Alumni
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VUSN honors talent, brainpower, service of 2024 Alumni Award winners
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreNov. 15, 2024
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VUSN to host Nurses Month panel
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreMay. 13, 2024
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Nominations for 2024 VUSN Alumni Awards sought
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreMar. 15, 2024
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School of Nursing recognizes alumni and friends for health care and education excellence
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreDec. 4, 2023
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School of Nursing honors outstanding alumni and friends for accomplishment, service and impact
The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Alumni Association recognized 11 alumni and friends for their extraordinary work during the recent 2022 Reunion State of the School Address and Awards Ceremony. Read MoreOct. 18, 2022
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VUSN celebrates 2022 Reunion in person
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreAug. 25, 2022
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School of Nursing celebrates program completion with formal pinning ceremony
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreAug. 25, 2022
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We're celebrating Nurses Month!
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreApr. 28, 2022
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Colleen Moss named Neonatal Nurse Practitioner academic director
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreDec. 15, 2021
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Once a Nurse: Community of Nurses Continues in Retirement
At a retirement center nestled in the hills of Nashville, a cadre of Vanderbilt nurses have built a community within a community. No single career experience connects them—they’ve been war nurses, flight nurses, ER nurses and floor nurses, as well as teachers, researchers and administrators. Their relationships are woven through their vast web of experience, with their love of nursing at the hub. “Nurses always find each other,” says Charlotte Covington, BSN’69, MSN’89, associate professor of nursing, emerita. Read MoreNov. 30, 2021
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Class Notes
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreNov. 23, 2021
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VUSN DNP Alumna, Dina Velocci, Begins Term as President of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreAug. 25, 2021
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VUSN DNP and MSN Alumna, Melissa Stec, Joins Wilson Health Medical Group ObGyn practice (OH)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJun. 27, 2021
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Saluting the Impact of Nurses on the Nation's Health During Nurses Month
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreMay. 3, 2021
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VUSN Alumna, Heather Mantsch, CNP, Joins Range Mental Health Center (MN) as Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreApr. 1, 2021
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VUSN Alumna, Jeaninne Blackwell, PMHNP-BC, Appointed Leader in new Collaborative Psych Evaluation and Medication Management Services
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreMar. 12, 2021
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VUSN Alumna, Camille Legeay Cook, has died
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreMar. 8, 2021
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John Dowlen, VUSN FNP Alumnus, hired at CHI Memorial Medical Group (TN)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreMar. 4, 2021
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In the thick of it: COVID fighters with the Navajo Nation
Vanderbilt alumni Annie Moon, MSN’03, and Dr. Jill Moses, MD’91, confront a continuing COVID-19 crisis as they deliver health care to the Navajo Nation Read MoreFeb. 23, 2021
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It takes a team: Lessons from inside Vanderbilt's COVID-19 unit
Vanderbilt Hospital tapped a team of experienced nurse practitioners to set up and provide care in its COVID-19 unit. They, along with the rest of the unit professionals, are still at it after nearly a year of what one describes as probably the hardest months of any of their professional lives. Read MoreFeb. 23, 2021
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Alumni named fellows in American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and American Academy of Nursing
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreFeb. 23, 2021
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Ginna Corts, BSN'70, MSN'73, one of VUSN's first FNPs, has died
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreFeb. 19, 2021
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Rosemark Women Care Specialists (ID) adds Maddie Harris, VUSN MN-FNP Alumna, to delivery team
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreFeb. 4, 2021
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VUSN MSN Alumna, Alisa Haushalter, named Communicator of the Year for 2020 in Shelby County (TN)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJan. 28, 2021
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Franklin community leaders create scholarship fund in honor of late Alderman and VUSN MSN alumna Pearl Bransford
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreDec. 10, 2020
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Get to know VUSN MSN Alumna, Erin Stultz Castellano
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreDec. 9, 2020
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Six Vanderbilt School of Nursing alumni named fellows by American Academy of Nursing
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreOct. 27, 2020
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School of Nursing alumni send students encouragement along with masks
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreAug. 21, 2020
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Sew for a student: A Vanderbilt Nursing way to help COVID-19 efforts
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreMay. 27, 2020
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Alumnus to lead Michigan efforts to improve health care for people of color
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreMar. 2, 2020
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VUSN MSN Alumna, Deana Clapper, assists with Donate Life Rose Parade float
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJan. 9, 2020
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School of Nursing faculty inducted as American Academy of Nursing fellows
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreOct. 28, 2019
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VUSN MSN Alumna, Suzanne McMurtry Baird, announced as member of 2020 AWHONN Board of Directors
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreOct. 23, 2019
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VUSN MSN Alumna, Morgan Willbarger, joins Riverside Medical Group (IL)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreSep. 23, 2019
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VUSN MSN Alumna, Kim Hanna, named named Dean of Whitson-Hester School of Nursing (TN)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreSep. 17, 2019
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VUSN PMC Alumna, Georgianna Coon, named hospitalist at Cabinet Peaks Medical Center (MT)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreAug. 6, 2019
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Q&A with VUSN DNP and MSN Alumna, Trish Baise, CEO of new Ballad Behavioral Services Division (TN)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreAug. 2, 2019
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VUSN MSN Nurse Midwifery Alumna, Natima Alexander, joins Goshen Birth Center (IN)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJul. 30, 2019
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VUSN MSN Alumna, Ashley Ritter, providing women's health services in New River Health District (VA)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJul. 28, 2019
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VUSN MSN Alumna, Amanda McClure, announced as certified nurse practitioner at Mercy Clinic Endocrinology (MO)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJul. 21, 2019
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VUSN DNP Alumna, Kimberly Hatchel, named new Chief Nursing Officer at Blake Medical Center (FL)
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJul. 16, 2019
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Professor Emerita Joyce Laben has died
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Professor Emerita Joyce Laben has died. A celebration of her life was celebrated on Wednesay, July 10, at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens Funeral Home, 9090 TN-100, Nashville, TN 37221. Read her obituary in The Tennessean. Read MoreJul. 15, 2019
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Chattanooga's hospitals struggling with shortage of nurses
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJul. 13, 2019
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VUSN Has Lost a Nursing Icon: Celebration of Life for Joyce Laben
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJul. 8, 2019
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VUSN DNP Alumna, Margaret Taylor, discusses what moms-to-be learn from each other through group prenatal care
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJul. 7, 2019
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VUSN FNP Alumnus, Daniel Ferguson, joins Bolivar Family Health Care Center
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJul. 3, 2019
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VUSN FNP Alumnus, John Killgore, joins Halifax County health department
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJun. 27, 2019
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VUSN MSN Alumnus, Tom Bush, presents at 2019 AANP annual meeting
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJun. 25, 2019
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VUSN FNP Alumna, Chelsia Harris, named Lipscomb University School of Nursing executive director
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJun. 20, 2019
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VUSN MSN Alumna, Carol Seeger, returns to Oswego Health to deliver care at behavioral health services unit
L, Dean Pam Jeffries, award recipient Julia Phillippi and Alumni Board President Ekom Essien. Vanderbilt School of Nursing honored its 2024 Alumni Award winners for their talent, brainpower and service in the world of nursing during its Reunion weekend, Nov. 7-10. Award recipients were nominated by fellow alumni, students, faculty… Read MoreJun. 15, 2019