Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

May 6, 2024

Second-most used herbicide in the US linked to birth defect in national study 

At present, 44 countries, including the European Union, have banned or are phasing out atrazine due to concern for its negative effects on human health.

By Craig Boerner
February 14, 2024

Love is in the air: NICU babies celebrate their first Valentine’s Day

Red Alert for cuteness!

By Donn Jones
January 19, 2024

Retirement won’t slow down pioneering neonatal nurse Odessa Settles

Odessa Settles may have retired after spending more than 50 years as a neonatal nurse at Vanderbilt, but her career is far from over.

By Jessica Pasley
December 21, 2023

Special delivery: NICU babies’ first Christmas

By Susan Urmy
The addition space allows Becca Parker to move Samuel from his car seat to his stroller safely. (photo by Donn Jones)
December 18, 2023

Larger accessible parking spaces added to South Garage

Multiple newly striped, larger-sized accessible parking spaces with crosshatched areas to allow for additional space added to the South Garage are helping parents of children with complex needs safely get to clinic visits at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By Jessica Pasley
Meg Rush, MD, MMHC, talks about the history of the Stahlman NICU during the reception marking the unit’s closure.
June 15, 2023

Stahlman NICU transitions to new resuscitation unit

Vanderbilt’s The Stahlman Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, one of the first modern neonatal intensive care units in the world, cared for its last baby and closed at the end of May.

By Danny Bonvissuto
March 2, 2023

Cannula shortage led to more invasive lung support for infants

A Vanderbilt study found that a three-year shortage of a common cannula used in young infants needing lung support forced hospitals across the United States to switch to a more invasive form of lung support,
By Christina Echegaray
December 27, 2022

Photos celebrate NICU babies’ first Christmas

Christmas is a holiday that celebrates the birth of a baby; here are photos of some babies who spent their first Christmas in NICU, surrounded by the love of family and in the care of their doctors and nurses
By Jessica Pasley
August 18, 2022

Study seeks to explore drug link to fetal vessel defect

Vanderbilt researchers have received a grant to study whether drugs given to premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) contribute to a potentially lethal condition called patent ductus arteriosus.
By Bill Snyder
May 25, 2022

Jenny Leigh sets out each day to make a difference for her fellow nurses

Leigh, a nursing education specialist, provides educational support for more than 400 staff members in the NICU
By Matt Batcheldor
February 3, 2022

Respiratory therapist was once a neonatal intensive care unit patient

Melanie Walker knows was once a patient in Vanderbilt's neonatal intensive care unit. Today, she's a respiratory therapist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.
By Jessica Pasley
January 13, 2022

Melanie Walker started life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Now she works there helping tiny babies breathe.

“I could be an example that there is a way to get better."
By Jessica Pasley
December 16, 2021

“Pin” Schnabel began her career as a surgeon, and went back to school to become a nurse practitioner. Her tiny patients benefit from her experience every day.

What would make a physician go back to school to become a nurse practitioner?
By Jessica Pasley
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