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Helen Varney Burst is a Professor in the Yale School of Nursing Nurse-Midwifery Specialty. Ms. Burst has directed nurse-midwifery education programs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the Medical University of South Carolina, and
Yale University and has served as a consultant to many others. She was co-originator of the mastery learning modular curriculum design for nurse-midwifery education, is an Editorial Consultant to the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, is the author of the first textbook for nurse-midwives in the United States now in its third edition as Varney's Midwifery, 3rd ed and is a co-author of Varney's Pocket Midwife. Ms. Burst has practiced midwifery in a variety of settings, been a service director in two, and was co-founder and president of the Family Childbirth Center in New Haven, Connecticut.
She has served the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) in numerous capacities including two terms as President from 1977-1981, Secretary from 1972-1974, Chair of the Bylaws Committee, Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on JCAH/DOD, Chair of the Division of Examiners, and as Chair of the Division of Accreditation. Ms. Burst has also served as the ACNM representative to the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) as well as to many national interdisciplinary and interorganizational meetings and advisory groups.
Helen Varney Burst received the ACNM Hattie Hemschemeyer Award in 1982, the 50th year of nurse-midwifery education in this country. She is recipient of alumni awards from all her alma maters: Yale University (MSN, 1963); University of Kansas (BSN, 1961); Kansas Sate University (BSHE, 1961). In 1987 she received a Doctor in Humane Letters (honoris causa) from Georgetown University.
She is currently conducting research to document the history and contributions of the Yale University School of Nursing and its faculty and alumnae/i and for a book on the history of nurse-midwifery in the United States.
History of Yale School of Nursing, Nurse-Midwifery
President, American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), 1977-81
Distinguished Alumna Award, Yale University School of Nursing, 1980
Hattie Hemschemeyer Award, ACNM, 1982
Alumnus of the Year, University of Kansas Nurses Alumni Association, 1983
Alumni Medallion Award, Kansas State University Alumni Association, 1985
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, Georgetown University, 1987
Distinguished Fellow and Founding Board of Governors, ACNM, 1993
Annie Goodrich Excellence in Teaching Award, YSN, 1999
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