Assistant Professor of Nursing Michelle Telfer DNP, MPH, CNM, FACNM recently spoke to NPR about post-partum care for the article “Efforts To Reduce COVID-19’s Spread Could Impact Health Outcomes For New Mothers And Infants.” Telfer is the current Vice President of the CT Affiliate of the American...
Womack, Redeker Publish Study on Serious Falls in Veterans
Mon, 09/14/2020
Associate Professor Julie Womack ’94 MSN, ’08 PhD, CNM, FNP-BC and Beatrice Renfield Term Professor of Nursing Nancy S. Redeker PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN recently published the paper “Serious Falls in Middle‐Aged Veterans: Development and Validation of a Predictive Risk Model” in the Journal of the...
In the Media: Saad B. Omer on Vaccines, Herd Immunity
Thu, 09/10/2020
Dr. Saad B. Omer MBBS, MPH, PhD, FIDSA, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, recently shared his expertise with multiple media outlets on topics related to COVID-19. Omer discussed the high expectations for a vaccine with The Washington Post, and advocated for a massive-scale...
YSN in the Media: Vlahov
Wed, 09/09/2020
YSN Professor David Vlahov PhD, RN, FAAN recently shared his expertise as a nurse, an epidemiologist, and an infectious disease authority with multiple media outlets. He discussed how winter will impact social distancing and the spread of COVID-19 with The Atlantic, and his comments were included...
Kurth, Davis Contribute to Report on Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination
Wed, 09/02/2020
Dean Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN, and Stephan Davis ’16 DNP, MHSA, NEA-BC, CENP, CNE, FACHE contributed to a new report released today from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. The document issues a set of recommendations to guide health care leaders and professionals on how to address...
YSN Equips New Students for Fall Lab Courses
Mon, 08/31/2020
In socially distant groups of 12 people per hour, new students eagerly arrived on campus recently to check in, pick up supplies, and find the perfect fit for their N95 masks.
Among the materials for the incoming Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) students is a handsome YSN duffel bag...
Back to School: Preparing the YSN Building for Occupants
Mon, 08/31/2020
Returning to campus in the COVID-19 era requires abiding by a novel set of social norms like wearing masks in public and maintaining six feet of distance between classmates. But when it comes to the physical spaces of the school itself, safety protocols are even more extensive.
Marcia Thomas,...
Congratulations to Three New YSN FAANs
Fri, 08/28/2020
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is thrilled to congratulate the new class of distinguished Fellows in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). This year’s class of 230 nurse leaders includes three YSN affiliates: Beth Beckman DNSc, FAAN associate dean for partnerships at YSN; associate professor of...
YSN Embraces New Students, Virtual Opportunities
Tue, 08/18/2020
What does pop chart crooner Michael Bublé have to do with the stethoscope world of Yale School of Nursing (YSN)? New students are finding out with a little help from Janene Batten and the library—but definitely not Google!—as YSN faculty, students, and staff bring a fully intact sense of humor to a...
In the Media: Oncology Nursing News: Immune-Related Adverse Events: Know What to Look for and How to Act
Sun, 08/16/2020
Assistant Professor of Nursing Marianne J. Davies, ’87 MSN, ’00 PMC, DNP, RN, APRN, CNS-BC, ACNP-BC, AOCNP, shared advice on why nurses should familiarize themselves with immune-related adverse events (irAEs) and how to discuss them with patients. The interview was conducted during the 4th Annual...
In the Media: New York Times: She Was Pregnant With Twins During Covid. Why Did Only One Survive?
Thu, 08/13/2020
YSN Lecturer and Chair-elect of the GEPN Program Sascha James-Conterelli, DNP, CNM, FACNM, talked to the New York Times in her capacity as President of the New York State Association of Licensed Midwives and co-chair of Governor Cuomo’s Maternal Mortality and Racial Disparities Task Force. The...
Dr. LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FAAN, Dr. Saad B. Omer MBBS, MPH, PhD, FIDSA, and Dr. Robin Whittemore, PhD, APRN, FAAN, are serving on working groups established by the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) to address the priorities identified in the University Science Strategy Committee (USSC)...
