Vanderbilt Health Nursing Archive

October 12, 2017

Recruitment push helps strengthen nursing workforce

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is succeeding in its efforts to recruit the nation’s best nurses to Middle Tennessee’s only Magnet-designated hospital.

By Matt Batcheldor
September 21, 2017

‘Boot camp’ draws critical care nurses from across nation

Vanderbilt’s already significant population of nurse practitioners and physician assistants swelled by more than 350 people recently, as attendees from 39 states came for the sixth annual ACNP/PA Critical Care Boot Camp.

By Matt Batcheldor
September 7, 2017

APRN Emergency Medicine Fellowship created

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is starting an Advanced Practice Emergency Medicine Fellowship, one of the first programs in the country exclusively for nurse practitioners specializing in emergency care.

By Matt Batcheldor
August 31, 2017

Round Wing unit lauded for infection control efforts

The General Medicine unit on the third floor of the Round Wing of Medical Center North is celebrating more than four years without a catheter-associated urinary tract infection.

By Matt Batcheldor
August 3, 2017

Patient Flow Nurses help increase efficiency of discharge process

Patient Flow Nurses (PFNs) are passionate about their role — helping expedite the discharge of patients to decrease length of stay, reduce readmissions and open beds for other patients.

By Matt Batcheldor
July 27, 2017

Harris honored for support of employees’ military service

Kaye Harris, MSN, R.N., manager of Supplemental Staffing Programs, has received a Patriotic Employer Award from the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a program of the Department of Defense.

By Matt Batcheldor
July 27, 2017

Hospitals and clinics receive third Magnet designation

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a third consecutive Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the organization announced in a conference call on July 20.
By Matt Batcheldor
April 27, 2017

Appraisers’ visit is final step of VUMC Nursing’s third Magnet Designation

Four appraisers from the American Nurses Credentialing Center are visiting Vanderbilt University Medical Center this week as the final step toward the Medical Center earning a third Magnet Designation.
By Matt Batcheldor
April 13, 2017

Article explores nursing professionalism system

Nurses have an essential role in supporting a professional work environment, and to do so, they must build a system that promotes it. That is the message from Executive Chief Nursing Officer Marilyn Dubree, MSN, R.N., in a newly-published article in the April issue of American Nurse Today magazine.
By Matt Batcheldor
April 13, 2017

Advocating for patients drives Children’s Hospital’s Lowry

Small and seemingly inconsequential interactions with patients can sometimes stick in a caregiver’s memory.
By Paul Govern
March 30, 2017

VPH’s Jarosemich always ready to lend a helping hand

Laura Jarosemich, MSN, R.N., is always teaching. It’s the role she had as a nurse educator, as an instructor at Nashville State Community College and now as a nurse at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (VPH), both to patients and fellow nurses.
By Matt Batcheldor
March 16, 2017

Moore honored by American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Deonna Moore, MSN, ACNP-BC, was recently named the Advanced Transplant Provider of the Year by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
By Jessica Pasley
February 23, 2017

Krause named to local Ronald McDonald House board

Kathie Krause, MSN, R.N., Chief Nursing Officer for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, was recently named to the board of directors of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Nashville.
By Matt Batcheldor