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Mapping America’s nurse-managed clinics
June 29, 2017
Bonnie Pilon, Ph.D., FAAN, knows and loves nurse-managed clinics so much she took a year off to visit as many as possible. Pilon, now Professor of Nursing, Emerita, opened and oversaw nurse-operated clinics for the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing for 15 years as senior associate dean. In 2015, she took a sabbatical year to…
Health care expansion through ACA may have reduced incidence of cardiac arrest
June 29, 2017
A limitation of the study “is that the determination of primary cardiac etiology for any [out-of-hospital cardiac arrest] was made on the basis of EMS information gathered at the time of arrest,” Mary Fran Hazinski, RN, MSN, FAAN, FAHA, professor in the division of trauma and surgical critical care at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing wrote in a…
Obamacare coverage linked to “extraordinary reduction” in deadly heart condition in one state
June 29, 2017
The observed reduction in cardiac arrest is a “surprising and very positive sign,” said Mary Fran Hazinski, a professor of trauma and surgical critical care at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville.
VUSN welcomes the future U.S. Surgeon General
June 26, 2017
Editor’s Note: Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams was named acting U.S. Surgeon General on April 21, making her the first U.S. Surgeon General who is not a physician. She had been deputy U.S. Surgeon General. Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, the then U.S. Deputy Surgeon General, visited Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) in January to speak…
Dean’s Message
June 26, 2017
Dear Alumni, Colleagues and Supporters, As dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN), I have the opportunity to make a lot of announcements and speeches. I speak at Commencement and pinning ceremonies; address prospective students at our fall and spring open houses; talk at receptions for alumni, students and visitors; deliver remarks to…
Compassion and Criminal Justice
June 26, 2017
When Joyce Laben, JD, MSN, BC, FAAN, came to Vanderbilt University School of Nursing as an associate professor of Psychiatric Nursing in 1970, she didn’t see herself as a reformer. But encountering horrific treatment of inmates with mental health challenges in Tennessee prisons during her clinical practice transformed her into someone who was going to…
