Making an Impact
The International Year of the Nurse and Midwife was planned to be a celebration of nursing accomplishments and recognition for the nursing profession but quickly turned into a real-world demonstration of impact, nursing knowledge, accomplishment and necessity.
From caring for COVID-19 patients, often at risk to their own health, to setting up testing, and later, vaccine clinics, nurses were—are—on the frontlines of what may prove to be the worst health crisis of the 21st century. The pandemic affected all nursing professionals. Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty pivoted to teach students in virtual settings, spearheaded clinical innovations such as expanded telehealth and nurse-on-call programs, studied pandemic responses and best practices, and provided leadership locally, regionally, nationally and globally. They also continued scholarly and research activities.
The following pages represent select accomplishments by VUSN nurse scientists, educators and leaders in the academic and scientific arenas from the past year.
We hope you find it interesting and informative.
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Selected Works & Accomplishments
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Asthma and absenteeism
March 12, 2018
During the past school year, Napier Enhanced Option Elementary School in Nashville had the second largest population of elementary school-aged children with asthma in the district. The ranking is one that Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) Assistant Professor Natasha McClure, MSN’11, DNP, CPNP, knows she cannot change. So she wants to do the next…
Experts of Normal
October 30, 2015
After co-authoring a landmark study demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of birth center care, Cara Osborne, SD, CNM, took the data published in the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health (JMWH) in 2013 one step further. She put the findings right into practice. With the help of a financial backer, Osborne opened a birth center…
Q+A: An Interview with Terri Donaldson
November 5, 2013
Vanderbilt Nurse recently sat down with Terri Donaldson, DNP, RN, ACNP-BC, director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program. Donaldson has nearly 30 years of experience in cardiac and critical care nursing, has been on faculty since 2001, and became the DNP program director in 2012. She shares why the DNP is one of the…
