Vanderbilt Nursing’s Fall 2019 Informatics and Leadership MSN Entrants Set to Receive First-Year Scholarships

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) is awarding 10 percent scholarships to all incoming fall 2019 students in its relaunched Nursing Informatics and Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty programs for the first year.

VUSN redesigned two of its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) specialty programs and relaunched them with revised curricula, educational formats, and degree requirements. The Nursing Informatics and Nursing and Health Care Leadership programs are now accepting applications for admission in fall 2019. All members of the fall 2019 classes will receive scholarships valued at 10 percent of their first year tuition.

VUSN Dean Linda D. Norman, DSN, RN, FAAN, Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, said that the school recently re-evaluated the two specialties to determine if there were newer or better ways to serve students and prepare them for leadership roles. One major change for the two specialties was moving them to be part time only. The programs will be offered in a modified online learning format that allows students to complete degree requirements without relocating or giving up employment. Distance learning activities for the programs will include online conferencing and video-streamed lectures.

Norman tells Nursing.Vanderbilt.edu, “Nursing, perhaps above all professions, understands the need to periodically revise programs of study to meet the needs of a rapidly changing health care system and incorporate the best practices, thinking and evidence.”

Both specialties are geared toward RNs with Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees. To learn more about Vanderbilt Nursing’s scholarship offerings for first-year students in the MSN Nursing Informatics and Nursing and Health Care Leadership programs, visit here.