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Spotlight on Nursing Research/Swelling in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
April 23, 2011
Sheila Ridner, PhD, MSN, wants everyone to know that lymphedema (swelling) doesn’t just happen to breast cancer survivors. So, she’s expanding her research to head and neck cancer patients. “This work is so important because lymphatic damage and the fibrosis happen from the shoulder to nasal area where our mechanisms for swallowing, nourishing and breathing…
Alumni Profile/Michael Briley, MSN ‘94, DNP, APN, Julia Hereford Society President
April 23, 2011
When people ask me about the practice I started more than 17 years ago, I tell them it’s more than a business. It’s a philosophy. I believe that wellness and preventions of problems are the keys to a better, richer life. This philosophy is fundamental to all aspects of my practice and reflects the strong…
Class Notes – Spring 2011
April 23, 2011
40s Eunice Moe Brock, BSN ‘41, is honorary president of the Liaocheng International Peace Hospital in China. She is writing a book “Search for a World View” that will harmonize the scientific concepts of the physical and spiritual realms, and hopes to have it translated into Chinese in 2011. Bess Winchester Isaacs, BSN ‘47B, lives…
VUMC Subject of New TV Series
April 19, 2011
Once again Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been chosen as the subject of a new health care reality TV series scheduled to make its broadcast debut on a cable network this spring. The series, titled Baby’s First Day, was produced by New York-based True Entertainment. It is a brand new effort for a daytime programming…
Got Blood?
April 19, 2011
Students and visitors at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing have gotten used to seeing an American Red Cross Bloodmobile in the Godchaux Hall parking lot a few times this year. During the fall and spring semesters, nearly 80 faculty, staff, and community members donated much-needed blood for the Tennessee Valley Region of the American Red…
A Fresh Way to Prepare ACNPs
April 19, 2011
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is expanding its training of Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) to include a new subspecialty of intensivists. Joan King, PhD, RN, program director for the ACNP program, has been awarded a three-year, $800,000 grant from the Health Research Services Administration to work collaboratively with Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Division of…
