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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

If you’re a member of the team caring for patients in the COVID-19 unit at Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital, you get to work by crossing from the main building to the Medical Center East North Tower via a sky bridge, whose big windows frame views of the Nashville skyline. Read More

Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, School of Nursing postdoctoral fellow James Muchira designed a study to examine the relationship between maternal cardiovascular health and early childhood obesity and arterial stiffness in 1- to 5-year-old children. He altered his recruitment and data collection protocols to prioritize the safety of the participants and research personnel when he returned to the lab through Vanderbilt's Research Ramp-up process. Read More

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

If you’re a member of the team caring for patients in the COVID-19 unit at Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital, you get to work by crossing from the main building to the Medical Center East North Tower via a sky bridge, whose big windows frame views of the Nashville skyline. Read More

If you’re a member of the team caring for patients in the COVID-19 unit at Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital, you get to work by crossing from the main building to the Medical Center East North Tower via a sky bridge, whose big windows frame views of the Nashville skyline. Read More

If you’re a member of the team caring for patients in the COVID-19 unit at Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital, you get to work by crossing from the main building to the Medical Center East North Tower via a sky bridge, whose big windows frame views of the Nashville skyline. Read More

If you’re a member of the team caring for patients in the COVID-19 unit at Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital, you get to work by crossing from the main building to the Medical Center East North Tower via a sky bridge, whose big windows frame views of the Nashville skyline. Read More

When in-person research activities at Vanderbilt were put on hold in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sheila Ridner, PhD'03, MSN'00, FAAN, the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of Nursing and director of the PhD in Nursing Science Program, was the primary investigator on two research studies with oncology patients. “The participants in the lymphedema prevention study had given us five years of their lives, and so we also felt an ethical responsibility to finish our work in supporting them,” Ridner said. Read More

If you’re a member of the team caring for patients in the COVID-19 unit at Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital, you get to work by crossing from the main building to the Medical Center East North Tower via a sky bridge, whose big windows frame views of the Nashville skyline. Read More