Distinguished Alumna Award 2006
Sharon Schindler Rising
Class of 1967
Clinical scholar, teacher, educational program director, inventor, entrepreneur, politician and most of all, nurse-midwife, this alumna's work has broken important new ground in the provision of high quality, cost effective and more to the point, sensitive prenatal care. Descriptions of her work are replete with language about values: personal growth for both patient and provider; empowerment; the healing potential of being seriously attended to; holding clients and their stories in trust. Her work itself has been her "life journey", a term she loans to capture the client/provider partnership. Starting small in Minnesota, where she not only created the practice site but also the nurse-midwifery graduate program, her work found another base back in Connecticut; now it extends to more than 50 sites in the United States and Canada, and now, Australia. Research including randomized controlled trials supports the efficacy, effectiveness and transformative power of this "disruptive design" of prenatal care that throws away the illness orientation and managing risk view of pregnancy in favor of a dynamic union of clients in a group setting, and facilitative providers. Few in health service delivery can claim to have created a new model of care; this alumna has.
It does honor to the Yale School of Nursing and her Alumna/us association to recognize the Sharon Schindler Rising of the class of 1967 with our Distinguished Alumna Award.
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