Dean Pamela Jeffries

Alumni from graduation years ending in 4 and 9 were celebrated at VUSN’s 2024 Reunion Nov. 7-9 in a variety of activities ranging from tours of the school to the annual Alumni Award presentation. A highlight was the yearly VUSN Quinq luncheon, where the school honored alumni who graduated… Read More

Alumni from graduation years ending in 4 and 9 were celebrated at VUSN’s 2024 Reunion Nov. 7-9 in a variety of activities ranging from tours of the school to the annual Alumni Award presentation. A highlight was the yearly VUSN Quinq luncheon, where the school honored alumni who graduated… Read More

Vanderbilt University announced today the creation of the Vanderbilt Center for Research on Inequality and Health, a trans-institutional collaboration of the College of Arts and Science and the School of Nursing. The center will convene leading Vanderbilt researchers with deep expertise in economic and social inequality, population health science, LGBTQ+ health policy and gun violence to explore the health impacts of these interrelated areas of study. Read More

Alumni from graduation years ending in 4 and 9 were celebrated at VUSN’s 2024 Reunion Nov. 7-9 in a variety of activities ranging from tours of the school to the annual Alumni Award presentation. A highlight was the yearly VUSN Quinq luncheon, where the school honored alumni who graduated… Read More

Alumni from graduation years ending in 4 and 9 were celebrated at VUSN’s 2024 Reunion Nov. 7-9 in a variety of activities ranging from tours of the school to the annual Alumni Award presentation. A highlight was the yearly VUSN Quinq luncheon, where the school honored alumni who graduated… Read More

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners selected Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Pamela R. Jeffries, PhD, FAAN, ANEF, FSSH, as their Tennessee honoree for the 2023 Advocate State Award for Excellence. The award recognizes her work as dean and educator to support and promote the nurse practitioner role. Read More

Sigma Theta Tau International’s Iota at-Large chapter, based at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, welcomed 100 new members and their guests this week. At the ceremony, the students were inducted, signed the chapter’s induction book, and received purple and white honor cords to wear with their regalia. They join the more than 40 VUSN faculty and countless alumni who are part of the organization. Read More

For the third year in a row, the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has won a Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. Read More

Vanderbilt Independence Foundation Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Clinical Scholarship Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, FAAN, FAANP, MCCM, received a 2022 Fellow of American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ Legacy Award at the 2022 American Association of Nurse Practitioner annual conference in June and the 2022 Rebecca Clark Culpepper Education and Mentorship Award, given jointly by Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in May. Read More

Master of Science in Nursing graduate Tip Tilton was selected as the School of Nursing's Founder's Medalist for the Class of 2022. The mother of two maintained a 4.0 cumulative GPA at Vanderbilt while earning her MSN in Nursing Informatics and working more than 40 hours a week as an RN quality improvement coordinator for John Muir Medical Center. She is now a clinical nurse informaticist at the Center for Digital Health Innovation at University of California, San Francisco. Read More

Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver honored 36 scholars from across the university at an endowed chair investiture ceremony on campus March 30. Dean Pamela Jeffries received the Valere Potter Distinguished Chair in Nursing and Professor Julie Barroso received the Julia Eleanor Blair Chenault Chair in Nursing during the celebration. Read More

Alumni from graduation years ending in 4 and 9 were celebrated at VUSN’s 2024 Reunion Nov. 7-9 in a variety of activities ranging from tours of the school to the annual Alumni Award presentation. A highlight was the yearly VUSN Quinq luncheon, where the school honored alumni who graduated… Read More