Nursing Entrepreneurs Launch Online Mental Health Practice to Address COVID-19 Needs
Tue, 06/23/2020
Dr. Pritma Dhillon-Chattha ’18 DNP, MHA, RN and Dr. Brighid A. Gannon ’18 DNP, PMHNP-BC first connected as classmates at YSN in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. Dhillon-Chattha owns a cosmetics injectables company among other ventures, and Gannon founded Ivy Psychiatry, a nursing home...
Vlahov Research Traces State Pandemic Response for People Who Use Drugs
Wed, 06/17/2020
David Vlahov, PhD, RN, FAAN, recently published the research paper “A Community Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Protecting the Health and Human Rights of People Who Use Drugs” for the Journal of Urban Healthwith Yale colleagues Robert Heimer, PhD of the School of Public Health...
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Welcomes New Members
Tue, 06/16/2020
The Yale School of Nursing community gathered virtually on June 3 to celebrate the new inductees of the Delta Mu chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International honor society.
Chapter President Andree de Lisser, ’79 MSN, DNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC addressed the crowd within the context of global health...
Simulation Technology Redirects Nursing Curriculum During COVID-19
Tue, 06/09/2020
As the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic spread with alarming ferocity during spring break, it became clear that students wouldn’t return to campus to finish the semester. The school needed to pivot to online instruction on a ticking clock, and the simulation experts jumped into action....
Racial Disparities of COVID-19 are a Consequence of Racist Social Structures
Mon, 06/08/2020
Associate Dean for Global Health and Equity LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FAAN recently coauthored the paper “Understanding COVID-19 Risks and Vulnerabilities among Black Communities in America: The Lethal Force of Syndemics” for the journal Annals of Epidemiology.The term “syndemic” refers...
YSN Stands in Solidarity with Black Communities
Fri, 06/05/2020
As the nation suffers the events of the past several weeks—events that have also occurred over the past four centuries of American history—YSN stands in solidarity with Black communities across the United States whose voices are front and center demanding an end to the existing system of anti-Black...
Since the beginning of her career as a professor of nursing in the Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing(GEPN) program, Linda Honan,’89 MSN, PhD, CNS-BC, RN, ANEF, FAAN has asked her students to journal their experience.
“When you write, you learn what you think about things. GEPN is so fast. I...
New Nursing Grad Cares for Oncology Patients During COVID-19
Wed, 06/03/2020
Brandon LaRoche ’20 DNP is the clinical nursing director for oncology/hematology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. LaRoche is certified as a progressive care nurse (PCCN) and a professional in patient safety (CPPS). He is also a recipient of the prestigious Yale School of Nursing Gruber Nursing...
How to Be a Patient With COVID-19: Advice from a Yale Nurse
Wed, 06/03/2020
Sana Goldberg ’20 MSN, RN published her first book, How to Be a Patient: The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine, last year. She focuses on patient agency and how patients can participate in their own care. Amid the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic, many of her...
Yale Nursing Student Shares How COVID-19 Changes Care Delivery
Tue, 06/02/2020
Vanessa Coppola ’22 DNP runs her own practice, Special Needs Primary Care, in New Jersey. As the sole practitioner, she provides consulting guidance to schools for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She is the founder of the grass roots coalition “Beauty for Autism,” an...
