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Kennedy Named Interim Dean of Yale School of Nursing

Holly Powell Kennedy is an internationally known midwife.
Fri, 09/23/2022
By Kevin Dennehy Holly Powell Kennedy, an internationally renowned midwifery investigator and educator at Yale School of Nursing, will serve as the school’s interim dean while the university conducts a search for a successor to outgoing Dean Ann Kurth, President Peter Salovey recently announced....

An Advice Columnist, an Opera Singer, and a Girl Scout Walk into Yale Nursing…

The 2020 Orientation Leaders guide new students through their first week at YSN.
Mon, 08/22/2022
Have you heard this one? An advice columnist, an opera singer, and a Girl Scout walk into Yale School of Nursing (YSN). Punchline: they all serve as Orientation Leaders (OLs) for the incoming class of Yale nurses and midwives.  This group represents the wide range of experience YSN students bring...

Public health policy conversations rarely include nurses. They should.

Jennifer Morone
Tue, 08/16/2022
This piece was originally publishin in YaleNews. By Mallory Locklear The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role nurses play in health care — millions of nurses worldwide have been essential administers of care on the front lines of the global health crisis. Yet in debate around public...

Yale Nursing Celebrates Faculty and Alumni Reaching FAAN Career Milestone

Mon, 08/01/2022
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) recently celebrated the selection of three faculty for Fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN): Associate Professor Dr. Soohyun Nam, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, FAHA, Associate Professor Dr. Gina Novick ’83 MSN, ’09 PhD, CNM, FACNM, and Associate Clinical Faculty Dr...

YSN Concludes Newborns in Need with NICU Gifts, Blood Pressure Cuffs

Wed, 06/29/2022
Yale School of Nursing Alumni Association (YSNAA) recently concluded the Newborns in Need project by delivering baby books to the Yale New Haven Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and securing blood pressure cuffs for expectant parents. Newborns in Need launched in 2017 and has been...

Yale Nursing's Malerba ’15 DNP Will Make History as First Native American US Treasurer

Lynn Malerba ’15 DNP (left) helps drape President Barack Obama in a blanket at the White House Tribal Nations Conference in 2016. Photo credit: Pete Souza.
Thu, 06/23/2022
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) alumnus Dr. Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba ’15 DNP will make history as the first Native American to serve as Treasurer of the United States, and when her signature appears on the nation’s currency, it will be the first inked by a Tribal leader and Native American woman. Dr....

Yale Nursing Honors Essential Partners: Preceptors

GEPN Preceptor of the Year Winner Peggy Sawyer (third from right), was cheered on at the ceremony by students she has precepted.
Tue, 06/21/2022
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) saluted preceptors in every specialty and the Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) program at the 4th Annual Preceptor Appreciation Day and award ceremony on June 10. The celebration honored the unique role of preceptors in nursing: these clinicians volunteer...