Clair Kaplan, MSN, RN, APRN(WHNP), MHS, MT(ASCP)

• Assistant Professor
• Adult, Family, Gerontological, and Women's Health Primary Care Specialty

Yale School of Nursing - Rm 288
100 Church Street South
P. O. Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536
USA

clair.kaplan@yale.edu

203.737.2822
203.785.6455 fax

About

Clair Kaplan joined the faculty at the Yale School of Nursing in the fall of 2004. She teaches N895a Clinical Pharmacology, N751a Antepartum Care for WHNPs, N551b Gynecologic Care and N562b Clinical Practice in Women's Healthcare. Her area of expertise is women's healthcare with a focus on family planning and STD/HIV prevention for especially vulnerable women. She holds a clinical joint appointment as the Director of Women's Healthcare Services at Cedarcrest Hospital, providing gynecologic care to women with serious and persistent mental illness and develops sexuality education and programming for men and women in two in-patient psychiatric facilities. She incorporates her background in healthcare ethics into the policy issues involved with the care and advocacy for this patient population, serving on ethics boards and IRBs, community advocacy boards and as a legislative liaison for the Connecticut Women and Disability Network. She also practices part-time as a per diem nurse practitioner with Planned Parenthood. Above all, as a member of this faculty she is very excited by the passion of students and colleagues at the Yale School of Nursing for addressing health disparities and incorporating a focus on gender equality and social justice into advanced practice nursing.

Her prior teaching experience includes undergraduate nursing research, pathophysiology and pharmacology, and graduate level women's health, health policy, and healthcare ethics. As a clinician, she developed her love for teaching as an adjunct, teaching bioethics in a graduate program at the University of Denver, women's health in a certificate WHNP program and in a physician assistant program, and nursing research at the University of Colorado. She describes herself as someone who is thrilled to have made a mid-life career change into nursing, incorporating over 20 years of varied experience in healthcare into her clinical practice and academic interests. She attained her nursing degrees in accelerated programs, which she feels makes her especially sensitive to the challenges faced by our GEPN students. Her pre-nursing education includes baccalaureate degrees in biology and laboratory medicine, and a master's degree in health policy, with emphasis and certification in healthcare ethics.

Research interests

From 1988-1992, during the height of the AIDS epidemic, she worked as a sexually transmitted disease clinician, developing many of the research interests that she holds and has expanded on today. She is especially interested in examining the causative factors and effective interventions associated with vulnerable women's unique risks for acquiring STD/HIV, as well as unwanted, unplanned or unprepared pregnancy. She is interested in the ethical dilemmas involved with the expression of sexuality in hospitalized psychiatric inpatients and the role of contraception and pregnancy in the lives and recovery journeys of seriously and persistently psychiatrically ill women. She has been interested in the ethical conduct of research for many years and has chaired and served on various IRBs. She has worked on over 40 research projects as a research director, research coordinator, project manager, and as a member of a grant-writing team.

Selected Presentations

APRN, Policy Advocate and Institutional Educator: Creation of a Unique Opportunity in Connecticut [Peer-reviewed abstract accepted for podium presentation.] Presented February 15, 2006, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Faculty Practice Conference, San Antonio, Texas, February 15-16, 2006.

Disabled Women and Gynecologic Care: Activism and Policy Innovation From Connecticut. [Peer-reviewed abstract of paper and talk accepted for panel.] Presented June 21, 2005, Institute for Women's Policy Research's (IWPR) Eight International Women's Policy Research Conference, Washington, D.C.

IUD presentation and insertion training, [Invited presentation], Presented May 26, 2005. Medical residents, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT.

Why Feminism Matters in Providing Healthcare for Women with Disabilities/Women's Health and a Feminist Model of Care, [Peer reviewed abstract accepted for poster presentation.] Presented March 5, 2005, New England Women's Studies Conference 2005: Performing Activism, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA.

IUD presentation and insertion training, [Invited presentation]. Presented February 7, 2005. Nurse practitioners and medical residents, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT.

Vulnerable Women and Domestic Violence - Making it Stop, [Peer-reviewed abstract accepted.] Presented October 23, 2004. Women Power and Politics Conference, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.

Conundrums in Women's Healthcare, [Invited Keynote Speaker], Presented October 29, 2004. Bi-annual state conference, Connecticut Nurse Practitioner Group Inc. (CNPGI).

Incarceration, Substance Abuse, and the Unmet Needs for Women's Healthcare, [Peer-reviewed abstract accepted.] Presented April 3, 2004, NEWSA (New England Women's Studies Association) Annual Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Taking a sensitive history with sexually diverse clients. [Invited speaker for panel presentation], Presented March 16th, 2004. Second-year students, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT.

What's it Really Like?: Nurse Practitioner Practice with Women who are Substance Using/Abusing, Mentally Ill, and/or in the Criminal Justice System, [Invited Speaker]. Presented March 3, 2004, Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT.

IRB 101: Human Subjects Ethics Review Boards in the Academic Setting, [Invited Speaker/Workshop]. Presented February 18, 2004, Faculty development day all-faculty workshop, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT.

Assessment of the GWYN (Go Where You're Needed) Program, and Evaluation of Reproductive Health Needs of Women and Girls Involved in the Criminal Justice System.[Peer-reviewed abstract accepted] Presented May 14th, 2003, with Lisa Sydow, MA, Department of Health and Human Services, Promising Practices: Linking Health and Criminal Justice for Women and Girls, Denver, Colorado.

On The Table: Re-examining the Reproductive Healthcare Needs of Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System. [Peer-reviewed abstract accepted.] Presented April 4, 2003, June Baker Higgens Gender Studies Conference, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT.

Domestic Violence: An overview with special emphasis on needs for women in substance abuse treatment and dually diagnosed with severe mental illness. [Invited Speaker.] Presented December 4, 2003, to State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

Special health care needs of addicted women in substance abuse treatment. [Invited Speaker]. Presented November 25, 2003, to State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

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