VUMC Nursing

DAISY Award spotlight: “She helped me have my hope back again.”

Kelsey Hendrix, BSN, RN, works in the Progressive Care Unit at Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital and is one of the latest DAISY Award winners at VUMC.

Marilyn Dubree, MSN, RN, NE-BC, spent more than 45 years promoting excellence in nursing practice at Vanderbilt. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

Marilyn Dubree receives DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award

Marilyn Dubree, MSN, RN, NE-BC, FAAN, Former Executive Chief Nursing Officer at VUMC, was awarded a DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award.

Q&A with new VUMC System Chief Nursing Officer Karen Keady

Karen Keady, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, stepped into her new role as VUMC System Chief Nursing Officer on July 1. In this interview, she covered several key topics, including her leadership style and vision, technology and innovation, work-life balance, shadowing, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Vanderbilt Nurse Externship participants taking part in this summer’s program are gaining hands-on clinical experience working with patients. (photo by Donn Jones)

Program to train future nurses relaunched

The program will help Externs acquire valuable skills, gain self-confidence, and increase clinical competency under the supervision of experienced nurse preceptors.

From left are Greg Sund, MD; Mark Newton, MD; Brent Dunworth, DNP, MBA, CRNA; Hollie Humphries, MD; Julian Rios, MD; Jill Moore, MS, CRNA; Michael Leersnyder, DNAP, CRNA; Casey Balthazar, DNAP, CRNA; Heather Larson, MS, CRNA; and Matt Kynes, MD.

VUMC team attends first Pan African Nurse Anesthetists Conference

The conference, which took place June 18-20 in Nairobi, Kenya, brought together non-physician anesthesia providers from 18 different countries in Africa for continued education and networking. The purpose was to reduce maternal mortality by improving safe access to anesthesia for pregnant women across Africa.

Nursing may be a later in life career for Christin Inman, RN, but the VWCH Patient and Family Choice Award winner is right on time

“I take my time with every single patient and want to hear what brought them here and what they want to take out of their experience.”

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