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New Dean’s Advisory Board formed for School of Nursing
October 31, 2019
Corporate executives, chief nursing officers, entrepreneurs, nursing school deans, alumni and community representatives are among the leaders sharing their expertise on a new advisory board for Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, FAAN, announced the formation of the board during the school’s Reunion events October 17-19. The VUSN Dean’s Advisory Board…
Friends of National Library of Medicine honors School of Nursing’s Betsy Weiner
October 30, 2019
Betsy Weiner, PhD, FACMI, FAAN, Senior Associate Dean for Informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, was honored by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine with its Nursing Informatics award during the organization’s recent 2019 Annual Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C. Weiner, the Centennial Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing and professor of…
School of Nursing faculty inducted as American Academy of Nursing fellows
October 28, 2019
Pam Orebaugh Jones, DNP’13, MSN’92, BSN’81; April Kapu, DNP’13, MSN’05; and Jennifer Ezell Wilbeck, DNP, PMC’06, MSN’99; were inducted as fellows of the American Academy of Nursing on October 26. The formal event took place during the Academy’s annual policy conference in Washington, D.C. Jones is Vanderbilt University School of Nursing senior associate dean for clinical and…
New faculty member Mulubrhan Mogos researches heart-healthy pregnancies
October 24, 2019
Early in his career, as Assistant Professor of Nursing Mulubrhan Mogos cared for fragile babies in a neonatal ICU, he questioned whether the mother’s experience during pregnancy and delivery could provide clues to what went wrong, setting him on a path to study the long-term impact of cardiovascular disease on mothers and babies.
Q&A with VUSN’s Patricia Sengstack on nurses and tech
October 3, 2019
In a recent interview with HealthTech Magazine, Patricia Sengtack, VUSN Director, Nursing Informatics Specialty, warned against purchasing new tech equipment without consulting the nurses who will use it. Sengstack also discussed how nurses and other staff should be part of tech equipment purchasing decisions that can directly affect their work.
Professor Susie Adams named Psychiatric Nurse of the Year
September 24, 2019
by Matt Batcheldor Susie Adams, PhD, FAANP, FAAN, professor of Nursing at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has been named 2019 Psychiatric Nurse of the Year by the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA). The award will be presented Oct. 2 at the annual APNA convention in New Orleans. APNA is the largest organization of…
