On the 22nd of May we held our 2019 Gruber Fellowship in Global Justice and Women’s Rights event in the Yale School of Nursing Hub on a warm spring afternoon.
Each year the Gruber Program awards a number of fellowships to graduating Yale students and recent alumni. Gruber Fellowships in...
YSN is Celebrating Nurses Week
Mon, 05/06/2019
May 6-12 is National Nurses Week, with May 12 being the birthday of Florenece Nightingale. This year’s theme, choosen by the American Nurse Association, is “4 million reasons to celebrate”, regonizines the 4 million registered nurses enriching our lives today.
Check out our calendar for a...
Dr. Holly Kennedy on the Optimisation of Caesarean Sections in The Lancet
Tue, 10/16/2018
Dr. Holly Kennedy was one of the authors of an article published this week in the The Lancet on the short-term and long-term effects of caesarean section on the health of women and children. The three-part Lancet series on Optimising Caesarean Section Use reviews the global epidemiology and...
Yale nursing faculty honored by the Connecticut Nurses’ Association at the annual Diamond Jubilee Awards
Fri, 10/12/2018
Dr. Lois Sadler ’79 MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Dr. Jessica Coviello ’82 MSN, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, were honored at the Connecticut Nurses’ Association (CNA) annual Diamond Jubilee Awards dinner on October 10th following the organization’s annual conference in Cromwell, Connecticut. These prestigious...
Vanessa Correia ’19 presents Nutrition that Heals poster at Yale's Celebrate Sustainability week
Thu, 10/11/2018
Vanessa Correia presented her work on behalf of Yale School of Nursing at the Celebrate Sustainability reception on Wednesday, October 10 as part of a weeklong series of events hosted by individuals, departments, and groups across Yale to raise awareness and deepen campus engagement around...
Celebrating the 317th anniversary of Yale University
Tue, 10/09/2018
Yale School of Nursing’s “Have Bones, Will Travel” exhibit was part of today’s Yale Founders’ Day celebration on Cross Campus. Pictured here, Professor Linda Honan intrigues members of the Yale community with fascinating facts about human bones. This exhibit is regularly used to introduce...
Dr. Canhua Xiao inducted into American Academy of Nursing
Tue, 10/02/2018
Congratulations to Dr. Canhua Xiao, associate professor at YSN, who has been inducted into the American Academy of Nursing. She will be honored at a ceremony to be held during the Academy’s annual policy conference, Transforming Health, Driving Policy, which will take place in November in...
Mary Geary to receive 2018 AYA Leadership Award
Tue, 10/02/2018
Mary C. Geary ’74 MSN has been awarded the 2018 AYA Leadership Award for Volunteer Innovation and Service in recognition of her commitment to enhancing the student-alumni experience at Yale School of Nursing. She will receive the award at the AYA Assembly Awards Reception on November 8th.
On...
Three YSN doctoral students receive Jonas Scholarships
Mon, 10/01/2018
YSN doctoral students Dora Lendvai Wischik (PhD) and Sarah DeSilvey & Ty Perrier (DNPs) are recipients of the distinguished 2018 Jonas scholarships.
The scholarships are given by Jonas Philanthropies to improve the quality of healthcare by investing in nursing scholars whose research and...
Leading the (carbon) charge, Yalies attend global climate summit
Fri, 09/28/2018
Yale’s efforts to reduce and become carbon neutral by 2050 received international attention earlier this month when students, faculty, staff, and alumni participated in the Global Climate Action Summit. A gathering of world leaders, governors and mayors, CEOs and investors, NGOs, and youth and...
Sapana Patel '18 appointed director of Health Innovation & EntrepreNurseship
Fri, 09/28/2018
Sapana Patel, DNP ’18, has been appointed as the consulting director of Health Innovation & EntrepreNurseship at Northeastern University. In this role she will cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit required for innovation in healthcare by providing interdisciplinary education, opportunities...
YSN graduate's research study on primary care gap published in Health Affairs
Thu, 09/27/2018
Dr. Ulrike (Ulli) Muench, who received her MSN ‘05 and PhD ‘12 at Yale School of Nursing, had the results of a research study published in the September, 2018 issue of Health Affairs. Dr. Muench conducted the study along with Dr. Joanne Spetz, both of the Healthforce Center at the University of...
DNP’ 18 graduate appointed as hospital CEO
Thu, 09/27/2018
Dr. Aries Limbaga, who graduated from the Yale Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program in May of 2018, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles, California. Previously, Dr. Limbaga was the Chief Nursing Officer at the...
