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Q+A: An Interview with Trish Trangenstein
What does the term “nursing informatics” mean? Nursing informatics is a specialty recognized by the American Nurses’ Association. Nursing informatics transforms electronic information into knowledge and eventually knowledge into wisdom needed to improve outcomes. Nursing outcomes can only be improved if you can apply wisdom across any number of areas, and a person needs advanced…
Posted in Features, Issue, Spring 2012 | Tags: cover, slideshow
Class Notes – Spring 2012
40s Bettie Ann White Cleino, BSN ‘44, MSN, PhD, was inducted into the Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame on Oct. 13, 2011. She believes her nursing career was set in motion by the advanced education she received at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. In her acceptance speech, Cleino quoted Lulu K. Hassenplug by saying, “We…
Posted in Class Notes, Departments, Issue, Spring 2012 |
Spotlight on Nursing Research/Pain Management and Alzheimer’s Disease
Todd Monroe is on a quest to figure out if and how people with Alzheimer’s disease feel pain. Thanks to a grant from the John Hartford Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Monroe, PhD, RN, is studying women with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease and healthy women to see how they…
Posted in Departments, Issue, Research News, Spring 2012 |
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 |
Dean’s Message
Welcome to the Spring issue of Vanderbilt Nurse magazine. We have been able to accomplish many things at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing together, but when it comes down to it, my job is simple. It’s about doing anything and everything to ensure the ever-increasing value of a Vanderbilt University School of Nursing degree. Whether…
Posted in Dean's Column, Spring 2012 |
Photo Galleries: Graduation and Pinning
Posted in Fall 2011, Issue, Photo Gallery |
Raiding the Medicine Cabinet
Drug disposal event saving environment /livesby Carole Bartoo America has a drug problem. But it’s not what you think; in fact this drug problem is probably happening in your community – even in your own home. The problem is the accumulation of prescription drugs with no good plan for disposing of them. As the number…
Posted in Fall 2011, Features, Issue | Tags: slideshow
Dangers of Improper Prescription Drug Use
Prescription painkillers can cause nausea and vomiting. Mixing anti-anxiety or sleep disorder drugs with other drugs, particularly alcohol, can slow breathing and heart rate, and possibly lead to death. Abusing stimulants while taking a cold medicine with decongestants can cause dangerous increases in blood pressure and irregular heart rhythms.
Posted in Fall 2011, Features, Issue |
Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
Source: National Institute for Drug Abuse After marijuana, prescription and over-the-counter medications account for most of the top drugs abused by 12th graders in the past year. Nearly half (47%) of teens who use prescription drugs say they get them for free from a relative or friend. More than three in five (62% or 14.6…
Posted in Fall 2011, Features, Issue |
How to Safely Dispose of Drugs
Drug take-back events are happening more frequently across the country. We challenge you to take a hard look at the contents of your medicine cabinet, purse, wallet, dresser drawer or any place where you keep medicine. Chances are you have some expired medicines. If there isn’t a drug disposal event near you, follow these steps:…
Posted in Fall 2011, Features, Issue |
Healing Through Literature
by Leslie Hill Christine Shih cared for a range of patients – adolescents in a student health center, premature babies, elderly eye patients and adults with leukemia – then turned her attention to a different set: the Elizabeth Darcys and Fanny Prices populating the Regency-period English countryside in classic novels by Jane Austen. The Setting…
Posted in Fall 2011, Features, Issue | Tags: cover, slideshow
Christine Shih’s Reading List
For a true picture of the Borderline personality Lady Susan Jane Austen Mansfield Park Jane Austen Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Jane of Lantern Hill L.M. Montgomery The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Till We Have Faces C.S. Lewis Look Homeward,…
Posted in Fall 2011, Features, Issue |
Above and Beyond
Doctorally-Prepared Nurses Making an Impact Anyone in the world of nursing knows it is a continuously evolving profession. As patient needs become more complex and health care reform overhauls take shape, who in the profession will lead the way? Many believe the answer is: doctorally-prepared nurses. The problem is that fewer than 1 percent of…
Posted in Fall 2011, Features, Issue | Tags: cover, slideshow
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 |
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