The program, which is optional, allows care partners to start at a Care Partner I position and progress to Care Partner II and Care Partner III.

The researchers tested the feasibility of using a simple set of proteins from blood to capture a molecular fingerprint of cardiorespiratory fitness.

The event featured lectures, breakout sessions and mentored work time that reinforced the seven-step evidence-based practice model.

Christian Haefele, RN, works in the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, which is part of Vanderbilt Adult Ambulatory Clinics. He is is one of the latest DAISY Award winners at VUMC.

Joseph Chacon, RN, works in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He is is one of the latest group of DAISY Award winners at VUMC.

The mentorship program — a partnership between VUMC Nursing and Metro Nashville Public Schools — connects staff nurses to students eyeing nursing and health care professions like Aries Beck, who wants to be a neurologist and got her first glimpse at medicine in second grade at Vanderbilt Brain Institute’s Brain Blast.