YSN Student Advocates for Marginalized Communities During COVID-19
Thu, 05/28/2020
Taina Lopez-Cartagena ’22 DNP is a Family Nurse Practitioner at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in the Bronx, New York, which provides care for a high minority and immigrant population. She is an avid volunteer and an adjunct nursing professor at New York University, and she is also a...
DNP Student Fighting COVID in Boston: ‘We WILL Get Through This Together’
Tue, 05/26/2020
Carlie Martinez ’22 DNP is an internal medicine/urgent care nurse practitioner at Boston Medical Center and is an instructor at Boston University School of Medicine. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Yale School of Nursing Gruber Nursing Fellowship.
This is part of an occasional series of...
From the Peace Corps to the VA: Improving Health Systems
Fri, 05/22/2020
During her service in the Peace Corps, Julie Womack ’94 MSN, ’08 PhD, CNM, FNP-BC, witnessed a heavily pregnant woman walk 80 miles to labor for a week only to lose her baby and then die herself. In that instance, Womack found her call to nursing. “There’s got to be a better way,” she thought, so...
Greening and Adapting Health Systems
Fri, 05/22/2020
Dean Ann Kurth speaks at the World Economic Forum at Davos on building resilient health systems
The conversation on climate change has accelerated greatly in the last few years. With greater understanding of the timeline and interconnected nature of climate change impacts, Yale School of Nursing...
School-Based Health Center Provides Care to New Haven Students
Fri, 05/22/2020
Alison Moriarty Daley ’94 MSN, PhD, APRN, PPCNP-BC, FAAN has been treating high school students for longer than most of them have been alive. Daley, a pediatric nurse practitioner and associate professor at Yale School of Nursing (YSN), spends three days a week at Hill Regional Career High School...
YSN Faculty Midwifery Practice Puts the Patient at the Center Of Care
Fri, 05/22/2020
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) midwifery program, established in 1956, is the oldest in the country and offers students integration into a variety of midwifery practices alongside YSN faculty.
With practices based at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), the Women’s Center at YNHH (WCYNHH), the YNHH...
John Kerry Speaks at Inaugural Yale Institute of Global Health Event
Fri, 05/22/2020
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 B.A., ’17 L.L.D.H. said the United States must reassert itself as a global leader if we are to address the threat of climate change and other global health challenges in a world steeped in political discord.
During the first in a series of global...
YSN Student on COVID-19 Front Lines in Detroit
Thu, 05/21/2020
Erin Micale ’21 DNP is a float RN working in the Ascension Healthcare systems in Detroit, Michigan. She also teaches psychiatric nursing, medical-surgical nursing, health assessment, evidence based practice, and immersion clinical courses at Madonna University. She is also a recipient of the...
DNP Student Spotlight
Wed, 05/20/2020
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at Yale School of Nursing focuses on leadership and policy and is designed for mid-career nurses who seek to become innovative health care leaders. For their capstone projects, students are immersed in real-world health care situations and use their...
On the COVID-19 Frontlines: YSN DNP Student in Los Angeles
Tue, 05/19/2020
Samantha Ramirez’22 DNP is a nurse practitioner for the liver transplant program at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Yale School of Nursing Gruber Nursing Fellowship. The following is an account of her experience...
