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New Yale Nurses and Midwives Embrace Tradition of Patient Care, Leadership

YSN welcomed family and friends to celebrate new nurses on October 6.
Wed, 11/09/2022
As she welcomed the crowd to the New Nurses Celebration on October 6, Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Associate Dean of Student Life Erin Morelli ’02 MSN, CNM, CLC, RN, FACNM, encouraged the nurses and midwives to look beyond a patient’s physical assessment to learn their individual story.  “When we...

Malerba ’15 DNP Offers Counsel as Mohegan Chief and Nurse

Dr. Lynn Malerba '15 DNP
Fri, 11/04/2022
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Associate Dean for Equity Dr. Angela Richard-Eaglin, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, CDE® recently connected with Dr. Lynn Malerba ’15 DNP, 18th Chief of the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut, to discuss nursing and healthcare topics. In September, Dr. Malerba was...

Office Hours with… Bridget Basile Ibrahim

Fri, 10/28/2022
By Mallory Locklear Before pursuing a career in nursing, Bridget Basile Ibrahim was an anthropologist. At their core, she says, the two fields are actually quite similar: They require one to take a holistic view of the person in front of you. Basile Ibrahim, who earned her Ph.D. at Yale School of...

Ramos Explores How A Virtual Environment Can Produce Cardiovascular Health Gains IRL

An avatar is pictured in the virtual environment.
Tue, 10/11/2022
Dr. S. Raquel Ramos, PhD, MBA, MSN, FNP-BC is Associate Professor at the Yale School of Nursing and jointly appointed at the Yale School of Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences. She was a former postdoctoral fellow at Yale Nursing in 2015. Her NHLBI-funded, five-year, career development...

Uganda Experience Proves Transformative for Midwifery Students

YSN students and three of their Ugandan preceptors--Monica, Joy, and Immaculate—pose in scrubs in a smiling group photo.
Wed, 10/05/2022
The journey to the birth center in Atiak, Uganda, takes the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) midwifery group nearly 24 hours on a plane from New York to Dubai to Kampala and then it takes a seven-hour drive to reach the constellation of birthing huts. But it gives so much more. “This trip was an...

Disaster Simulation Prepares Yale Nursing Students for Chaos

During the mass-casualty simulation, a runaway golf cart careened into a gas grill at a community cookout, prompting an explosion.
Fri, 09/30/2022
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Simulation Team spends every semester tailoring “sim” exercises to specific clinical and academic needs. The annual mass-casualty disaster simulation for Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) students serves as a cumulative assessment of everything they have...

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....