Changing the Paradigm in Dementia: The Role of Non-Pharmacological Strategies for Supporting a ‘Good Life.’
Mon, 09/24/2018
Join us on October 3rd at 12 noon at 47 College Street (room 106B), New Haven, for “Changing the Paradigm in Dementia: The Role of Non-Pharmacological Strategies for Supporting a ‘Good Life’ ”
The speaker will be Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, and...
Yale New Haven Health names inaugural chief nursing executive
Tue, 09/18/2018
Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) has named Beth P. Beckman, DNSc to serve as the inaugural chief nursing executive for health system. In this new role, Beckman will be responsible for developing and overseeing the system-wide integration plan for key components of nursing, including nursing practice...
Register for Scholars' Day on October 26th
Thu, 09/13/2018
Dr. Linda Schwartz, RN, DrPH, FAAN, former Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs, will be the esteemed keynote speaker at the annual YSN scholars’ day on Friday, October 26. Her talk will be entitled A Voice For Those Who Have No Voice. Following the talk, there will be...
Dean Kurth to speak at "Yale Explores Planetary Health" event
Thu, 09/13/2018
Dean Kurth will be one of the speakers at an upcoming Yale alumni event on October 3rd in Philadelphia. Yale Explores…Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Natural Systems on Which It Depends is part of a series of “Yale Explores” events, whose aim is to bring together the Yale...
Challenges for California nurses ready to fill primary care gap
Wed, 09/12/2018
Dr. Ulrike (Ulli) Muench, who received her MSN ‘05 and PhD ‘12 at Yale School of Nursing, had the results of a research study published in the September, 2018 issue of Health Affairs. Dr. Muench conducted the study along with Dr. Joanne Spetz, both of the Healthforce Center at the University of...
DNP’18 graduate appointed as hospital CEO
Tue, 09/11/2018
Dr. Aries Limbaga, who graduated from the Yale Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program in May of 2018, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles, California. Previously, Dr. Limbaga was the Chief Nursing Officer at the...
Abigail Wilpers, a PhD student at YSN, has been awarded the Edith M. Pritchard scholarship by Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Abigail was selected from a significant group of highly qualified candidates. The award recognizes her noteworthy academic and clinical practice, community service and...
Leading the Way for Advances in Healthcare: Naratils endow fund for nursing innovation
Tue, 09/04/2018
Established in 1923 as the first university-based nursing school, Yale School of Nursing (YSN) has a nearly century-long commitment to science and research. Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, dean and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of Nursing, is proud to uphold that tradition.
“Yale nurses lead the way in applying...
Elevating Nurses and Health Systems: Patricia Gruber supports the next generation of nurses at Yale
Tue, 09/04/2018
Nathan Christopherson ’18 DNP learned his trauma-management skills as a U.S. Army combat medic and trauma nurse in Iraq. Currently the assistant vice president of the Northwell Health Trauma Institute, Christopherson oversees eight trauma centers in the New York metropolitan area, with a mission to...
Welcoming eight new faculty to Yale School of Nursing
Sun, 09/02/2018
The Yale School of Nursing is delighted to introduce eight new faculty members whose collective expertise will build on the school’s deep teaching and research strengths.
Dr. Samantha Conley graduated from the PhD program at Yale School of Nursing in 2016 and joined the YSN faculty as an assistant...
Celebrating YSN’s new Simulation Lab and classroom space
Fri, 08/31/2018
On August 30, Yale School of Nursing celebrated the completion of the Simulation Lab and classroom expansion project at a ribbon cutting ceremony. Faculty, staff, students, community partners, and the many individuals who contributed to the project were present. Dean Ann Kurth cut the ribbon,...
Disaster simulation video: How Yale nursing students are preparing for real life catastrophes
Thu, 08/30/2018
In June, students at the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) engaged in a “disaster simulation” in which a tornado had destroyed a grocery store. Filmmakers from Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications created this insightful video which captures both how a simulation is executed, as well...
Dean Kurth's BBC interview about the U.S. drug epidemic
Tue, 08/28/2018
Dean Ann Kurth was one of two people interviewed live on the BBC World News today (8/28/18) regarding the U.S. drug epidemic. Speaking on the challenges of substance misuse as a global problem, Dean Kurth observed that nurses are very often on the front lines in communities suffering from opioid...
Jessica Coviello to receive the Florence S. Wald Award 2018
Mon, 08/27/2018
Dr. Jessica Coviello, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, associate professor at Yale University School of Nursing, has been chosen to receive the 2018 Florence S. Wald Award by the Connecticut Nurses’ Association (CNA). She has taught at the school since 1983 and for more than 30 years, her practice has focused...
