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VUSN School-based Nutrition Program Honored at White House
Fall-Hamilton Elementary School was honored at a reception last fall hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House in Washington, D.C. The event was part of the Healthier U.S. School Challenge Program, an initiative of the United States Department of Agriculture that sets benchmarks encouraging schools to create healthier school environments through increased…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News, News Around the School, Spring 2012 |
Post-Master’s in Urogynecology
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has started offering a post-master’s certificate in Urogynecology – a growing subspecialty among women’s health nurse practitioners. This education focuses on pelvic floor dysfunction which can cause physical problems and affect quality of life. “This is a wide open field as our population ages. These issues can be quite complicated…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News, News Around the School, Spring 2012 |
Benner Wants to Transform Nursing Education
Nursing education needs some sweeping changes, according to Patricia Benner, PhD, RN, who spoke as part of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Centennial Lecture Series at Langford Auditorium last fall. Benner, professor emerita in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, spoke extensively about her work findings…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News, News Around the School, Spring 2012 |
Rudolph Talks About Combining Nursing and Health Care
This January, Elizabeth G. Rudolph, JD (VU ‘89), MSN (VUSN ‘85), RN, shared her insights about how nurses can merge their health care expertise with the legal world with VUSN students and community members. Rudolph is founder and president of Jurex Center for Legal Nurse Consulting, which certifies nurses as professional legal nurse consultants. Rudolph’s…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News, News Around the School, Spring 2012 |
VUSN Nurse-Midwives Named Best in the Country
The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Nurse-Midwifery Practice has been recognized for its excellence in care by the 2010 American College of Nurse-Midwives Benchmarking Project. Specifically, VUSN was named best practice in the nation for its highest rate of postpartum visit attendance and its lowest rate of induction. They also received runner-up honors for having…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News, News Around the School, Spring 2012 |
Flulapalooza Sets Guinness Record
Vanderbilt University Medical Center holds the world record for the most vaccinations given in eight hours, according to Guinness World Records. There were 12,850 flu shots given during the October 2011 record attempt, dubbed Flulapalooza. During a special announcement in December, Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, vice chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the School…
Posted in Issue, News, News Around the School, Spring 2012 |
More Young People Choose Nursing Careers
Significantly more young people are becoming registered nurses, reversing a 10-year decline in the number of nurses entering the profession and easing some concerns about a looming nursing shortage in the United States, according to a study released in the December 2011 issue of Health Affairs. Findings show a 62 percent increase in the number…
Posted in Issue, News, News Around the School, Spring 2012 |
VUSN Breaks Records
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing welcomed its largest class ever – 486 students who are pursuing master’s, Doctor of Nurse Practice or PhD degrees. The incoming class of master’s students includes 254 students with associate’s or bachelor’s degrees who are pursuing their masters in the science of Nursing degrees and 155 non-nurses who are participating…
Posted in Departments, Fall 2011, Issue, News Around the School |
JHS Awards Scholarship
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Julia Hereford Society held its summer event at the home of Bob and Bette Sue McNeilly in June to honor this year’s JHS scholarship recipient, Amanda Rich Almond, and celebrate the group’s efforts in easing the financial burden of nursing students. The society recognizes donors to VUSN, and was named…
Posted in Departments, Fall 2011, Issue, News Around the School |
New system makes it easier for patients to monitor lymphedema
Without a way to effectively monitor and measure swelling in limbs, breast cancer patients with lymphedema can have difficulty with self-care and knowing when to seek treatment. Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Sheila Ridner, PhD, RN, and her team hope to change that with a new study that could lead to objective measuring at home…
Posted in Departments, Fall 2011, Issue, News Around the School |
VUSN Memorabilia on Display
Thanks to the generosity of VUSN alumni who sent in items to the School, some of VUSN’s historical memorabilia is now on display in the School’s Atrium and items will be rotated throughout the year. The first complete display features a cadet uniform of Elizabeth White Cleino, BSN ‘44. The red epaulets and cadet patch…
Posted in Departments, Fall 2011, Issue, News Around the School |
HSM Program One of the Best
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Health Systems Management Program specialty has been ranked as the top online Health Systems Management Program in the country by The Best Colleges, an organization that produces independent ranking assessments of colleges in various disciplines. VUSN’s Health Systems Management was also recently ranked No. 8 by U.S. News and World…
Posted in Departments, Fall 2011, Issue, News Around the School |
“Laughing gas” added as childbirth pain control option
Vanderbilt University Medical Center started offering nitrous oxide this summer as a pain management tool for women during childbirth — joining only two other hospitals in the country offering this option. Nitrous oxide, also called “laughing gas,” can be administered quickly by the patient, is widely known to rapidly ease pain and has been proven…
Posted in Departments, Fall 2011, Issue, News Around the School |
Spotlight on Nursing Research/Helping Youth Self-Manage Diabetes
Shelagh Mulvaney is on a mission to see how technology can help adolescents with diabetes. She is working on the development and testing of several systems and programs, and won’t stop until she and her colleagues can figure out ways to help teens better self-manage their health. “Thanks in part to technology, we have many…
Posted in Departments, Fall 2011, Issue, News Around the School, Research News |
Spotlight on Nursing Research/Swelling in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Sheila Ridner, PhD, MSN, wants everyone to know that lymphedema (swelling) doesn’t just happen to breast cancer survivors. So, she’s expanding her research to head and neck cancer patients. “This work is so important because lymphatic damage and the fibrosis happen from the shoulder to nasal area where our mechanisms for swallowing, nourishing and breathing…
Posted in Departments, News Around the School, Research News, Spring 2011 |
VUMC Subject of New TV Series
Once again Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been chosen as the subject of a new health care reality TV series scheduled to make its broadcast debut on a cable network this spring. The series, titled Baby’s First Day, was produced by New York-based True Entertainment. It is a brand new effort for a daytime programming…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News Around the School, Spring 2011 |
Got Blood?
Students and visitors at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing have gotten used to seeing an American Red Cross Bloodmobile in the Godchaux Hall parking lot a few times this year. During the fall and spring semesters, nearly 80 faculty, staff, and community members donated much-needed blood for the Tennessee Valley Region of the American Red…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News Around the School, Spring 2011 |
A Fresh Way to Prepare ACNPs
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is expanding its training of Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) to include a new subspecialty of intensivists. Joan King, PhD, RN, program director for the ACNP program, has been awarded a three-year, $800,000 grant from the Health Research Services Administration to work collaboratively with Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Division of…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News Around the School, Spring 2011 |
Dissertation Defense from a Distance
For the first time since Vanderbilt University established a Graduate School, a PhD candidate held a public dissertation defense from a distance and in real time. Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Lt. Col. Linda Fisher, an active duty member of the Army Nurse Corps, was at her post in Washington State using desktop video conferencing…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News, News Around the School, Spring 2011 |
VUSN Ranked no. 15 Among Nation’s Top Schools
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing ranks among the nation’s top 15 “Best Graduate Schools” according to U.S. News & World Report in the publication’s 2012 rankings released in April. VUSN rose four spots to 15, up from the 19th position when graduate nursing programs were last ranked during 2007. Among Nursing Specialties disciplines, the School…
Posted in Departments, Issue, News Around the School, Spring 2011 |
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