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    New Vanderbilt Bass Military Scholars Program supports veterans at School of Nursing

    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… Read More

    Sep. 21, 2018

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    School of Nursing named AAMN Best School for Men

    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… Read More

    Sep. 20, 2018

  • VUSN Transformation in Progress

    Construction to close 21st Ave. S sidewalk through Sept. 28

    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… Read More

    Sep. 20, 2018

  • Roger Conrad, Kaitlyn McGowen

    Recent School of Nursing Recognitions and Honors

    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: Read More

    Aug. 17, 2018

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    Alumna came to Vanderbilt as a teenager and never left — until now

    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… Read More

    Aug. 15, 2018

  • Virginia George

    Virginia George, longtime faculty and originator of VUSN’s family nurse practitioner program, dies

    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… Read More

    Aug. 1, 2018

  • Nicole Mercer, Shauna Potts, Teresa Stewart

    Minority undergraduates explore nursing during VUSN summer programs

    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… Read More

    Jul. 28, 2018

  • Joanne Sonnenblick, Steven Sonnenblick, Dean Balaes, Kaitlyn McGowan

    Vanderbilt Law and Nursing student clinic provides seniors with advance care planning and legal documents

    Older adults who need advance care plans and health care/financial power of attorney documents can get them easily and free of charge thanks to a new interprofessional pilot project involving Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Vanderbilt Law School and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The pilot is underwritten by Nashville’s West End Home Foundation. The Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic ... Read More

    Jun. 28, 2018

  • Melissa Hilmes, Shannon Cole on VU campus

    VUSN Instructor, Shannon Cole, selected as Co-Director of VPIL

    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… Read More

    Jun. 12, 2018

  • Alumna Anna Froelich

    Alumna is on the frontline of the opioid epidemic in rural America

    Alumna Anna Froelich, MSN'17, is the lead provider in a Suboxone therapy program in Sierra Vista, AZ. Small clinics like hers are making inroads in treating the opioid epidemic in rural America. Read More

    Jun. 11, 2018

  • Alumnus Stuart Downs receives nursing excellence leadership award

    Alumnus Stuart Downs receives nursing excellence leadership award

    Stuart Downs, DNP'13, MSN’10, was honored with Atlanta's Executive Nursing Leadership Excellence Award last month at the area's Celebrating Nurses luncheon. The award recognizes a chief nursing officer or chief nursing executive serving in an administrative capacity in a Metro Atlanta hospital who demonstrates advocacy, vision and collaboration to improve patient care and the nursing workplace. Previously chief nursing officer and vice president, Downs is now chief operating officer and vice president of WellStar Atlanta Medical Center. Read More

    Jun. 5, 2018

  • Kathy Moss

    VUMC Five Pillar Leader Kathy Moss, MSN/MBA'97, "always dreamed of being a nurse"

    Kathy Moss. a VUSN alumna, remembers the days when she and her sister spent hours practicing running a doctor’s office. Their dolls and stuffed animals served as patients. Moss was recently honored with a Five Pillar Leader Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. VUMC Voice shares her story. Read More

    May. 31, 2018

  • Luke Gregory, Dean Linda Norman, Mitch Edgeworth

    School of Nursing recognizes faculty, staff, colleagues and honorary nurses

    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… Read More

    May. 24, 2018

  • Dean Linda Norman, Brenna Gillis, Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos

    Brenna Gillis, MSN, DNP, is 2018 VUSN Founder's Medalist

    The 2018 Founder’s Medalist for Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is Brenna Gillis, MSN’15, DNP. Gillis, who concluded her DNP work in August 2017, graduated with a 4.0 GPA — her second. Gillis is also an MSN alumna who earned a 4.0 in her master’s studies in 2015. Now a certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner, Gillis provides mental health services to children, adolescents and adults in Rutherford County. Read More

    May. 23, 2018

  • M_Mogos

    Diversity lecture on pregnancy and cardiovascular health set for June 4

    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… Read More

    May. 14, 2018

  • Dean Linda Norman, Judith Coffey, Ginny Moore, Leslie Hopkins

    Nursing Pinning ceremony marks program completion

    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… Read More

    May. 10, 2018

  • Assistant Dean Rolanda Johnson

    Assistant Dean Rolanda Johnson named Vanderbilt Pioneer

    Rolanda Johnson, PhD’98, associate professor and assistant dean for academics, was honored as a Vanderbilt Pioneer during a portrait unveiling at Vanderbilt’s Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center this month. The Vanderbilt Pioneers program salutes women and minorities who were the first in university leadership roles. Johnson was recognized as the first African American to hold a vice-chair position in Vanderbilt’s Faculty Senate and as the first African American assistant dean of academics at VUSN. Striking photographs of the honorees taken by Vanderbilt Professor of Philosophy Lucius Outlaw Jr. can be viewed at the center. Read More

