VUMC Nursing

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a to evaluate innovative models of nursing care that include screening and responding to social drivers of health to better meet the needs of all VUMC patients.

Through Vanderbilt's new virtual nurse program, certain tasks such as documentation can be done remotely via a teleconference in the patient’s room, giving nurses at the bedside more time to care for patients in person.

Vanderbilt nurses gave four podium presentations at the 2023 Fuld National Institute EBP Summit in Columbus, Ohio.

Vanderbilt's Cory Smeltzer, RN, and Monica Schmidt Do, DNP, APRN, AGNP-C, have been named as 2023 Tennessee Rising Star Nurse Leaders by the Tennessee Action Coalition.

Nurses from throughout Vanderbilt University Medical Center came together recently online and in person at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt for the Men in Nursing panel discussion.

Mamie Williams, PhD, MPH, MSN, APRN, senior director of Nursing Diversity and Inclusion at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been named co-chair of the American Nurses Association’s Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation Advisory Committee.

Sarrah Spohnholtz, MSN, RN, has been named director of Nurse Safety and Well-being at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.