YSN Continues Ascent in Rankings of Top-tier Nursing Schools
Tue, 03/14/2017
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Yale School of Nursing one of the nation’s leading nursing schools. YSN is now at number 6 in overall rankings representing a 13 place jump and number 8 in its Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, a remarkable accomplishment after having graduated only...
YSN Associate Professor to Become a FAANP
Mon, 03/13/2017
Geraldine Marrocco, EdD, APRN, CNS, ANP-BC, is the latest member of the Yale School of Nursing community to be selected as an American Association of Nurse Practitioners Fellow.
FAANPs impact the broader healthcare community by leading new initiatives and engaging with nurse practitioners to...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force – Attention to Populations
Thu, 03/09/2017
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has published a new paper explaining the rationale and process behind issuing population-specific recommendations.
USPSTF is an independent body of clinical experts charged with developing evidence-based guidelines for screening, preventive...
Yale School of Nursing Professor Honored with Hall of Fame Award
Tue, 03/07/2017
Yale School of Nursing’s Nancy Schmieder Redeker, Beatrice Renfield Term Professor of Nursing, has been awarded the prestigious Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Award.
The award recognizes nurse researchers who “have achieved significant and...
Commentary: Nurses at the Forefront of Precision Healthcare
Mon, 03/06/2017
“Because nurses are at the forefront of patient interactions, it seems only fitting that nurse scientists lead the charge in genomic research that can be translated from the bench to bedside and be the agent for change in health policy related to genomic screening recommendations worldwide.”
Yale...
YSN Students Receive Prestigious Nursing Scholarship
Fri, 03/03/2017
Two Yale School of Nursing PhD students have been selected to present to the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Emerging Scholars Forum in recognition of their early-career research and leadership.
Graduating PhD student, Shelli Feder, will be presenting on her research topic “Demographic and...
ACNM Recognizes School of Medicine Colleague
Mon, 02/27/2017
Yale School of Medicine’s Dr. Jessica L. Illuzzi, MD, MS, FACOG has been awarded the Louis M. Hellman Midwifery Partnership Award by the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
She is being recognized for her years of support for midwifery practice at Yale School of Medicine where she is an Associate...
Nurses’ Implementation of ECG Monitoring Practice Standards Improve Quality of Care & Patient Outcomes
Wed, 02/22/2017
Electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring is one of the most common technologies used in acute care and nurses, in particular, bear significant responsibility for the care of patients receiving this monitoring. A new study suggests that quality of care and patient outcomes improve significantly when...
Webber Award Winners Announced
Tue, 02/14/2017
YSN and Dean Ann Kurth are pleased to announce the recipients of the Webber Innovation Fund.
A total of 12 projects will be funded to benefit the YSN community and, in particular, our Graduate Entry Prespecialty Nursing (GEPN) students, thanks to the generous bequest of Clytie C. Webber (’46) who...
Why "Caring Matters Most"
Fri, 02/10/2017
When Yale School of Nursing faculty member and philosopher Mark Lazenby, PhD, APRN, FAAN was asked to give a series of lectures on nursing and the good of society in the spring of 2013, his research into that intimidatingly broad subject led him to the very foundation of nursing itself…through the...
