Vanderbilt Health Nursing

Kapu named president-elect of nurse practitioners association

April Kapu, DNP, APRN, associate nursing officer for VUMC Advanced Practice has been named president-elect of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

A VUMC study found that following up with patients within the week after their hospital discharge as a stand-alone intervention has no impact on readmissions, mortality or patient satisfaction.

VUMC’s hotline surpasses 20,000-call milestone

In early March Vanderbilt University Medical Center established a telephone hotline for its patients and employees concerned that they could be ill with COVID-19. The hotline has since received more than 20,000 calls.

APRN fellowship program receives ANCC accreditation

VUMC’s Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner Fellowship has been accredited with distinction as a Practice Transition Program by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs.

Whitney Gannon MSN, MS, RN, APRN

Gannon to oversee efforts to expand ECMO program to additional units

Whitney Gannon MSN, MS, RN, APRN, has been named to the new position of director of Quality and Education for the Vanderbilt Extracorporeal Life Support Program (ECLS).

From left are AACN’s Deb Trautman, VUMC’s April Kapu, DNP, VUSN’s Linda Norman, DSN, RN, and AACN’s Ann Cary.

VUMC, VUSN academic/practice partnership lauded

The partnership between Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and Vanderbilt University Medical Center was recognized by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) with its 2019 New Era for Academic Nursing Award.

Fourth quarter DAISY Awards honor four extraordinary nurses

DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries. This is Vanderbilt’s latest group.

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