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New Vanderbilt Bass Military Scholars Program supports veterans at School of Nursing
September 21, 2018
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is one of five Vanderbilt graduate schools to participate in the new Bass Military Scholars Program, an initiative that will provide financial aid and programming support for honorably discharged U.S. military veterans. The program is funded by a new $25 million gift from the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation and…
School of Nursing named AAMN Best School for Men
September 20, 2018
The American Association for Men in Nursing has named Vanderbilt University School of Nursing an AAMN Best School of Nursing. The honor recognizes a nursing school for significant efforts in recruiting and retaining men in the nursing profession. In informing VUSN of the honor, the AAMN wrote: The Recognition Review Committee has completed the review…
Construction to close 21st Ave. S sidewalk through Sept. 28
September 20, 2018
The sidewalk in front of the School of Nursing will be closed through Friday, Sept. 28, from the steps between Frist Hall and the Heard Library to the entrance of Godchaux Hall by MRB III. It should reopen Monday, Oct. 3. Pedestrians should use the Wesley Place/University School of Nashville side of 21st Avenue S….
Recent School of Nursing Recognitions and Honors
August 17, 2018
Faculty and students in the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing have recently been recognized for career accomplishments, research, scholarship and leadership. Student Kaitlyn McGowen, right with patient Roger Conrad, has been named a Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions fellow. Other recent honors include:
Alumna came to Vanderbilt as a teenager and never left — until now
August 15, 2018
Patty Hofstetter, BSN’77, RN, CPHQ, recently retired as Senior Quality and Safety Advisor for Vanderbilt University Medical Center after 41 years as a nurse. She came to Vanderbilt as a teenager and never left. When she started as a nurse in 1977, there were only two Medical Center buildings – the old Vanderbilt University Hospital…
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…
