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VUSN NP student Daniel Reyes receives DiversityNursing.com Education Award

June 6, 2023

May 30 — DiversityNursing.com announced Daniel Reyes, a VUSN Acute Care NP student, as winner of the annual $5,000 Education Award. Reyes started his health care journey in the military and hopes to help underserved populations in community health when he graduates. Read the full story at https://blog.diversitynursing.com/2023-education-award-winner

Genomics course for doctoral nursing faculty seeks participants

June 6, 2023

Nursing faculty interested in learning how to incorporate genomic content into their curricula, practice and scholarship are invited to apply for the Translation and Integration of Genomics is Essential to Doctoral NuRsing (TIGER) program.   TIGER, a two-part program which begins in January 2024, is led by Principal Investigator Laurie Connors, PhD(c), DNP, FAANP, FAAN, professor of…

Vanderbilt joins TSU, Meharry and the Congregational Health and Education Network on $4M NIH grant to address social factors in health

January 12, 2022

Sharon Jones, assistant professor of nursing, and David G. Schlundt, associate professor of psychology, are participating in a collaborative research project to address health disparities and advance health equity in Nashville. The five-year project—Engaging Partners in Caring Communities (EPICC): Building capacity to implement health promotion programs in African American churches—is being supported by a $4 million National Institutes of Health grant through…

Health experts to discuss COVID Perspectives & Vaccination Hesitancy

January 11, 2022

The School of Nursing Diversity and Inclusion committee will host a webinar on Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m. CST to discuss “COVID Perspectives, Values and Vaccination Hesitancy.” A panel of public health and prevention experts will  discuss the complexities of personal and professional communication with individuals who are hesitant or refuse to be vaccinated against…

VUSN spring 2022 semester starts Jan. 4; new health and safety protocols announced

December 30, 2021

Following Vanderbilt University’s announcement that undergraduate and most graduate schools would postpone the start of the spring 2022 semester until January 17, Dean Pamela Jeffries provided specific information for the School of Nursing. Highlights included the information that VUSN classes would start January 4 as previously scheduled, that staff would work remotely until January 18, and that most specialty program classes would start in hybrid/remote formats for the first few weeks of 2022. Read her message

CDC taps School of Nursing informaticist to analyze nation’s PPE supply

November 17, 2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding research led by Kelly Aldrich, DNP, FHIMSS, associate professor of nursing informatics, to analyze daily hospital personal protective equipment on-hand inventory to measure trends, patterns or statistically significant changes in PPE supply in the nation’s nearly 7,000 U.S. hospitals. The project will support the CDC’s National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory,…

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