Vanderbilt Nursing

The Clinical Practice Grand Rounds Planning Committee is pleased to announce our fifth season of educational offerings featuring the expertise of our VUMC Advanced Clinical Practitioners.  Events are open to all VUMC Nursing staff and students and free to attend!

  Contact Hour(s) can be earned by attending the live event or a live unit/area hosted webcast.
  To register, click "live" or "online" to for registration in the LMS*.
  To access the live webcasts, click on the presentation title.
 
ONLINE CONTACT HOURS
Online contact hours can be earned from past Clinical Practice Grand Rounds events (including Seasons 2011 - 2012 & 2012 - 2013): click for a list of titles.

Season 2012 - 2013 Schedule

Season 2012 - 2013 printable schedule
(2 pages, formatted for 8-1/2 x 11", preferably color printing)

PEDIATRIC PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE:  UNDERSTANDING THE MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUR PHYSICALLY ILL YOUNG PATIENTS
presented by
Molly Butler, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner, Assistant Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Population focus:  Pediatrics
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 3pm to 4pm
Live:  Light Hall 208 or Online:  100 Oaks live webcast

Molly received her Bachelor’s of Science in Child Development and Master’s of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt School of Nursing.  She currently provides outpatient services in the department of psychiatry at Vanderbilt and is a member of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consult/Liaison Team at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.  Molly is also an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt’s School of Nursing.

LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE UPDATES
presented by
Clare Thomson-Smith, JD, MSN, FAANP
Director, Center for Advanced Practice Nursing & Allied Health
Assistant Dean, Faculty Practice, VUSN
Population focus:  Global
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
12pm to 1pm
Live:  Location TBD or Online:  100 Oaks live webcast

Clare earned her RN in Australia and has worked as a trauma /critical care nurse  and certified nurse midwife in Australia and the Middle East.  She earned her MSN from VUSN (where she was awarded the Founder’s Medal), completed post Master’s studies in Health Systems Management, and then earned her law degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law.  Clare was a medical malpractice defense attorney before joining Vanderbilt.

MANAGEMENT OF PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES
presented by
E. Haley Vance, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC
Inpatient Nurse Practitioners, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Population focus:  Pediatrics
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
3pm to 4pm
Live:  Location TBD or Online:  100 Oaks live webcastley
 

Haley received her MSN from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where she was awarded Outstanding Pediatric Nurse Graduate Student in MS/Nursing in 2009.  Her practice focuses on managing the care of acute/complex chronically ill neurosurgery patients.  Her professional involvement includes serving as the Secretary for the Spina Bifida Association of Alabama and UAB Junior Alumni Board.

Cosponsored by VUMC, Department of Nursing Education and Professional Development and Center for Advanced Practice Nursing and Allied Health (CAPNAH)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Nursing Education and Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Tennessee Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.