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Vanderbilt awards endowed chairs to two nursing professors
October 4, 2018
Two Vanderbilt University School of Nursing professors have been named to endowed chairs, the highest honor Vanderbilt University awards its faculty. Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, FAAN, FAANP, FCCM, received the Independence Foundation Chair in Nursing Edu-cation. Kleinpell, an internationally recognized researcher and educator, serves as VUSN’s assistant dean for clinical scholarship. She directs the school’s Scholarly…
VUSN rises in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 graduate school rankings
October 4, 2018
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has again been named one of the nation’s “Best Graduate Schools” in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings. The school’s Master of Nursing Science program moved up to No. 14 from No. 15 and its Doctor of Nursing Practice program continued as the No. 11-ranked DNP in…
Class Notes — Fall 2018
October 4, 2018
60s Donna Townsend Maddox, BSN’61, is president of Marketing and Business Consultants Inc. in Sarasota, Florida. 70s Evelyn Manoogian Biles, ‘73, is founder and president of Global Mosaic International, a nonprofit Christian organization in Yorktown, Virginia. Diane Cody Roberts, BSN’73, is a school nurse in the Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston, Texas. Ann…
Photo Gallery: Outreach Far and Wide
March 19, 2018
Middle Tennesseans’ needs go well beyond the four addressed in this issue of Vanderbilt Nurse — so the School of Nursing’s care stretches far and wide as well. Here’s a sample of other VUSN projects. Health care for the homeless: PreSpecialty students like LaToya Hopkins, MSN’16, conduct health assessments and help homeless individuals create portable…
Class Notes — Spring 2018
March 12, 2018
50s Ruth Bishop Limehouse, BSN’56, celebrated her 90th birthday in her hometown of Harleyville, South Carolina, in May 2017. 60s Susan Applegarth Murphy, BSN’69, is a keynote speaker, author and business consultant living in Rancho Mirage, California. 70s Adrienne Ames, MSN’75, received the Elizabeth Jacobs Service Award from the Council on Aging in…
VUSN receives nearly $1 million grant to add mental and behavioral health providers to community clinic
March 12, 2018
The Clinic at Mercury Courts has added psychiatric-mental health care to its primary care clinical services, thanks to a $999,101 grant from the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration (HRSA) to Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. The two-year grant allows the nurse-managed clinic to add a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner, social worker and psychiatrist to…
