Vanderbilt University will no longer have an exclusive deal to provide clinical training to Lipscomb University's nursing students. Seven years after creating its nursing program, Lipscomb is bringing clinical training under the university's umbrella, giving students an extra semester of clinical training at from any number of several regional health care sites.

"While the Vanderbilt collaboration has been enormously successful and valued by both institutions, this expansion allows our students to remain part of their undergraduate community while having access to a wider range of clinical choices in Middle Tennessee and have an additional semester of clinical work to build a core comprehensive set of skills," said Lipscomb College of Pharmacy Dean Roger Davis.

With the change, the school will be housed within Lipscomb's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. A search for the school's first dean is underway.