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Grant: Telehealth, Informatics
August 25, 2010
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has received a new $1.3 million grant from the Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA) for faculty development in informatics, simulation and telehealth. “Today’s nursing faculty are faced with the complex task of educating nurses for a world facing a workforce shortage, increasing patient complexities, and an ever-increasing dependence on…
Working Together for Prenatal Health
August 25, 2010
The Vanderbilt Schools of Nursing and Medicine have come together to improve prenatal care in a clinical partnership called the Shade Tree Early Pregnancy Program (STEPP). Second-year medical students Marissa Blanco, Kelly Bingham and Erin Toaz saw a need for targeted prenatal care, so they applied for grants to support the once-a-month clinic held at…
Nurse-Midwifery Practice Earns National Honor
August 25, 2010
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Nurse-Midwifery practice is among the best large practice groups in the country, according to the American College of Nurse-Midwives. The School’s Nurse-Midwifery practice was recognized as the best practice for the highest rate of first trimester patient entry into care among high-volume certified nurse-midwifery practices (500 or more births per…
Q + A: An Interview with Heidi Silver
August 25, 2010
Program Director Heidi Silver, Ph.D., R.D., has taken on many challenge throughout her 20-plus-year career in dietetics and nutrition. Now she is working with the School of Nursing to launch a master’s program that will educate a new generation of advanced practice dietitians and move the profession forward in meaningful ways. What do you want…
Study shows alcoholics’ brains must work harder to complete some tasks
June 17, 2010
Alcoholics can perform simple motor tasks, like finger tapping, as competently as those who don’t suffer from alcoholism, but they go about it a slightly different way and their brains have to work harder to complete the task, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center study shows. The Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research study compared 10 patients…
VUSN’s Vanderhoef honored by psychiatric nurses association
June 10, 2010
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Dawn Vanderhoef, Ph.D., has been named to receive the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2010 Annual Award for Innovation in Psychiatric Nursing Practice, and will be recognized at the association’s annual conference this fall in Louisville, Ky.
