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  • Debbie Arnow in business suite is on one side of image, VU oakleaf is on other. Label reads Vanderbilt School of Nursing Faculty

    Arnow named director of Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty

    Associate Professor Debbie Arnow, DNP’11, MSN’96, has been selected as the new academic director for the Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty in the master of science in nursing program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. “Debbie Arnow is an accomplished senior nurse… Read More

    Mar. 17, 2021

  • Stacey Bruff and Sherri Randolph on their wedding day in the VUMC COVID unit

    Tears of joy, tears of sorrow — College sweethearts, a COVID unit wedding, and a love story that ended too soon

    The first week of October, 2020, Vanderbilt School of Nursing alumna Sherri Randolph, MSN'97, planned to marry her college sweetheart, Stacey Bruff. As things turned out, Sherri and Stacey got married a few days earlier, Sept. 21, in the only wedding ever to take place in the COVID unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Tragically and unexpectedly, Stacey died two days after the wedding. Sherri was devastated, and she still has a hard time talking about Stacey without tears welling up. There is a lot of sadness about how things turned out. She knows that all over the world there are millions of lives that have been changed forever by the COVID-19 pandemic, and hers is one of them. So, this is a story rooted in the devastation of the pandemic. But don’t lose sight of this: it is still a love story. Read More

    Mar. 16, 2021

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    In the thick of it: COVID fighters with the Navajo Nation

    Vanderbilt alumni Annie Moon, MSN’03, and Dr. Jill Moses, MD’91, confront a continuing COVID-19 crisis as they deliver health care to the Navajo Nation Read More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Vanderbilt Nurse in PPE

    It takes a team: Lessons from inside Vanderbilt's COVID-19 unit

    Vanderbilt Hospital tapped a team of experienced nurse practitioners to set up and provide care in its COVID-19 unit. They, along with the rest of the unit professionals, are still at it after nearly a year of what one describes as probably the hardest months of any of their professional lives. Read More

    Feb. 23, 2021

  • Ginna Corts, BSN'70, MSN'73, one of VUSN's first FNPs, has died

    Ginna Corts, BSN'70, MSN'73, one of VUSN's first FNPs, has died

    Associate Professor Debbie Arnow, DNP’11, MSN’96, has been selected as the new academic director for the Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty in the master of science in nursing program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. “Debbie Arnow is an accomplished senior nurse… Read More

    Feb. 19, 2021

  • Vanderbilt professor Tom Christenbery leans against porch rail in portrait for Summer 2020 Vanderbilt Nurse magazine.

    School of Nursing mourns loss of Tom Christenbery, beloved professor and champion of compassion in nursing

    Associate Professor Debbie Arnow, DNP’11, MSN’96, has been selected as the new academic director for the Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty in the master of science in nursing program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. “Debbie Arnow is an accomplished senior nurse… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Student groups program VUSN's 2021 Diversity Month Activities

    Associate Professor Debbie Arnow, DNP’11, MSN’96, has been selected as the new academic director for the Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty in the master of science in nursing program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. “Debbie Arnow is an accomplished senior nurse… Read More

    Feb. 8, 2021

  • Child stands on scale, adult behind them. Only legs and scale show.

    Muchira studys links in mother-child cardiovascular health, coronavirus anxiety

    Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, School of Nursing postdoctoral fellow James Muchira designed a study to examine the relationship between maternal cardiovascular health and early childhood obesity and arterial stiffness in 1- to 5-year-old children. He altered his recruitment and data collection protocols to prioritize the safety of the participants and research personnel when he returned to the lab through Vanderbilt's Research Ramp-up process. Read More

    Feb. 6, 2021

  • Zoom video grid with four people appearing. Clockwise from top left: Randy Tarkington, Andrea George, GL Black and Pam Jones

    "The tightest team that's never met" keeps VU running during pandemic

    They’ve been working together, side by side—or, rather, screen by screen—seven days a week for months to keep a bustling urban campus with thousands of active students, faculty, researchers and staff open and running in the midst of a pandemic. Andrea George, MS’94, PhD’07, director of environmental health and safety for the university, and Pam Jones, BSN’81, MSN’92, DNP’13, senior associate dean for clinical and community partnerships at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, are co-commanders of the university’s Public Health Central Command Center. They were instrumental in developing and leading Vanderbilt’s ambitious and successful Return to Campus Plan. Read More

    Jan. 26, 2021

  • Composite image of people standing holding signs with the name of who or what they are standing in support of regarding Black lives and social justice

    School of Nursing adds anti-racism language to its official diversity and inclusion position statement

    Associate Professor Debbie Arnow, DNP’11, MSN’96, has been selected as the new academic director for the Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty in the master of science in nursing program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. “Debbie Arnow is an accomplished senior nurse… Read More

    Jan. 17, 2021