    Apr. 27, 2018

  • Alumna Judith Lea and her grandchildren

    Alumna Judy Lea reflects on a career and life helping others

    After two years as an arts major, Judy Jackson Lea, BSN’69, set her sights on Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and never looked back. “By the second year I knew I loved maternal/child health with an interest in public health,” she said. Read more Read More

    Apr. 18, 2018

  • Natasha McClure

    Natasha McClure announced as the new faculty head of house for North House in The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons

    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… Read More

    Apr. 5, 2018

  • Little boy drawing a picture

    Nursing professor’s video wins advertising’s ADDY awards, heads to nationals

    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… Read More

    Mar. 29, 2018

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    VUSN rises in "U.S. News & World Report" 2019 graduate school rankings

    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… Read More

    Mar. 20, 2018

  • Saman Perera and child

    Work with Doctors Without Borders inspires, impacts 2017 alumnus

    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. Read More

    Feb. 20, 2018

  • Bill and Genie Moore, 1983

    A Vanderbilt Love Story

    A call in the night started a Vanderbilt University Medical Center doctor and a School of Nursing faculty member on a path to romance that's still as strong nearly three decades later. “She was really sweet and 34 years later, she’s still just as sweet,” Bill says. “It was meant to be,” Genie adds. A Valentine's story from VUMC Voice Read More

    Feb. 13, 2018

  • From the Tristar State to the Land of Eternal Spring: Vanderbilt and Guatemala

    From the Tristar State to the Land of Eternal Spring: Vanderbilt and Guatemala

    Vanderbilt School of Nursing MSN students and faculty head to Guatemala to work with a local clinic during spring break in March. Vanderbilt’s student newspaper, the Hustler, features that connection and others between Vanderbilt and Guatemala in an in-depth article. Read More

    Feb. 13, 2018

  • Dean Norman, Jessica McMillan, Terri Allison

    School of Nursing Nurse-Midwifery and DNP students pinned at program completion

    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… Read More

    Jan. 22, 2018

  • Cathy Ivory

    HIMSS and ANI honor Catherine Ivory with Nursing Informatics Leadership Award

    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… Read More

    Jan. 19, 2018

  • JonJon Huddleston and Swoosh

    Gilmer’s research about dogs helping children with cancer goes global, thanks to CNN

    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… Read More

    Jan. 8, 2018

  • Steven Welton, RN

    School of Nursing student saves baby born in back seat of car outside Medical Center East

    School of Nursing student Steven Welton, RN, will never forget the first baby he delivered. Welton took charge when Elijah Youssef was born unexpectedly in the back seat of his family’s Honda outside Medical Center East last week. Welton is halfway through VUSN’s ASN to MSN program for registered nurses who have associate degrees, but he’d never delivered a baby nor assisted in a delivery. Welton went beyond delivery, however — he actually saved Elijah’s life. Read the whole story in VUMC Voice. Read More

    Dec. 13, 2017

  • Jade Forlindas

    “My dream was to be a nurse, taking care of critically ill children”

    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… Read More

    Nov. 21, 2017

  • Brenda Morrow

    VUSN offers poverty simulation exercise as part of Nov. 10 conference

    Attendees to the "Cultivating the Scholar-Activist" conference to be held on campus Friday, Nov. 10, will have the opportunity to experience the eye-opening Community Action Poverty Simulation facilitated by two School of Nursing faculty. Registration is still open. Read More

    Nov. 6, 2017

  • Kameron Brainard, MSN'12, CNM, and patient

    VUSN-managed midwifery clinics add primary care for women

    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… Read More

    Oct. 31, 2017

  • Bethany Rhoten

    American Cancer Society funds VUSN researcher’s study of cancer survivors and sexuality

