Nursing Archive — Page 1 of 32

July 24, 2026

Vanderbilt Staffing Collaborative expands workforce flexibility across Vanderbilt Health

By providing greater staffing stability, the VSC equips nursing leaders with scheduling alternatives that reduce mandatory overtime and on-call shifts for their teams.

Ervin Nepomuceno, RN, and patient Lea Braun.
July 24, 2026

Thankful patient’s gift to honor nurses, veterans finds a home at Vanderbilt Clarksville Hospital

Patient Lea Braun donated one of the favorite photographs she’s taken: It’s of a bald eagle, taken in her home state of Iowa.

July 20, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘She is the only reason I didn’t have a panic attack.’

Kristi Sherrod, RN, works at the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Clarksville Dunlop Lane clinic. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners.

July 20, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘Trusting someone with your life is one thing, but trusting someone with your newborn child is entirely different.’

Michelle Gontko, BSN, RN, works in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care unit at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners.

July 20, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘Despite this not being the birth I had envisioned, I still came away feeling overwhelmingly positive, and that is entirely because of Katie.’

Katie Leavy, RN, works in the Labor and Delivery unit at Vanderbilt University Hospital. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners.

July 9, 2026

Deonna Taylor named Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer of Adult Ambulatory Nursing

In her new role, Taylor will continue providing strategic leadership for nursing practice across more than 400 ambulatory clinical sites across Middle Tennessee, providing diagnostic, surgical, infusion, primary care, specialty care and home-based services.