Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

Graduate school in Nashville, Tennessee, US

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

Type| Private
Established| 1908
Dean| Pamela Jeffries

Academic staff

| 187
Postgraduates| 900
Address|

461 21st Avenue South

Nashville

Tennessee

United States

36°08′43″N 86°48′02″W﻿ / ﻿36.1452°N 86.8006°W﻿ / 36.1452; -86.8006
Website| nursing.vanderbilt.edu

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) is a graduate school of Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee. VUSN is closely connected with its parent university and the separate nonprofit Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The School of Nursing is ranked in the top 10 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Additionally, its Masters of Science program is ranked 8th, and its Doctorate of Nursing practice program 6th in the report's 2022 graduate school rankings.[1]

## History

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VUSN has been open since 1908,[2] and was one of the first five schools to receive Rockefeller funding to implement the Goldmark Report of 1923.[3] The school began offering the Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) in 1955. It was one of the first to launch a pre-specialty program in 1986, which allows students who hold non-nursing degrees to enter the MSN program without repeating undergraduate classes. Vanderbilt's Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, first conferred in 1935, was restructured into the pre-specialty program as one of several entry options.

In 1993, VUSN established a PhD in Nursing Science program. The Doctor of Nursing Practice program began in August 2008, which had an inaugural class of thirty-one students who graduated in 2010.[4]

## Education

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The school became exclusively a graduate school in 1989, with a mission of educating advanced level nurses. It has established MSN programs in numerous advanced specialty practice nursing areas. The school has multiple entry options for nurses and non-nurses, admitting students from educational backgrounds other than nursing and allowing them to complete a course of work leading to an advanced practice nursing degree. The school also offers a Ph.D. in Nursing Science—clinical research or health services research—and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP).

VUSN offers the following MSN specialty programs:

* Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
* Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
* Emergency Nurse Practitioner
* Family Nurse Practitioner
* Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
* Nurse-Midwifery
* Nurse-Midwifery/FNP Dual Focus
* Nursing and Health Care Leadership
* Nursing Informatics
* Pediatric Nurse Practitioner \- Acute Care
* Pediatric Nurse Practitioner \- Primary Care
* Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Lifespan)
* Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
* Women's Health Nurse Practitioner /Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Dual Focus

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing also offers these advanced degree programs:

* Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nursing Research
* Post-Master's Certificates
* Postdoctoral Program

## Teaching affiliates

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* Vanderbilt University Hospital
* Monroe Carell Jr., Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
* Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
* The Vanderbilt Clinic
* Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center
* Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital
* Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital
* Vanderbilt Sports Medicine
* Dayani Human Performance Center
* Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute

## References

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1. ^ "Vanderbilt University - Best Nursing Schools". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
2. ^ "VUSN History". nursing.vanderbilt.edu. October 25, 2019. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
3. ^ "VUSN History". nursing.vanderbilt.edu. October 25, 2019. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
4. ^ "VUSN History". nursing.vanderbilt.edu. October 25, 2019. Retrieved October 25, 2019.

## External links

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* Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
* Vanderbilt Nurse

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Vanderbilt University

Located in Nashville, Tennessee – Founded 1873

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