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DAISY Award spotlight: ‘Amidst the clinical efficiency of a hospital, there’s room for humanity and kindness.’

Keiryn Weiss, BSN, RN, CPN, works in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. She is one of the latest DAISY Award winners at VUMC.

Get app-y: scenes from VUMC Nursing’s Code Academy ‘hackathon’

A week of Code Academy focused on solving problems in nursing got tackled with lots of giggles, games, coding — and savvy questions about what it’s like to be a nurse.

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We’re here for you: how to comfort a coworker in grief

How can caregivers be expected to hold the grief of their patients, and their patients’ families, when they are grieving themselves? That was the question addressed at a recent panel discussion at Vanderbilt.

VUMC energy savings and lower carbon emissions net incentive rebate through TVA program

In addition to the on-going energy savings achieved by the project, VUMC was granted a custom incentive rebate of $243,854 through the TVA EnergyRight® for Business & Industry rebate program with the assistance of Nashville Electric Service and Hobbs and Associates. 

Eiman Jahangir on doing a plank without gravity, and seeing Earth’s curvature, colors and ‘the darkness we never appreciate’

Eiman Jahangir joins a select group of about 700 people who have gone to space. Listen to him talk about the experience, why he wants this experience to be more widely available, and what he’s thinking about being back in clinic on Sept. 3.

DAISY Award spotlight: “When I think back on how scary that evening was, I always think about how grateful I am that Lauren was our nurse”

Lauren Guthrie, RN 2 CC, works on the Labor and Delivery unit at Vanderbilt University Hospital. She is one of the latest DAISY Award winners at VUMC.

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