Vanderbilt Nurse News Category
Photo Gallery: Reunion
April 28, 2011
Nursing school alumni, including several Quinqs, joined the annual Reunion Celebration
Rewriting How Nursing Students Learn
April 23, 2011
by Leslie Hill Everything in health care is constantly evolving, including how students are taught and faculty are trained. From the virtual world of Second Life to a comprehensive new approach to interprofessional learning, we’re erasing the old chalkboard and rewriting nursing education for the 21st Century. A New World The sweatpants-clad nursing student winds…
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…
What is JHS?
April 23, 2011
Helping nursing students reduce their debt load is the top priority of the Julia Hereford Society. With an average debt load for $68,000 for 2010 VUSN graduates, the group wants to provide scholarships to reduce the burden of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing students. Named for former VUSN Dean Julia Hereford, the society members include…
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…
