YSN Alumni Appointed to Yale Alumni Association Board
Fri, 06/26/2020
Lydia Cristobal ’16 DNP (left) and Stephan Davis ’16 DNP (right) have both been appointed to serve on the Yale Alumni Association (YAA) Board. Dr. Cristobal, who currently serves as the YAA Assembly Appointed At-Large Delegate, takes on the additional role of a YAA Board of Governors Representative...
Congratulations to the Class of 2020!
Mon, 05/18/2020
Congratulations to the 134 degree recipients in the Class of 2020! Today’s virtual celebration included encouraging remarks from Dean Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN and student speaker Danielle Um ’20 MSN. The class is comprised of 115 Master of Science in Nursing candidates, 16 Doctor of...
PhD Students Defend Their Theses
Fri, 03/27/2020
Congrats to Bridget Basile Ibrahim and Krista Knudson, who defended and passed their PhD dissertation defenses. Ibrahim presented “Pregnancy after Cesarean: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Women’s Experiences in a Diverse U.S. Sample” on Thursday, January 30. Knudson presented “Patient and Family...
Breazeale represents YSN at the Three Minute Thesis preliminary competition
Fri, 03/27/2020
Stephen Breazeale represented YSN in the Three Minute Thesis preliminary competition with his presentation on recognizing mental health symptoms in those with traumatic physical injuries. Over the course of his research and work as nurse, he said “it has become obvious that in addition to treating...
Yale Nursing ranks 6th in the world
Wed, 03/04/2020
Yale School of Nursing ranks sixth in the world, per the QS World University Rankings in nursing. Of the top ten schools of nursing in the listing, half are United States (US) schools. The QS ranking system uses six metrics: academic reputation; employer reputation; faculty/student ratio; citations...
Sana Goldberg ’20 MSN Publishes First Book
Sat, 12/14/2019
When Sana Goldberg ’20 MSN, RN, first started working on her new book, How to Be a Patient: The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine, she expected that its final form would be a concise booklet. “Maybe something you would find in the hospital gift shop,” she said. But as she...
YSN Team Excites with New Nursing Applications
Sat, 12/14/2019
Working with partners across campus, acute care Yale School of Nursing (YSN) student Travis McCann ’20 MSN is pursuing two exciting projects to help providers become better clinicians. His team has developed a visual and auditory hallucinations app that allows participants to better appreciate the...
Nurses Climate Challenge!
Tue, 08/27/2019
Scientists have said we have limited time to make major societal change to stop global warming/climate damage and the resulting extreme weather, coastal flooding, shifting disease patterns, pollution, food and water stresses1. As the nation’s most trusted profession and largest workforce, nurses...
Diabetes Program Utilizes Texting
Thu, 08/15/2019
YSN faculty member Robin Whittemore PhD, APRN, FAAN felt drawn to the culture of Mexico early on in her first RN job in San Diego, California. She has made myriad trips since that first one many years ago, and during her recent sabbatical she combined a research focus on preventing and treating...
From the US Navy to Yale University: A Chat with Dr. LaRon E. Nelson
Wed, 07/10/2019
Dr. LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FAAN arrived at YSN in early 2019 as the Inaugural Associate Dean for Global Health & Equity. He earned his doctorate from the University of Rochester, where he also served as the Dean’s Endowed Fellow in Health Disparities and Associate Director of...
