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    Important information about Vanderbilt's response to COVID-19

    Vanderbilt University has moved to alternative and online education for the rest of the semester. Full information, updates and resources are available at vanderbilt.edu/coronavirus. Please reach out with any and all questions to covid-questions@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

    Mar. 20, 2020

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    Alumnus testifies in support of mental health care workforce shortage bill

    Vanderbilt University has moved to alternative and online education for the rest of the semester. Full information, updates and resources are available at vanderbilt.edu/coronavirus. Please reach out with any and all questions to covid-questions@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

    Mar. 4, 2020

  • Gold Vanderbilt logo next to headshot of VUSN alumnus Randy Rasch

    Alumnus to lead Michigan efforts to improve health care for people of color

    Vanderbilt University has moved to alternative and online education for the rest of the semester. Full information, updates and resources are available at vanderbilt.edu/coronavirus. Please reach out with any and all questions to covid-questions@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

    Mar. 2, 2020

  • Vanderbilt Martin Luther King Jr. Award winners and guest speaker Phyllis Sharps hold plaques, while Dr. Andre Churchwell and Dean Linda Norman flank them

    VUSN faculty Hudson and Starks honored with MLK Award at annual lecture

    Two Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty received the annual Martin Luther King Jr. award presented by VUSN and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine during the 2020 MLK Commemorative Lecture on Monday. Assistant Professors Tamika Hudson, DNP, MSN’12, and Jannyse Starks, DNP’11, MSN,’09 were honored for their work with the Community Action Poverty Simulation, which helps students, faculty, staff and community leaders experience life in poverty through a planned simulation. School of Medicine Assistant Professor Adriana Bialostozky, MD, was also honored, receiving the MLK award for her work in providing culturally competent care in pediatrics. Read More

    Jan. 23, 2020

  • Four women in business attire, with two holding large glass engraved awards. The women are Left, AACN President and CEO Deb Trautman, April Kapu, Linda Norman and AACN Board Chair Ann Cary.

    School of Nursing and VUMC receive national New Era for Academic Nursing Award

    Vanderbilt University has moved to alternative and online education for the rest of the semester. Full information, updates and resources are available at vanderbilt.edu/coronavirus. Please reach out with any and all questions to covid-questions@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

    Nov. 6, 2019

  • VUSN faculty with award certificate. NLN officials are on either end and in the center of the photo.

    School of Nursing designated Center of Excellence (News Around the School)

    The National League for Nursing has named Vanderbilt University School of Nursing an NLN Center of Excellence in recognition of its high standards of educational excellence and visionary leadership. Read More

    Nov. 5, 2019

  • Margaret Taylor

    VUSN DNP Alumna, Margaret Taylor, discusses what moms-to-be learn from each other through group prenatal care

    Vanderbilt University has moved to alternative and online education for the rest of the semester. Full information, updates and resources are available at vanderbilt.edu/coronavirus. Please reach out with any and all questions to covid-questions@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

    Jul. 7, 2019

  • 2019 Founders Medalists in caps, gowns and hoods at Vanderbilt

    Brooke Faught, DNP, named 2019 Founder's Medalist

    The 2019 Founder’s Medalist for the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing was already a successful entrepreneur, institute director and nurse practitioner before earning her doctor of nursing practice. During her two-year doctor of nursing practice program at VUSN, Brooke Faught worked 60+ hours a week as director of the Women’s Institute for Sexual Health. The mother of three daughters (one with special needs), Brooke also volunteered in the community, gave professional presentations and served on the executive board of directors for two different professional organizations. Her DNP project focused on ways that providers might help young women with Down syndrome receive relevant and appropriate sexuality education. Read More

    May. 10, 2019

  • Ernest Grant

    ANA President to give May 13 VUSN Dean’s Diversity Lecture

    Vanderbilt University has moved to alternative and online education for the rest of the semester. Full information, updates and resources are available at vanderbilt.edu/coronavirus. Please reach out with any and all questions to covid-questions@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

    May. 3, 2019

  • Mary Jo Gilmer with dog

    Vanderbilt Nursing professor launches study on therapy animals and children with cancer

    Vanderbilt University has moved to alternative and online education for the rest of the semester. Full information, updates and resources are available at vanderbilt.edu/coronavirus. Please reach out with any and all questions to covid-questions@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

    Apr. 26, 2019