Year: 2023

VUMC volunteers prepare a patient for surgery during Orthopaedics Outreach Day at Vanderbilt Surgery Center in Franklin. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

August 29, 2023

Volunteers lend a helping hand at Orthopaedics Outreach Day

Approximately 60 VUMC volunteers, including surgeons, pre- and post-op nurses and check-in, anesthesia, sterile, supply and cleaning staff, took over the Vanderbilt Surgery Center in Franklin to provide free surgical treatment to uninsured or underinsured Middle Tennesseans.

By Danny Bonvissuto

Newly licensed RNs attended a recent orientation for VUMC’s Nurse Residency Program. (photo by Donn Jones)

August 29, 2023

Residency program supports newly licensed RNs as they transition from students to professional nurses

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Nurse Residency Program is a 12-month program that supports newly licensed RNs as they transition from students to professional nurses.

By Matt Batcheldor

August 28, 2023

Pets of VUMC 2023 — Collection #2: Pets and their people, part 2

Your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidant

August 28, 2023

Study on miscarriage management finds combination treatment is more efficient and cost effective

Vanderbilt research finds that only 1% of 22,116 commercially insured women ages 15-49 with medically managed miscarriages received the recommended combination of mifepristone.