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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

Tracey DeWire, MSN'08, ACNP-BC, had a 16-year career in sales before deciding to become a nurse practitioner, a decision inspired by her best friend’s cancer diagnosis. She’s kept that inspiration burning in the 15 years of her second career. Her compassionate care has led to a VUMC Patient and Family Choice Award. Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is welcoming the first graduates of the Nurse Scholars Program, which pays for up to four semesters of nursing school tuition at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) or Cumberland University in return for a work commitment to VUMC. The welcoming of the graduates comes as the latest group of nursing scholars were recently accepted into the program, which began accepting scholars in 2023. The program will pay up to $7,500 in tuition per semester, which is applied after grants and other scholarships. Read More

Three targeted research projects aimed at improving hospital models of care delivery are coming together at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education Ruth Kleinpell PhD, ACNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, FNAP, MCCM, and colleagued talked to "DIscoveries in Medicine" about their work on social determinants of health and how a new State of Tennessee grant is helping them evaluate how to fit routine SDOH screening into care. Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

A new partnership with AARP Tennessee and the National Museum of African-American Music is allowing the Theraputic Music in the ICU program led by Vanderbilt School of Nursing Professor Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, FAAN, MCCM, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center Professor Joseph Schlesinger, MD, FCCM, to expand with outreach to veterans and older adults at long-term care facilities in Middle Tennessee. Read More

Assistant Professor of Nursing Leanne Boehm, PhD’16, FCCM, has received a grant of more than $3.6 million over five years to examine, the efficacy of telemedicine services among people recovering from post-intensive care syndrome. This effort, funded by the National Institute on Aging, is the first PICS longitudinal cognitive impairment intervention study of its ki Read More

Members of the School of Nursing are participating in a new Vanderbilt University Medical Center initiative funded with a $3.9 million grant to VUMC from the Tennessee Department of Health. The grant program will evaluate innovative models of nursing care that include screening and responding to social drivers of health. It will also investigate how to mitigate nursing staffing shortages while ensuring optimal patient care. Read More

The Tennessee Action Coalition has included a School of Nursing faculty member and a Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt nurse in its 2023 cohort of Tennessee Rising Star Nurse Leaders. VUSN Assistant Professor Monika Schmidt Do, DNP, FACC, and clinical staff leader Cory Smeltzer, RN, were among 25 young Tennessee nurse leaders named rising stars. Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

Nurse leaders from eight states in either clinical practice or academic nursing came together from Nov. 14-18 at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) for the inaugural Academy for Diverse Emerging Nurse Leaders. The academy, a joint effort of VUSN and VUMC, is a new leadership development program for nurses new to health care leadership and academic positions who are from groups historically underrepresented in nursing and/or those who support them. Read the story in the VUMC Reporter. Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

Investigators analyzing comments received during a 2020 Vanderbilt University Medical Center study that showed women have a difficult time accessing treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) have shed further light on barriers to care. Those included everything from long on-hold times to difficult interactions with clinic receptionists during phone calls seeking appointments, said Vanderbilt University School of Nursing assistant professor Julia Phillippi, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, lead author on the qualitative study published in "Women's Health Issues." Read More

The mother of the groom was choking at a wedding reception. A person needed CPR on a plane. Two Vanderbilt Faculty Nurse-Midwives stepped up and saved lives. Read about CNMs Grace Zimmerman and Alexandra Speros, MSN'19, in "VUMC Voice." Read More

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

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

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

Assistant Professor and Clinic at Mercury Courts Clinical Director Christian Ketel, DNP'14, RN, has added a new role: Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Inter-Institutional Collaborative Learning co-director with the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. He sat down with MVA writer Matt Schorr recently to talk about his new adventure. Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

VUMC Department of Medicine hosted a very special Medicine Grand Rounds event on June 25. "How Structural Racism Affects Health and Health Care" featured four distinguished panelists in a discussion of racism in academic medicine and the health care environment. Watch  Read More

VUSN Assistant Professor Kate Clouse has created an app for smartphones to help South African mothers with HIV stay connected to health care. Nearly one in three pregnant women attending antenatal care in South Africa is living with HIV. Clouse and an international research team are studying whether the app, CareConekta, is an effective method to reach patients during and after pregnancy. Read More

Masks are now part of our daily lives. They are recommended by the CDC and other health experts as a way to limit the spread of COVID-19. David Aronoff, MD, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center has put together a quick tutorial on proper and safe masking. It’s a good refresher for those of us who are used to wearing masks and a valuable how-to for mask-wearing novices. This is also a great resource to forward to your friends, family and neighbors who may never have had to wear a mask before. A full article with illustration has been published online at the JAMA Patient Page. Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

Nine nurses from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently received top honors at the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter Nurse of the Year Awards. Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

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

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

When Julie Foss came to Vanderbilt in 1979, she knew exactly where she wanted to work – the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU). Except for some brief stints in other areas, she has worked in MICU ever since. Foss, MSN'86, RN, NE-BC, retired in February after managing the MICU at Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital for nearly 30 years, a job on a high-stress unit that she never tired of. Read more from VUMC Voice Read More

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

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

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for health care information continues to grow amid questions about their accuracy, safety and reliability and excitement over their potential to improve access to care. A new, two-year, up to $7.3M project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is focused on reducing errors and… Read More