THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT, but you can still sponsor a student or donate to Yale School of Nursing’s Creative Writing Awards, to be held on Thursday, April 18 from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm. The event will be held at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. This year’s featured speaker is Theresa Brown.
Theresa Brown, BSN, RN, works as a clinical nurse in Pittsburgh. Her most recent book, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives, was a New York Times Bestseller. In addition to being a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Theresa’s writing has also been published on CNN.com, in The American Journal of Nursing, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Theresa has appeared as a guest on MSNBC Live and NPR’s Fresh Air. Her first book Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between chronicles her initial year of nursing and has been adopted as a textbook in schools of nursing across the country. Theresa earned her BSN from the University of Pittsburgh, and, during what she calls her past life, she received a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. In addition to her clinical work in hospice, Theresa is on the Advisory Board of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and she lectures nationally and internationally on issues related to nursing, health care, and end of life.
One of the assignments for Yale nursing students during their first clinical experience is to begin a journal. Through their journal they can watch their own transformation. Through their writing we can understand contemporary nursing and midwifery through the eyes, hands, and feelings of these remarkable students and soon-to-be APRNs.
YSN’s annual Creative Writing Awards are enlivened by the inspirational presence of Professor Linda Honan. Yale nursing students submit their narratives, journal entries, and other creative writing for consideration for one of three significant student awards. This annual gathering, beloved by our community, also features prominent writers and thinkers.