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Donaldson named DNP program director
August 30, 2012
Terri Donaldson, DNP, MSN, has been named director of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. For the past year, she has served as co-director with Donna McArthur, Ph.D., MSN, who will continue as faculty in the DNP program that she helped develop. “Donna did a wonderful job launching our Doctor of…
Record number receive Nursing professional pins
August 9, 2012
The largest group of students in Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s history received their professional pins of Nursing at a ceremony held Sunday at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in downtown Nashville. VUSN Dean Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., CNM, awarded pins to 326 students before a crowd of more than 2,000 friends and family members who…
Middle Tennessee woman helps lead midwife movement
July 25, 2012
A Middle Tennessee woman remains at the forefront of a movement that encourages women to give birth with the aid of midwives. Ina May Gaskin is a founding member of The Farm, a former commune in Summertown, about 90 miles from Nashville. Over the past several decades, she and her team of midwives have delivered more…
VU study finds stress fuels breast cancer metastasis to bone
July 18, 2012
Stress can promote breast cancer cell colonization of bone, Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biologyinvestigators have discovered. The studies, reported July 17 in PLoS Biology, demonstrate in mice that activation of the sympathetic nervous system – the “fight-or-flight” response to stress – primes the bone environment for breast cancer cell metastasis. The researchers were able to…
VUSN’s Moore-Davis to attend NIH’s Summer Genetics Institute
June 14, 2012
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing instructor Tonia Moore-Davis, CNM, MSN, has been selected to attend the National Institute of Nursing Research Summer Genetics Institute (SGI) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., this June. The SGI is designed to provide a foundation in molecular genetics to use in future research, clinical practice and…
Jessee named VUSN PreSpecialty director
June 14, 2012
6/14/2012 – Mary Ann Jessee, MSN, R.N., has been named Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Pre-Specialty director. She had been serving as interim director of the program since last August. VUSN’s prespecialty program enrolls approximately 150 students each academic year. The students already hold bachelor’s degrees in fields other than nursing. They participate in three semesters…
