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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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New system makes it easier for patients to monitor lymphedema
New system makes it easier for patients to monitor lymphedema. (Article) (PDF)
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VUSN’s Patti McCarver in the New York Times
VUSN’s Patti McCarver in the New York Times [Article] [PDF]
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What is JHS?
Helping nursing students reduce their debt load is the top priority of the Julia Hereford Society. With an average debt load for $68,000 for 2010 VUSN graduates, the group wants to provide scholarships to reduce the burden of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing students. Named for former VUSN Dean Julia Hereford, the society members include…
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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…
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Year in review 2010: Additions, promotions bolster leadership team
12/16/2010 - Jill Austin, MBA, chief marketing officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was named assistant vice chancellor for Strategic Marketing and chief marketing officer in July. Since assuming responsibility for all marketing functions at VUMC last summer, Austin and her team have continued to build upon Vanderbilt’s position as the preferred health care provider in…
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Year in review 2010: A year of achievements, discoveries
12/16/2010 - Editor’s note — the following is a chronological roundup of the news that made headlines at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2010. Program in Drug Discovery A $10 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health in March established Vanderbilt’s Program in Drug Discovery as a National Cooperative Drug Discovery and Development Group…
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VUMC prepared to thrive in era of health reform
BY: PAUL GOVERN Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., discusses health reform at Tuesday’s Leadership Assembly in Langford Auditorium. (photo by Anne Rayner) 12/09/2010 - Going forward, the federal government’s efforts to reduce the nation’s budget deficit will likely spell a decline in reimbursement rates for health care services. This is at least what the nation’s savvy health…
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Hydrotherapy tub helps ease labor’s pain
By: Nancy Humphrey 12/02/2010 - In the early stages of labor, expectant mothers are often told to soak in a warm tub at home — an effective way to relieve both the contractions and back pain during labor. In the tub, the weight of the baby is lifted off the mother’s back by the water’s buoyancy….
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From labs to libraries, Nashville’s colleges share resources
By Jennifer Brooks • THE TENNESSEAN • November 13, 2010 Vanderbilt is a teaching hospital for more than just its own students. There’s a social work major from Tennessee State University taking a patient’s medical history. A graduate student in Lipscomb University’s College of Pharmacy checks prescriptions, while a Vanderbilt University medical student shadows a…
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Hereford Society to help ease debt burden of nursing students
by Kathy Rivers Helping nursing students reduce their debt load was the top priority at the Julia Hereford Society committee meeting last week. With the average debt of a nursing student exceeding $80,000, the group wants to provide scholarships to reduce the burden of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing students. The society is named for…
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Legal Aspects of Prenatal Substance Explored
Legal Aspects of Prenatal Substance Explored BY: KATHY RIVERS 9/30/2010 - National experts came together last week to discuss methadone treatment, pregnancy and associated legal issues, a growing concern in Tennessee as, according to recent studies, 8.5 percent of new mothers in Tennessee reported using some sort of illicit drug during pregnancy. Community groups, providers and…
Balser’s Vision for VUMC
Balser outlines promise of future for VUMC BY: CRAIG BOERNER 9/23/2010 - Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s “promise” of the future is to personalize medicine for each individual patient — identifying each patient’s unique genetic difference, then making evidence-based decisions at the bedside to reflect these differences. With the theme of “The Promise of Discovery,” Jeff Balser,…
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