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The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) presented its annual awards to faculty, staff and a friend of the school during its spring assembly on May 18. (Vanderbilt University)

2017 School of Nursing awards recognize faculty, staff and VUSM’s Bernard

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing presented its annual awards to faculty, staff and a friend of the school during its spring assembly on May 18.

By VUMC News and Communications

The nursing staff agreed to let LeBar hold newborn daughter in a technique called “ventral skin-to-skin contact,” which has been shown to improve premature infants’ health, both short- and long-term.

My Southern Health: The benefit of skin-to-skin contact for infants

Ventral skin-to-skin contact has been shown to improve premature infants’ health, both short- and long-term. The baby is undressed or unwrapped and placed against the mother’s bare skin, nestled against her chest. A cozier name for this method of holding a new baby is “kangaroo care.”

By VUMC News and Communications

May 19, 2017

My Southern Health: What to ask your doctor about prostate cancer screening

In 2012, the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended that men of all ages should not be routinely screened for levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA). That group now recommends that men ages 55 to 69 should talk with their doctors and make well-informed individual decisions about the potential harms and benefits of PSA screening, and treatment if cancer is found.

By VUMC News and Communications

May 19, 2017

My Southern Health: Why young adults should pay more attention to heart health

Here’s what you need to know to boost your heart health and reduce heart attack risk.

By VUMC News and Communications

Jacob Schultz, a member of the Class of 2017, will head to Vanderbilt's School of Medicine after graduation. (Vanderbilt University)

May 8, 2017

Class of 2017: Jacob Schultz, former walk-on snapper, heads to medical school on Navy scholarship

When Jacob Schultz learned the U.S. Navy had awarded him a prestigious Health Professions Scholarship to medical school, he didn’t tell his family—at least not immediately. Four days later, Schultz, a senior snapper on Vanderbilt’s football team, also learned he’d been accepted into Vanderbilt’s School of Medicine.

By VUMC News and Communications

May 2, 2017

Health care, research and Latino populations subject of lecture May 11

Nilda Peragallo Montano, dean of the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will speak on culturally appropriate ways for practitioners and researchers to reach out to and work with Latino subjects. The lecture will be Thursday, May 11, at 2 p.m. in Godchaux Nursing Annex, Room 161.