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Alumni Event: Dallas and Ft. Worth, Oct. 8, 2015

September 15, 2015

The Dallas and Ft. Worth area School of Nursing alums are in for a special evening with Dean Linda Norman on October 8!  Hosts Kell Douglas BSN ’75, Angela Donahue BSN ’76 and Doug Arrington MSN ’88 hope all the Dallas and Ft. Worth alums, preceptors, students and their guests will join them on October…

GAPNA Honors Two Faculty Members

September 14, 2015

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) Assistant Professor Linda Beuscher, PhD, GNP-BC, has been selected to receive the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA) Award for Excellence in Research, and Assistant Professor Megan Simmons, DNP, PMHNP-BC, will receive the organization’s first-ever Rising Star Award for serving as a role model to future geriatric nurse practitioners….

Texas Alumni Event

September 14, 2015

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Alums Kell Douglas BSN ’75, Angela Donahue BSN ’76, and Doug Arrington, MSN ’88, will be hosting a special evening event for VUSN alums, preceptors, students and their guests in the Dallas and Ft. Worth area on Oct. 8.  Dean Linda Norman will share updates about the exciting happenings of…

School Awarded AANA Post-Doctoral Fellowship

September 14, 2015

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was recently awarded support for a two-year, full-time, in-residence postdoctoral fellowship by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Foundation for a health services research topic related to anesthetic operative phenomena. “The AANA Foundation is providing this support at an important time in health care delivery,” said Ann Minnick, PhD,…

Professors Honored with Colleen Conway-Welch Awards

September 14, 2015

VUSN faculty members Mary Dietrich, PhD, MS, and Karen Hande, DNP, ANP-BC, RN, were each recently awarded with the Colleen Conway-Welch Award.  The award recognizes a faculty member in both the PhD program and DNP program who make significant contributions to student learning in their courses and/or encourage the student as their adviser or mentor…

Notice of CCNE Accreditation Review

September 14, 2015

The Masters of Nursing Science, the Post Master’s Certificate, and the Doctor of Nursing Practice programs at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing are scheduled for an accreditation review by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Oct. 21-23, 2015. As a part of that evaluation and accreditation process, we are notifying our major constituents that…

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