Posts Tagged ‘FNP’
Memorial service for longtime faculty Virginia George set for Oct. 8
September 21, 2018
A memorial service for Virginia Maxwell George, BSN’47, MS’72, CFNC, will be Monday, Oct. 8, at the School of Nursing. The memorial in celebration of her life will be at 4:30 p.m. in the Nursing Annex, Room 155. Attendees are encouraged to bring photographs or remembrances to share. RSVP George, professor of nursing, emerita, and…
VUSN MSN Alum, Tenecia Lancaster, joins Summit Medical in Surgoinsville, TN
August 28, 2018
Tenecia Lancaster has joined Summit Medical Group in Surgoinsville, TN, as a family nurse practitioner with a special interest in family care. She earned her MSN from VUSN in 2016 with a family nurse practitioner concentration. While at Vanderbilt, she was a recipient of several honors, including the Kathleen Suzanne Nelson scholarship, Lettie Pate Whitehead…
Virginia George, longtime faculty and originator of VUSN’s family nurse practitioner program, dies
August 1, 2018
Virginia Maxwell George, BSN’47, MS’72, CFNC, professor of nursing, emerita, and an early champion of nurse practitioners, died of natural causes on July 26 in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 94. George was founding director of Vanderbilt’s Family Nurse Practitioner Program, one of the first in the Southeast. A 1947 VUSN graduate, she taught at Vanderbilt…
VUSN MSN Alumn, Lindsey S. Cunningham, FNP-BC Featured in the Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare
May 16, 2018
The International Nurses Association is pleased to welcome Lindsey S. Cunningham, FNP-BC to their prestigious organization with her upcoming publication in the Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare. Lindsey S. Cunningham is an established Family Nurse Practitioner who continues to provide exceptional care and support to her patients within Fast Pace Urgent Care Waverly in Waverly, Tennessee….
VUSN rises in “U.S. News & World Report” 2019 graduate school rankings
March 20, 2018
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has again been named one of the nation’s “Best Graduate Schools” in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings. The School of Nursing’s Master of Nursing Science program moved up to No. 14 from No. 15 and its Doctor of Nursing Practice program continued as the No. 11 ranked…
Work with Doctors Without Borders inspires, impacts 2017 alumnus
February 20, 2018
Family Nurse Practitioner Saman Perera, MSN’17, fights health care inequality through Doctors Without Borders. Originally from Hendersonville, Tennessee, Perera recently moved to Knoxville after coming back from a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) two-month medical mission trip to Bentiu, South Sudan.
