“I could be an example that there is a way to get better."
What would make a physician go back to school to become a nurse practitioner?
Sousan, Sohayla and Setareh Yazdani are 22-year-old triplets who all work as nurses at VUMC. They agree that they always wanted to pursue their careers at Vanderbilt.
DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries
Frank Nix of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit finds a way to connect with patient families with his custom face covers
DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries
DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries.
The work group, which calls a mock code twice a month to give team members as much practice as possible, has managed to cut the response time to a code in half, from about 143 seconds to 77 seconds.
Neonatal nurse practitioner Wendy Araya, a Feb. 29 baby herself, offers advice to the latest leaplings
Sometimes emergencies happen – sick kids or school closings – that cause you to need backup childcare. VUMC offers employees a benefit through Care.com that gives you several options for backup care. With the Care.com benefit, VUMC employees receive up to 20 days (per fiscal year — July 1 through June 30) of subsidized backup childcare at home or at local, vetted childcare centers. Click here to learn more.
If you are enrolled in the Aetna Plus or Aetna Select VUMC health plans, you can pay zero out-of-pocket costs for pre- and post-natal care, certain spinal and joint surgeries and cochlear implants through the MyHealth Bundles program. Click here for more information.
