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Gustavo T. Herrera ’24 DNP: Tackling Implicit Bias Through Pediatric Liver Donation Protocols

Sat, 05/18/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Marquirsha Claxton ’24 MSN: New Havener Finds More To Explore at YSN

Fri, 05/17/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Jill Perri Day ’24 DNP: Fostering Community Among Transgender Teens

Fri, 05/17/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

For one mother and son, parallel paths led to Yale School of Nursing

Fri, 05/17/2024
By Mallory Locklear For Vanessa Landegger and her son Dylan Antonioli, nursing has become a family affair — even if they each took their own routes getting there. Vanessa Landegger and her son, Dylan Antonioli. Twenty-three years ago, soon after starting medical school, Vanessa Landegger made the...

Katie Jackson ’24 MSN: Air Force Veteran Pivots to Midwifery

Thu, 05/16/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Jonathan Donevant ’24 DNP: Using AI Tools To Make Hospitals Safer

Thu, 05/16/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Cheryl Canty ’24 MSN: Diabetes Concentration Sets YSN Apart

Thu, 05/16/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Inga Runstrom ’24 MSN: Member of Alaska Native Tribe Brings Midwifery Care Home

Thu, 05/16/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Marsha Sinanan ’24 DNP: Supporting Black and Brown Nurses After Experiencing Racism in Acute Care Settings

Wed, 05/15/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Bar Hass ’24 MSN: Former Teacher Shares Advice for Differently-Abled Students

Wed, 05/15/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Michaela Serafica ’24 MSN: Putting the Global Health Track Into Practice

Wed, 05/15/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Roxanne Wright ’24 MSN: Bringing the Law and Parenthood Into a Midwifery Career

Tue, 05/14/2024
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Class of 2024 holds the distinction of earning diplomas during the school’s centennial year. As graduating students prepare for the conferral of degrees on May 20, YSN is checking in with just a few of the extraordinary students adding hoods to their regalia this...

Yale Nursing Alumni Share Advice for the Class of 2024

Mon, 05/13/2024
Preparations are currently underway for Yale University’s 323rd commencement, a tradition that includes splendid pageantry, meticulously planned tulip patterns, and a cloud of confetti streaming down onto the apricot velvet hoods of Yale School of Nursing (YSN) graduates. In preparation for the...

4 YSN Students Earn Prizes at Health Professions Creative Writing and Art Contest

Fri, 05/10/2024
Four Yale School of Nursing (YSN) students took top prizes in prose and poetry and earned honorable mention status at the 2024 Program for Humanities in Medicine (PHM) Health Professions Creative Medical Writing and Art Contest. Recipients were honored on May 2 at the Child Study Center in New...

Yale Nursing Welcomes Healthcare Equity Advocate Ben Danielson as Commencement Speaker

Dr. Ben Danielson
Wed, 05/08/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is delighted to welcome Dr. Ben Danielson, professor of practice at the University of Washington, as the 2024 commencement speaker at the diploma ceremony. “Nurses are the backbone of healthcare, and I am honored to address the next generation of Yale’s nurse and...

Nurses in Action: Hass ’24 MSN and Manbauman ’25 MSN Accompany Dr. Sadak to Capitol Hill

(Left to right) Craig Manbauman ’25 MSN, Deputy Dean Tatiana Sadak, and Bar Hass ’24 MSN, recently engaged with legislative staff on healthcare policy.
Tue, 04/23/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Family Nurse Practitioner students Bar Hass ’24 MSN and Craig Manbauman ’25 MSN swapped their scrubs for Capitol Hill clothes when they accompanied Deputy Dean Tatiana Sadak, PhD, PMHNP, RN, FAAN to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Advocacy Hill...

Pediatrics Lecturer Elyse Borsuk ’90 MSN (1961 – 2024)

Tue, 04/02/2024
With profound sadness, Yale School of Nursing (YSN) shares the news of the passing of Elyse Borsuk ’90 MSN, CPNP-PC, APRN, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner specialty faculty member. Professor Borsuk died suddenly on March 31 due to a severe acute illness. “Elyse served the YSN community for many...

YSN Student Captains Winning Team at Global Health Competition

Mon, 04/01/2024
By Fran Fried Members of a team from the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) pose with judges after winning the prestigious Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition. From left: judge Phil Jacobs of Pendleton Consulting; judge Susan Maloney, MD, of the Centers for Disease Control and...

Creative Writing Awards Judges Include Pulitzer Winner Quindlen

Fri, 03/15/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is delighted to announce the four judges of the Creative Writing Awards (CWA): Centennial Edition, which is collecting poetry and prose entries through March 25. Anna Quindlen Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her New York Times column “Public...

Yale School of Nursing Centennial Trivia Winners Announced, Answers Revealed

Wed, 03/13/2024
Hundreds of people participated in the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) centennial trivia quest, drawing interest from undergraduates, graduate students across the university, alumni from almost every professional school, members of the general public, and staff in a wide variety of roles. Two winners...