a suit. They stand before a painting in their house.

    VUSN mourns mental health advocate, forensic pioneer and professor Joyce Laben (News Around the School)

    Tennessee inmates with mental illness owe a debt of gratitude to Professor of Nursing, Emerita, Joyce Laben, JD, MSN, FAAN, who died June 30. Her pioneering work as director of forensic services for the Tennessee Department of Mental Health instigated procedures for them to be evaluated and treated in a humanly and timely manner. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • Inside CCW Atrium with focus on the stone stairs. Students are walking down them.

    Currently Funded Grants and Contracts

    This list includes research grants, nonresearch grants and clinical-community partnership grants that are active as of July 1, 2019. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • New faculty member Mulubrhan Mogos stands on the staircase landing in the CW Atrium

    Welcome New Faculty

    We welcome noted nurse scientists, experienced clinicians and stellar educators to Vanderbilt School of Nursing. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • Four APRNs with AANP Fellows medals on ribbons around their next. 2018 inductee Jennifer Kim, holds a plaque.

    Selected Works 2018

    VUSN faculty are recognized for discovery, scholarship and leadership in higher education and the nursing profession. Here is an abridged list of their work and honors, followed by a sampling of student accomplishments. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019