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School Gets Loan Forgiveness Grant
November 5, 2013
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has received a $427,499 award from the Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) grants for 2013-14. This is the 10th consecutive year that VUSN has received the grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The grants are designed to help ease a…
DNP Program Earns Accreditation
November 5, 2013
The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program has been awarded initial accreditation from the American Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) for five years, through Spring 2018. This comes after a yearlong self-study and site visit process. “This is tremendous news for the school, our faculty and most importantly, our students,”…
Schorn Named Senior Associate Dean for Academics
November 5, 2013
Mavis Schorn, PhD, CNM, has been named senior associate dean for Academics at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She has served as assistant dean for Academics for the past three years while maintaining an active clinical practice at West End Women’s Health Center. “Mavis is the ideal person for this position. She is a gifted…
Spotlight on Nursing Research//Rapid Response Team Sustainability
November 5, 2013
Incoming Veterans Administration Quality Scholar Deonni Stolldorf, PhD, MSN, RN, is passionate about innovation in health care. She’s been interested in medicine since she was a child growing up in South Africa. She was a high achiever with good grades who applied to medical school at a time when very few women were admitted, and,…
Congratulations to Senior Associate Dean Betsy Weiner elected to Institute of Medicine
October 21, 2013
Vanderbilt University’s Betsy Weiner, Ph.D., R.N., senior associate dean for Informatics in the School of Nursing, and Mark Frisse, M.D., MS, MBA, Accenture Professor and director of Regional Informatics, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the organization announced this week.
Travis family’s Vanderbilt legacy grows
September 5, 2013
He was a successful, self-made businessman, and she was a pioneering nurse, but the many professional accomplishments of Nancy and Hilliard Travis were eclipsed only by their ongoing generosity to the community, especially their beloved Vanderbilt. The most recent example is a generous gift to the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing for student scholarships, and…
Pinning ceremony celebrates VUSN students
August 8, 2013
Nearly 300 Vanderbilt University School of Nursing students received their professional pins of Nursing at a ceremony held Sunday at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in downtown Nashville. Together, VUSN Dean Linda Norman, DSN, MSN, and VUSN Dean Emerita Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., CNM, awarded pins to 281 students before a crowd of more than 2,000…
VIGH Announces Nurses in Residence for Central Province of Kenya
July 12, 2013
The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health is pleased to award the first Global Health Nurse in Residence positions to Grace Appert and Laine Scott-Nelson. There were selected from an impressive group of nineteen applicants representing a wide range of employed nurses, nurse practitioners and soon-to-be graduates.
Schorn named to key post at VUSN
July 11, 2013
Mavis Schorn, Ph.D., CNM, has been named senior associate dean for Academics at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She has served as assistant dean for Academics for the past three years while maintaining an active clinical practice at West End Women’s Health Center.
New service helps patients keep glucose levels on track
July 11, 2013
Following her successful heart valve surgery at Vanderbilt, Gwendolyn English and her family faced a long journey home to Florida. Her family was concerned about the trip, because English has diabetes and her blood sugar levels had been fluctuating erratically. “We were really worried about the drive home. She could go unconscious or get very…