    When and in what manner do patients with head and neck canceer want to discuss the impact the disease may have on their sexuality? That’s one of the questions Assistant Professor Bethany Rhoten, Ph.D., R.N., will investigate through a Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center-administered pilot program from the American Cancer Society. Read More

    Sep. 26, 2017

  • Logo and Deonni Stolldorf

    School of Nursing researcher receives federal Career Development award

    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… Read More

    Sep. 25, 2017

  • Reed Sparta, Beth Sparta

    Daughter follows mother into nursing through VUMC Nursing Explorer program

    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… Read More

    Sep. 21, 2017

  • Danica Ninkovic

    APRN Emergency Medicine Fellowship created

    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… Read More

    Sep. 7, 2017

  • Clockwise from top left: Clare Sullivan, Linda Norman, Bonnie Pilon, Marty Conrad, Ken Wallston

    Retiring School of Nursing faculty lauded for commitment, change and engagement

    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… Read More

    Aug. 30, 2017

  • Milestone baby and mom

    Nurse-midwifery alumna Clare Storck catches milestone babies

    Clare Storck, MSN '10, was born to be a midwife of legend—and not just because of that name. “I’ve always loved babies and pregnant people,” Storck said. Read More

    Aug. 30, 2017

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    VUSN and VUMC researchers receive FAANP funding for Choosing Wisely collaborative study

    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… Read More

    Aug. 10, 2017

  • Cathy Maxwell

    Maxwell honored with National Hartford Center Award

    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… Read More

    Jul. 31, 2017

  • VUSN award winners 2017

    2017 School of Nursing awards recognize faculty, staff and VUSM’s Bernard

    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… Read More

    May. 24, 2017

  • Elizabeth Dow, Byrd Duncan, Linda Bell

    Alumni of famed Student Health Coalition hold panel discussion May 19

    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… Read More

    May. 16, 2017

  • Faculty Emeriti ceremony 2017

    Vanderbilt honors Bonnie Pilon and Ken Wallston as Faculty Emeriti

    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… Read More

    May. 15, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    NPT "Aging Matters" episode features VUSN dean

    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… Read More

    Apr. 24, 2017

  • Professor Mary Lambert, RADM Trent-Adams, Dean Linda Norman

    The U.S. Surgeon General is a nurse!

    Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams has just been named U.S. Surgeon General She is a perfect choice--and a friend of VUSN. We were fortunate to have her speak here in January. Congratulations, Surgeon General Trent-Adams. Read more Read More

    Apr. 24, 2017

  • Rumay Alexander

    National diversity expert speaks May 3 on going beyond rhetoric of equity and opportunity

    G. Rumay Alexander, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s interim chief diversity officer, will present a talk Wednesday, May 3, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Godchaux Nursing Annex, Room 161, in the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Lunch will be provided but requires an RSVP. Alexander, who is also professor and director of the Office of Inclusive Excellence at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing, will speak on “Equity of Opportunity: Beyond the Rhetoric.” Read More

    Apr. 20, 2017

  • Zeppos, Lauderdale, Dewey

    Jana Lauderdale receives university leadership award

    Jana Lauderdale, assistant dean for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Nursing, received the second Joseph A. Johnson, Jr. Distinguished Leadership Professor Award ever given by Vanderbilt University The honor recognizes faculty leadership in equity, diversity and inclusion in academic endeavors and was presented during Vanderbilts spring faculty assembly. "I am so very honored," Lauderdale said after receiving the award. "When you aren't expecting something and it happens--it makes you all the more appreciative and grateful." Read More

    Apr. 7, 2017

  • Jesse Ehrenfeld & Sarah Fogel

    VUSN offers inter-professional course in LGBTI health this summer

    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… Read More

    Apr. 4, 2017

  • VUSN alum Cristy Stumb making an impact

    VUSN alum Cristy Stumb making an impact

    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… Read More

    Apr. 4, 2017

  • Leslie Hopkins

    Leslie Hopkins attends SEC leadership development meeting

    Assistant Professor Leslie Welch Hopkins, one of Vanderbilt's SEC Academic Leadership Development Program fellows for 2016-17, visited Mississippi State University Feb. 22-24 for a series of workshops designed to help prepare the SEC fellows for administrative roles in higher education. Read More

    Mar. 6, 2017

  • Colleen Conway-Welch

    Colleen Conway-Welch named to national Health Care Hall of Fame

    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… Read More

    Feb. 20, 2017