Vanderbilt Nurse News Category
Year in review 2010: Additions, promotions bolster leadership team
December 21, 2010
12/16/2010 – Jill Austin, MBA, chief marketing officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was named assistant vice chancellor for Strategic Marketing and chief marketing officer in July. Since assuming responsibility for all marketing functions at VUMC last summer, Austin and her team have continued to build upon Vanderbilt’s position as the preferred health care provider in…
Year in review 2010: A year of achievements, discoveries
December 21, 2010
12/16/2010 – Editor’s note — the following is a chronological roundup of the news that made headlines at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2010. Program in Drug Discovery A $10 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health in March established Vanderbilt’s Program in Drug Discovery as a National Cooperative Drug Discovery and Development Group…
VUMC prepared to thrive in era of health reform
December 15, 2010
BY: PAUL GOVERN Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., discusses health reform at Tuesday’s Leadership Assembly in Langford Auditorium. (photo by Anne Rayner) 12/09/2010 – Going forward, the federal government’s efforts to reduce the nation’s budget deficit will likely spell a decline in reimbursement rates for health care services. This is at least what the nation’s savvy health…
Hydrotherapy tub helps ease labor’s pain
December 6, 2010
By: Nancy Humphrey 12/02/2010 – In the early stages of labor, expectant mothers are often told to soak in a warm tub at home — an effective way to relieve both the contractions and back pain during labor. In the tub, the weight of the baby is lifted off the mother’s back by the water’s buoyancy….
From labs to libraries, Nashville’s colleges share resources
November 23, 2010
By Jennifer Brooks • THE TENNESSEAN • November 13, 2010 Vanderbilt is a teaching hospital for more than just its own students. There’s a social work major from Tennessee State University taking a patient’s medical history. A graduate student in Lipscomb University’s College of Pharmacy checks prescriptions, while a Vanderbilt University medical student shadows a…
Hereford Society to help ease debt burden of nursing students
November 23, 2010
by Kathy Rivers Helping nursing students reduce their debt load was the top priority at the Julia Hereford Society committee meeting last week. With the average debt of a nursing student exceeding $80,000, the group wants to provide scholarships to reduce the burden of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing students. The society is named for…
