Karla A. Knight ‘77

90 Outstanding Yale Nurses Recipient

Class of 1977

Karla Knight, MSN, never intended to be in healthcare, but after enrolling in YSN’s first GEPN class, she was inspired by the faculty at the School. She fell in love with pediatrics and worked as a pediatric nurse practitioner in private practice, acute care, and long-term care until deciding to be a writer. Karla went on to write about nurses and their varied, exciting work in Nursing Spectrum for almost 10 years. Many of her stories were about YSN graduates and faculty. Karla has co-authored two peer-reviewed books on menopause and osteoporosis, and for the past five years, she has been working for a health IT corporation and writing clinical content on molecular diagnostics and specialty drugs.

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