VUSN

  • Vanderbilt family nurse practitioner student talks to a patient sitting on an exam table in a clinic.

    VUSN receives $3.2 million federal grant to increase diversity in health care providers

      Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has launched a scholarship program for family nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery and dual nurse-midwifery/FNP master’s students that aims to increase diversity in primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved areas. Funded by a new $3.2… Read More

    Oct. 21, 2020

  • Formal portrait of Dean Linda Norman

    VUSN Dean Linda Norman to step down June 30, 2021

      Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has launched a scholarship program for family nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery and dual nurse-midwifery/FNP master’s students that aims to increase diversity in primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved areas. Funded by a new $3.2… Read More

    Sep. 23, 2020

  • School of Nursing carved in limestone arch

    Vanderbilt Nursing students, faculty return to in-person classes on campus fall 2020

      Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has launched a scholarship program for family nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery and dual nurse-midwifery/FNP master’s students that aims to increase diversity in primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved areas. Funded by a new $3.2… Read More

    Jun. 16, 2020

  • Victorian painting showing Florence Nightingale checking on the wounded in a hospital at night. She holds her iconic lamp.

    Lessons from Florence Nightingale are primary tools in COVID-19 nursing

      Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has launched a scholarship program for family nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery and dual nurse-midwifery/FNP master’s students that aims to increase diversity in primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved areas. Funded by a new $3.2… Read More

    May. 11, 2020

  • White female nurse practitioner shows something on a tablet to an older African American male patient

    Applications open for new VUSN Community-based Nurse Practitioner Residency Fellowship progam

      Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has launched a scholarship program for family nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery and dual nurse-midwifery/FNP master’s students that aims to increase diversity in primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved areas. Funded by a new $3.2… Read More

    Feb. 5, 2020

  • Linda Hughes speaking behind a prodium with a large photo of lesbian women drinking in a gay bar is on the screen

    Pioneering LGBTI researcher provides insight into health needs of sexual minority women

    When Tonda Hughes, PhD, RN, FAAN, began researching lesbian health in the early 1990s, her advisors were skeptical and discouraging. They were concerned that she wouldn’t get her papers published or be . . . . View the lecture Read More

    Jan. 31, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Commemorating Black History Month and Nursing

      Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has launched a scholarship program for family nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery and dual nurse-midwifery/FNP master’s students that aims to increase diversity in primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved areas. Funded by a new $3.2… Read More

    Jan. 28, 2020

  • Vanderbilt Martin Luther King Jr. Award winners and guest speaker Phyllis Sharps hold plaques, while Dr. Andre Churchwell and Dean Linda Norman flank them

    VUSN faculty Hudson and Starks honored with MLK Award at annual lecture

    Two Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty received the annual Martin Luther King Jr. award presented by VUSN and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine during the 2020 MLK Commemorative Lecture on Monday. Assistant Professors Tamika Hudson, DNP, MSN’12, and Jannyse Starks, DNP’11, MSN,’09 were honored for their work with the Community Action Poverty Simulation, which helps students, faculty, staff and community leaders experience life in poverty through a planned simulation. School of Medicine Assistant Professor Adriana Bialostozky, MD, was also honored, receiving the MLK award for her work in providing culturally competent care in pediatrics. Read More

    Jan. 23, 2020

  • A Vanderbilt Nurse Practitioner in a white coat talks with a female patient in an exam room

    Americans rank nurses as the most trusted professionals in the U.S.

      Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has launched a scholarship program for family nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery and dual nurse-midwifery/FNP master’s students that aims to increase diversity in primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved areas. Funded by a new $3.2… Read More

    Jan. 20, 2020

  • Tonda Hughes in front of rainbow flag

    LGBTQ and addiction expert to present VUSN Dean’s Diversity Lecture Jan. 14

      Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has launched a scholarship program for family nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery and dual nurse-midwifery/FNP master’s students that aims to increase diversity in primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved areas. Funded by a new $3.2… Read More

    Dec. 18, 2019