Photo by Mary Donaldson
Left to right: Linda Norman, senior associate dean of Academics at Vanderbilt School of Nursing; attendee Noriko Katada and Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., Nancy and Hilliard Travis Professor and dean of VUSN, gather during last week’s International Nursing Coalition for Mass Casualty Education at the Center for Better Health at Vanderbilt. The coalition meeting brought together nursing leaders and experts in mass casualty education from around the world, including representatives from nursing schools in Japan and England, to discuss designing an universal program to educate nurses on dealing with mass casualty situations worldwide.