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Study shows people with Alzheimer’s have a lower ability to detect pain but they feel it as intensely as healthy adults
July 12, 2016
People with Alzheimer’s disease don’t perceive pain as readily as healthy older adults, and this may lead to delays and underreporting of pain. This alteration in pain detection may be one reason that people with Alzheimer’s disease and pain tend to be undermedicated and suffer unnecessarily, a trans-institutional group of Vanderbilt researchers reported recently in…
VIDL awards funding to enhance teaching, learning through digital technology
July 1, 2016
The Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning (VIDL) distributed more than $46,000 in grants and awards this spring as part of its Innovation Programs initiative. Faculty, staff and students were invited to apply for VIDL funding for their projects that met criteria in one of four categories: MacroGrants, MicroGrants, Student Innovation Awards or Faculty Working Groups….
VUSN Alum Craig Hutto reflects on anniversary as a shark attack survivor
June 29, 2016
“It was June 27, 2005,” a now nearly 28-year-old Craig Hutto remembered. It was a day that would change his outlook – and his life. Craig, a 16-year-old Lebanon High School athlete at the time, was enjoying a beach vacation in Cape San Blas, Fla. with his parents Lou Ann and Roger Hutto, eldest brother,…
VUSN Alum Sasha (Levine) Bergeron active in opening of depression treatment facility in San Francisco
June 28, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, TMS Health Solutions today announced it has further expanded its practice to include a second clinic in San Francisco, bringing the company’s practice to four depression treatment centers in Northern California. The following clinicians will be accepting new patients at the new facility: Sasha Bergeron, MSN, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified family psychiatric…
Search committee for VUSN Senior Associate Dean for Research announced
June 24, 2016
Barbara A. Given, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, the Visiting Ingram Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) and university distinguished professor at the Michigan State University College of Nursing, will lead the search committee for the next senior associate dean for research for VUSN. The trans-institutional search committee will work with executive search…
Emerging nurse leaders receive inspiration and encouragement during seminar
June 22, 2016
Susan Cooper, MSN, R.N., FAAN, senior vice president for ambulatory services and chief integration officer for Regional One Health in Memphis, engages seminar participants during her keynote June 8. The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing joined with the Tennessee Action Coalition to host an Emerging Nurse Leader seminar, “Nurses Leading Change Towards a Culture of…
