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Nursing Leadership in Global Health Symposium
November 5, 2013
In February, Vanderbilt University will host the Nursing Leadership in Global Health Symposium, which aims to promote the nursing model of care as a means to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations in resource-limited settings around the globe. The symposium is open to nurses and other health care workers and administrators who are…
5 Things You Need to Know about Dean Norman
November 5, 2013
• She ends meetings with: “Does anyone have anything else to share for the good of the School?” • She has a long history of approaching faculty with: “Do I have an opportunity for you!” • She has a hearty laugh. • She has a habit of waking up and working from 2-4 a.m., then…
Q+A: An Interview with Terri Donaldson
November 5, 2013
Vanderbilt Nurse recently sat down with Terri Donaldson, DNP, RN, ACNP-BC, director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program. Donaldson has nearly 30 years of experience in cardiac and critical care nursing, has been on faculty since 2001, and became the DNP program director in 2012. She shares why the DNP is one of the…
Nursing without borders
November 5, 2013
Carol Ziegler’s great-grandfather was a Rough Rider, charging into battle with Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War. He had an intimate view of the effects of foreign intervention and hammered into his descendants that cultures were to be respected, not interfered with. The night she graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Family Nurse…
Congratulations to Senior Associate Dean Betsy Weiner elected to Institute of Medicine
October 21, 2013
Vanderbilt University’s Betsy Weiner, Ph.D., R.N., senior associate dean for Informatics in the School of Nursing, and Mark Frisse, M.D., MS, MBA, Accenture Professor and director of Regional Informatics, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the organization announced this week.
Travis family’s Vanderbilt legacy grows
September 5, 2013
He was a successful, self-made businessman, and she was a pioneering nurse, but the many professional accomplishments of Nancy and Hilliard Travis were eclipsed only by their ongoing generosity to the community, especially their beloved Vanderbilt. The most recent example is a generous gift to the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing for student scholarships, and…
