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Erin K. Rodgers, MSN, RN, CPN
Assistant Professor
erin.rodgers@vanderbilt.edu
Current Research/Scholarly/Clinical Activity
Erin Rodgers is the course co-coordinator for Fundamentals of Clinical Practice, as well as a pediatric clinical instructor for Integration of Theoretical and Clinical Aspects of Nursing. She also serves as the pediatric content coordinator and lecturer of pediatric content for the three semester didactic courses examining the human experience of health and illness across the lifespan. Ms. Rodgers has 30 years of clinical nursing practice including a history of: Family Nurse Practitioner at the Maternal and Infant Care Clinic, Nashville TN; pediatric staff nurse at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital; staff nurse in a well baby nursery; camp nurse for 13 years; and faculty at VUSN since 2005.
Representative Publications
Weathersby, A. M., Waugh, P. & Rodgers, E. (2008). Assessment of the newborn and newly delivered mother. In Intrapartum Management Modules: A Perinatal Education Program. (B.B. Kennedy, D. J. Ruth & E. J. Martin eds.). (4th ed., pp 407-431). Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
Professional Organizations
Sigma Theta Tau, Nursing honor society
Tennessee Nurses Association
American Nurses Association
Honors & Awards
- Ingeborg Mauksch Award for excellence in faculty mentoring – VUSN 2012
- Excellence in Clinical Instruction Award – VUSN 2008
- Nursing Intervention and Skills Lab Award for teaching innovation in the nursing skills lab – VUSN 2008
- Sara K. Archer Award for outstanding contribution in teaching scholarliness and faculty student relations – VUSN 2007
- Shirley Titus Award for outstanding contributions to prespecialty classroom teaching – VUSN 2006
- Excellence in Clinical Instruction Award – VUSN 2005
