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Dean’s Message
March 13, 2018
Dear alumni, colleagues and supporters, How do you define a community? Is it the people you interact with day to day? Is it your physical building or the neighborhoods surrounding the place you live and work? Is it a town, a city, a region or even a state? The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing defines…
Excitement builds during construction progress
March 12, 2018
Students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) participated in a groundbreaking ceremony June 20, 2017, that marked the start of construction on the nursing school’s new $26.3 million expansion. Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente, Board of Trust Trustee…
VUSN receives nearly $1 million grant to add mental and behavioral health providers to community clinic
March 12, 2018
The Clinic at Mercury Courts has added psychiatric-mental health care to its primary care clinical services, thanks to a $999,101 grant from the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration (HRSA) to Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. The two-year grant allows the nurse-managed clinic to add a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner, social worker and psychiatrist to…
Class Notes — Spring 2018
March 12, 2018
50s Ruth Bishop Limehouse, BSN’56, celebrated her 90th birthday in her hometown of Harleyville, South Carolina, in May 2017. 60s Susan Applegarth Murphy, BSN’69, is a keynote speaker, author and business consultant living in Rancho Mirage, California. 70s Adrienne Ames, MSN’75, received the Elizabeth Jacobs Service Award from the Council on Aging in…
Frailty? Tai Chi? Constipation?
March 12, 2018
This wasn’t the kind of library they remembered from their childhood. The group of 14 older adults were enjoying a meal of seafood cannelloni, salad and cupcakes as sunshine beamed on the stacks of books just outside the room. Speaking above a whisper and asking questions was encouraged. They came to the Edmondson Pike Library…
A New Perspective
March 12, 2018
Sometimes the realities our patients face are far from what we ourselves have experienced. A senior may need medication but not have transportation to get to the pharmacy. Children might live in a neighborhood where shootings are common. A single parent may regularly run out of food to feed her family well before the next…