New Yale-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to Train Leaders in Minority Health
Fri, 08/24/2018
With financial support from the Commonwealth Fund, the Yale School of Management will launch a program to give healthcare practitioners the leadership skills and the deep understanding of markets, organizations, and governments needed to tackle major inequities in the U.S. healthcare system. Read...
Artists wanted for City Wide Open Studios at West Campus
Fri, 08/24/2018
We are delighted that Artspace will be holding its 2018 City-Wide Open Studios “Alternative Space Weekend” at West Campus on October 26 - 28 at Building 410. Art, or our shared cultural heritage, has been a prominent feature since the earliest days of the Campus, and the 2018 theme of the Open...
A Call to Action: Addressing America’s Drug Epidemic
Fri, 08/17/2018
The following joint statement was posted on the Yale School of Public Health’s website on Friday, August 17th and was signed by faculty members from the Yale School of Nursing, Yale School of Public Health, and the Yale School of Medicine.
The drug poisonings of more than 100 people with “K2...
Yale School of Nursing responds to the overdose crisis in New Haven
Thu, 08/16/2018
Statement from Yale School of Nursing
It is with deep concern that we observe the situation unfolding in New Haven over the last 24 hours with close to one hundred people having overdosed from a synthetic form of marijuana called K2. This situation is not only distressing for our local community,...
Dr. Ruth McCorkle receives the American Academy of Nursing’s highest honor of “Living Legend”.
Thu, 08/09/2018
We are proud and thrilled to share the news that Yale School of Nursing’s Dr. Ruth McCorkle has received the American Academy of Nursing’s highest honor of “Living Legend”. The announcement was made today, August 9th, in a press release from the AAN – read the full release here. Dr. McCorkle, who...
National Student Leadership Conference: exploring potential careers in nursing at YSN
Thu, 08/02/2018
This summer, YSN hosted several groups of high school students from the National Student Leadership Council (NSLC) who spent a week at the school taking classes, and attending simulation events, in order to explore nursing as a possible career path.
The National Student Leadership Conference on...
A PNP student's journey into plant-based medicine: the story behind "Nutrition that Heals"
Thu, 07/26/2018
Vanessa Correia, RN, CLC, YSN ’19 (pictured on the right), is a second year MSN student, and teaching assistant to Michelle Kennedy (pictured left), lecturer of the Community Health Nursing and Public Health course for students in the first year of the Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN)...
A Salute to Dean Annie W. Goodrich on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I
Thu, 07/26/2018
As America and most of Europe prepares to commemorate the end of World War I, much attention is focused on the immense bravery, patriotic fervor, and unimaginable carnage which mark the history of that long and destructive ”War to End All Wars.” With visions of the gallantry of dogfights in the...
Simulation Lab ribbon cutting celebration, August 30
Wed, 07/25/2018
Join us on August 30 from 3:30-5:00 pm for a ribbon cutting ceremony & tour to celebrate the opening of the new simulation space. The school has been working with a great construction team over the spring/summer to create a state-of-the art simulation lab and two new classrooms. This capital...
Yale Nursing students create menu for better community health
Tue, 07/03/2018
“Sam is a 15 year old with type II diabetes. He eats a whole pizza every day, so we made him a smaller portion, with healthier ingredients.” Just one of the hypothetical patient scenarios – and a possible solution – concocted by Yale School of Nursing students recently as they took to the farm at...
Alison Moriarty Daley selected as a "Distinguished Nurse Leader" by AAN
Tue, 07/03/2018
Professor Alison Moriarty Daley was selected this week as one of the American Academy of Nursing’s 195 highly distinguished nurse leaders to be inducted into its 2018 class of Academy fellows. Alison will be honored at a ceremony to be held during the Academy’s annual policy conference...
RSVP for the YSN Faculty Boot Camp!
Tue, 07/03/2018
RSVP for our very first annual Faculty Development Boot Camp! Sessions will be held from Monday, August 13 through Thursday, August 16, from 8:30 am-5:00 pm at the Yale School of Nursing. Explore a broad range of topics through guided practice, hands-on activities, and collaborative discussions...
From music student to gerontology nurse: Elliott Race '18
Fri, 06/29/2018
There is one day left to give to the 2017-2018 annual fund scholarship campaign. Please consider a gift to help financially support deserving scholars such as Elliott Race ’18. Read his story here.
Elliott Race ’18 is a recent Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) graduate specialized in adult/...
