COVID-19

  • School of Nursing carved in limestone arch

    University announces new vaccine requirements and protocols for masking, gatherings and activities

    Following revised  CDC recommendations  indicating that fully vaccinated people  no longer need to wear masks or physically distance, Vanderbilt University today announced it is modifying many  COVID-19 protocols surrounding masking, gathering size, off-campus activities and campus visits. Additionally, the university will require … Read More

    May. 25, 2021

  • Seven people in safety vests and masks pose with professor Jennifer Wilbeck in front of Nissan Stadium

    Vanderbilt students, staff and faculty volunteer at mass COVID-19 vaccination event

    Following revised  CDC recommendations  indicating that fully vaccinated people  no longer need to wear masks or physically distance, Vanderbilt University today announced it is modifying many  COVID-19 protocols surrounding masking, gathering size, off-campus activities and campus visits. Additionally, the university will require … Read More

    Mar. 25, 2021

  • Stacey Bruff and Sherri Randolph on their wedding day in the VUMC COVID unit

    Tears of joy, tears of sorrow — College sweethearts, a COVID unit wedding, and a love story that ended too soon

    The first week of October, 2020, Vanderbilt School of Nursing alumna Sherri Randolph, MSN'97, planned to marry her college sweetheart, Stacey Bruff. As things turned out, Sherri and Stacey got married a few days earlier, Sept. 21, in the only wedding ever to take place in the COVID unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Tragically and unexpectedly, Stacey died two days after the wedding. Sherri was devastated, and she still has a hard time talking about Stacey without tears welling up. There is a lot of sadness about how things turned out. She knows that all over the world there are millions of lives that have been changed forever by the COVID-19 pandemic, and hers is one of them. So, this is a story rooted in the devastation of the pandemic. But don’t lose sight of this: it is still a love story. Read More

    Mar. 16, 2021

  • woman wearing mask

    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 More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Vanderbilt Nurse in PPE

    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 More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Terrah Akard stands in front of trees and plants

    Can virtual songwriting help seriously ill children and their families?

    Following revised  CDC recommendations  indicating that fully vaccinated people  no longer need to wear masks or physically distance, Vanderbilt University today announced it is modifying many  COVID-19 protocols surrounding masking, gathering size, off-campus activities and campus visits. Additionally, the university will require … Read More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Zoom video grid with four people appearing. Clockwise from top left: Randy Tarkington, Andrea George, GL Black and Pam Jones

    "The tightest team that's never met" keeps VU running during pandemic

    They’ve been working together, side by side—or, rather, screen by screen—seven days a week for months to keep a bustling urban campus with thousands of active students, faculty, researchers and staff open and running in the midst of a pandemic. Andrea George, MS’94, PhD’07, director of environmental health and safety for the university, and Pam Jones, BSN’81, MSN’92, DNP’13, senior associate dean for clinical and community partnerships at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, are co-commanders of the university’s Public Health Central Command Center. They were instrumental in developing and leading Vanderbilt’s ambitious and successful Return to Campus Plan. Read More

    Jan. 26, 2021

  • Cellphone showing app for contract tracing for COVID 19 next to a face mask

    Paid opportunity to help VU with contact tracing

    Following revised  CDC recommendations  indicating that fully vaccinated people  no longer need to wear masks or physically distance, Vanderbilt University today announced it is modifying many  COVID-19 protocols surrounding masking, gathering size, off-campus activities and campus visits. Additionally, the university will require … Read More

    Jan. 7, 2021

  • Specialty Block Update 12/14/20

    Specialty Block Update 12/14/20

    Following revised  CDC recommendations  indicating that fully vaccinated people  no longer need to wear masks or physically distance, Vanderbilt University today announced it is modifying many  COVID-19 protocols surrounding masking, gathering size, off-campus activities and campus visits. Additionally, the university will require … Read More

    Dec. 15, 2020

  • VUSN exterior

    Combating COVID-19 pandemic: Vanderbilt seeing uptick in nursing program enrollment

    Following revised  CDC recommendations  indicating that fully vaccinated people  no longer need to wear masks or physically distance, Vanderbilt University today announced it is modifying many  COVID-19 protocols surrounding masking, gathering size, off-campus activities and campus visits. Additionally, the university will require … Read More

    Dec. 10, 2020