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PreSpecialty Students Reach Out Via Community Health Experiences
October 15, 2015
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) students in the PreSpecialty year gain clinical experiences with many different populations in Nashville and surrounding communities. Students are immersed in community programs that offer educational opportunities and allow VUSN to make a marked difference in improving the health of residents in Middle Tennessee. Community need, faculty expertise and…
The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Awards VUSN with Post-Doc Fellowship
October 15, 2015
The American Association of Nursing Anesthetists (AANA) Foundation recently awarded the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) support for a two-year, full-time, in-residence postdoctoral fellowship for a health services research topic related to anesthetic operative phenomena.
Usher Named Alumni Relations Director
October 15, 2015
Betsey Usher was named Director of Alumni Relations at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She will be responsible for developing and implementing activities to engage VUSN alumni and to link alumni with students. She has served at several positions at the school for past eight years, first as coordinator of the school’s Centennial celebration,…
Bethany Rhoten examines quality of life among cancer survivors
October 15, 2015
Bethany Rhoten’s research focuses on issues that few people openly discuss—those surrounding body image and sexuality among cancer survivors. “While conducting research for my dissertation, I saw how difficult it is when a patient with head and neck cancer looks in the mirror and the person they see is not the person they saw six…
VUSN Study on Alzheimer’s to Explore Perception of Pain
October 15, 2015
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) has been awarded a four-year $660,633 grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute on Aging to study how psychophysical responses to acute experimental thermal pain differ between older adults with and without Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).
Vanderbilt and Lipscomb Students Help Health Seniors with Medicare Enrollment
October 14, 2015
Students from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and Lipscomb College of Pharmacy volunteered a recent Saturday (Halloween) to help residents of Trevecca Towers in Nashville learn about Medicare’s Annual Open Enrollment options as well as provide some health screenings. “Medicare offers many options, and it can be confusing for many people to figure out which…
