National Student Nurses Day Spotlight: Christa Varnadoe, BS, RN, OCN
Fri, 05/08/2020
Today is National Student Nurses Day, and we are thrilled to highlight Christa Varnadoe, BS, RN, OCN. Christa will graduate later this month from the Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Specialty. As the COVID-19 pandemic began to take shape, Christa was moved to write a piece...
In the Media: ONS Voice: COVID-19 Reminds Us That Nurses Are Health Diplomats for Humanity
Thu, 04/23/2020
Yale School of Nursing student Christa Varnadoe, BS, RN, OCN, published a Letter to the Editor in Oncology Nursing Society’s “ONS Voice.” Varnadoe is a master of science candidate in the Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Specialty.
“To save lives, nurses demand accountability from...
DeLauro Cites YSN Research to Expand SNAP
Thu, 04/23/2020
Earlier this month, Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro cited research coauthored by Margaret L. Holland, PhD, MPH, MS in a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture advocating for the expansion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during COVID-19 (coronavirus disease)....
Palliative Care Principles Can Ease COVID-19 Challenges
Tue, 04/21/2020
Yale School of Nursing faculty members Dena Schulman-Green, PhD (left) and Shelli Feder, PhD, APRN, NP-BC, ACHPN (center) recently partnered with Kathleen M. Akgün, MD, MS (right) from Yale School of Medicine to publish a set of palliative care strategies clinicians can use while fighting the COVID...
Vlahov Research Recommends COVID-19 Path Forward in Slums
Tue, 04/21/2020
In early April, Professor of Nursing and PhD Program Director David Vlahov, PhD, RN, FAAN, coauthored “Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 & Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements.” Vlahov is also the founding president of the International Society for Urban Health, a multi-...
In The Media: Hartford Courant: We will need nurses to get us through COVID-19 — and the next pandemic
Sat, 04/18/2020
Dean Ann Kurth: We have a finite number of nurses, and we must make sure they are protected.
Yale Health Experts on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tue, 04/14/2020
Yale School of Nursing Dean Ann Kurth (left) and Saad Omer (right), director of the Yale Institute for Global Health and adjunct professor nursing, joined Yale University President Peter Salovey (center) for the fourth episode of Yale Talkin a conversation about COVID-19 response and the immediate...
In The Media: WNYC: Pregnancy in the Time of COVID-19
Thu, 04/02/2020
YSN Lecturer Sascha James-Conterelli, DNP, CNM, FACNM, President of the New York State Association of Licensed Midwives, and co-chair of Governor Cuomo’s Maternal Mortality and Racial Disparities Task Force and Elisabeth Benjamin, Vice President of Health Initiatives at the Community Service...
Principles on Holistic Admission and Spring 2020 Grades
Tue, 03/31/2020
Recognizing the challenges to teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Provost and Deans of Yale University adopted the following principle:
Yale’s admissions offices for graduate and professional schools evaluate applicants holistically and will take the significant disruptions of...
Yale leaders talk about COVID-19: School of Nursing Dean Ann Kurth
Tue, 03/31/2020
Dean Ann Kurth discusses how the Yale School of Nursing is responding to this crisis and how nurses are uniquely positioned to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
