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Curb Center names Creative Campus grant recipients
September 14, 2012
Creativity. Innovation. Change. The Curb Center at Vanderbilt is pleased to announce the winners of its signature Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program, which provides Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students the opportunity to produce original ideas, experiment and innovate in the classroom, and harness their creativity as a force for positive social change.
LifeFlight adds cars to community bases to assist local EMS agencies
September 6, 2012
Vanderbilt LifeFlight is adding a new response vehicle to its fleet, one that will assist local emergency service agencies on days that the helicopter can’t fly due to unfavorable weather conditions. A “Critical Care Response” car will be placed at each of the five LifeFlight helicopter community bases for the critical care medical teams to…
Donaldson named DNP program director
August 30, 2012
Terri Donaldson, DNP, MSN, has been named director of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. For the past year, she has served as co-director with Donna McArthur, Ph.D., MSN, who will continue as faculty in the DNP program that she helped develop. “Donna did a wonderful job launching our Doctor of…
Record number receive Nursing professional pins
August 9, 2012
The largest group of students in Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s history received their professional pins of Nursing at a ceremony held Sunday at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in downtown Nashville. VUSN Dean Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., CNM, awarded pins to 326 students before a crowd of more than 2,000 friends and family members who…
Middle Tennessee woman helps lead midwife movement
July 25, 2012
A Middle Tennessee woman remains at the forefront of a movement that encourages women to give birth with the aid of midwives. Ina May Gaskin is a founding member of The Farm, a former commune in Summertown, about 90 miles from Nashville. Over the past several decades, she and her team of midwives have delivered more…
VU study finds stress fuels breast cancer metastasis to bone
July 18, 2012
Stress can promote breast cancer cell colonization of bone, Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biologyinvestigators have discovered. The studies, reported July 17 in PLoS Biology, demonstrate in mice that activation of the sympathetic nervous system – the “fight-or-flight” response to stress – primes the bone environment for breast cancer cell metastasis. The researchers were able to…
VUSN’s Moore-Davis to attend NIH’s Summer Genetics Institute
June 14, 2012
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing instructor Tonia Moore-Davis, CNM, MSN, has been selected to attend the National Institute of Nursing Research Summer Genetics Institute (SGI) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., this June. The SGI is designed to provide a foundation in molecular genetics to use in future research, clinical practice and…
Jessee named VUSN PreSpecialty director
June 14, 2012
6/14/2012 – Mary Ann Jessee, MSN, R.N., has been named Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Pre-Specialty director. She had been serving as interim director of the program since last August. VUSN’s prespecialty program enrolls approximately 150 students each academic year. The students already hold bachelor’s degrees in fields other than nursing. They participate in three semesters…
VUSN project helps get children ready for kindergarten
June 8, 2012
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing students, working in partnership with the Martha O’Bryan Center, United Neighborhood Health Services (UNHS) and Kirkpatrick Elementary School, developed a pilot project to increase awareness and improve access for children in the Cayce Place community who need to register for kindergarten.
Q+A: An Interview with Trish Trangenstein
April 18, 2012
What does the term “nursing informatics” mean? Nursing informatics is a specialty recognized by the American Nurses’ Association. Nursing informatics transforms electronic information into knowledge and eventually knowledge into wisdom needed to improve outcomes. Nursing outcomes can only be improved if you can apply wisdom across any number of areas, and a person needs advanced…
