March 23, 2021

Vanderbilt School of Nursing a major participant in Saturday's mass vaccination event

More than 10,000 received a one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine on Saturday, March 20, at Nissan Stadium, and among the hundreds of volunteers helping make the event a success were nurses from VUMC and from the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.

Top right: VUSN Family Nurse Practitioner student Lisandra Lorenzo gives an injection to one of Nashville’s mass vaccine event participants as fellow FNP student Janelle Chavarria assists with supplies. Employing two-person teams sped up the process for the 14-hour event.

Bottom right: Nissan Stadium staff volunteers gather with VUSN PreSpecialty students Chris Barron-Graham and Emily Ewing, and VUSN faculty Hannah Kestner, Meg Shifrin and Jennifer Wilbeck.