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Starting Point puts homeless community in touch with resources
November 3, 2014
Sponsored by the Metropolitan Homelessness Commission, Nashville Rescue Mission, Room In The Inn, United Neighborhood Health Services – Downtown Clinic and Vanderbilt School of Nursing, Starting Point is an event that places individuals experiencing homelessness in direct contact with multiple agencies in an effort to provide services and connections to long-term support. Overall, 34…
Nurse CIOs are taking on bigger roles in healthcare
November 1, 2014
n the early 1990s, registered nurse Charlotte Seckman moved to Maryland, where she was hired to help a large hospital transition from a paper patient-record system to a digital one. Her position as a nurse informaticist was not a common one at the time. Nurses still worked almost entirely at the patient bedside, and an…
Ten from Vanderbilt receive SEC faculty travel grants
October 30, 2014
Ten Vanderbilt faculty members will take part in the 2014-15 SEC Faculty Travel Grant Program. Now in its third year, the program provides support for selected faculty members to collaborate with colleagues at other Southeastern Conference member institutions. In addition, seven faculty from other SEC schools will collaborate at Vanderbilt. The goal of the program…
Web storytelling study helps children cope with cancer
October 23, 2014
The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) has been awarded a $1.8 million grant by National Institute of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research. The four-year grant is in partnership with the Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC), and will recruit children with advanced or relapsed cancer via Facebook and develop a Web-based tool so they can…
Future of the Libraries Committee named
October 23, 2014
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente has charged a new committee comprising faculty from across the university and library leadership and staff with developing a vision for the future direction of the Vanderbilt University library system. “Our libraries have been transformed over the past five years, but now is no time…
Ivory at United Nations
October 23, 2014
As Board President, VUSN Assistant Professor Cathy Ivory represented the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) at the Every Woman Every Child High-Level event last month as part of the United Nations General Assembly.