Vlahov Partners with NYU for COVID-19 Research on Transit Workers
Thu, 07/30/2020
David Vlahov, PhD, RN, FAAN is contributing his expertise as a nurse, an epidemiologist, and infectious disease authority to a team with the NYU School of Global Public Health to study the impact of COVID-19 on New York City’s transit workers.
“Our research will assess the health risks transit...
Need a Nurse for That? Listen to YSN Alum’s Podcast
Tue, 07/21/2020
Angelarosa DiDonato ’18 DNP has an oft-repeated saying: “I have a nurse for that!” And if you listen to her Amplify Nursing podcast, you can hear how true that is.
An early episode features a chat with retired Rear Admiral Karen Flaherty-Oxler, MSN, RN, the first woman CEO of the Corporal Michael J...
YSN Exceeds Annual Fund Goal for 2019-2020 Campaign
Fri, 07/17/2020
Thank you to the many YSN alumni and friends who helped us exceed our $165,000 goal for the
2019-2020 Annual Fund campaign! These funds will address critical current needs, such as increased financial aid and enhanced resources for teaching and research.
Surpassing our goal wouldn’t have been...
From Engineering to Nursing, Cisco Partnership Yields Face Shields
Wed, 07/15/2020
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) recently received 1,000 injection-molded face shields, the result of a collaboration with Cisco.
John Marshall, Distinguished Engineer and founding member of the Cisco volunteer team, said the partnership with YSN began in the Department of Computer Science. Assistant...
Nelson addresses Anti-black racism, COVID-19 inequities during International Conference
Mon, 07/13/2020
On July 10, YSN Associate Dean for Global Health & Equity Dr. LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FAAN participated in a panel during the International AIDS Society COVID-19 Conference, a virtual meeting that also featured Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx. During the presentation, “Anti-...
Yale School of Nursing Launches COVID-19 Toolkit Website
Fri, 06/26/2020
Over the past two months, Yale School of Nursing (YSN) has been working to identify resources to support providers in lower-resourced settings during the global COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic. The result of those efforts is the COVID-19 Nursing Toolkit.
“By April, it became clear that we...
Nursing Entrepreneurs Launch Online Mental Health Practice to Address COVID-19 Needs
Tue, 06/23/2020
Dr. Pritma Dhillon-Chattha ’18 DNP, MHA, RN and Dr. Brighid A. Gannon ’18 DNP, PMHNP-BC first connected as classmates at YSN in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. Dhillon-Chattha owns a cosmetics injectables company among other ventures, and Gannon founded Ivy Psychiatry, a nursing home...
Vlahov Research Traces State Pandemic Response for People Who Use Drugs
Wed, 06/17/2020
David Vlahov, PhD, RN, FAAN, recently published the research paper “A Community Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Protecting the Health and Human Rights of People Who Use Drugs” for the Journal of Urban Healthwith Yale colleagues Robert Heimer, PhD of the School of Public Health...
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Welcomes New Members
Tue, 06/16/2020
The Yale School of Nursing community gathered virtually on June 3 to celebrate the new inductees of the Delta Mu chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International honor society.
Chapter President Andree de Lisser, ’79 MSN, DNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC addressed the crowd within the context of global health...
Simulation Technology Redirects Nursing Curriculum During COVID-19
Tue, 06/09/2020
As the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic spread with alarming ferocity during spring break, it became clear that students wouldn’t return to campus to finish the semester. The school needed to pivot to online instruction on a ticking clock, and the simulation experts jumped into action....
Racial Disparities of COVID-19 are a Consequence of Racist Social Structures
Mon, 06/08/2020
Associate Dean for Global Health and Equity LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FAAN recently coauthored the paper “Understanding COVID-19 Risks and Vulnerabilities among Black Communities in America: The Lethal Force of Syndemics” for the journal Annals of Epidemiology.The term “syndemic” refers...
YSN Stands in Solidarity with Black Communities
Fri, 06/05/2020
As the nation suffers the events of the past several weeks—events that have also occurred over the past four centuries of American history—YSN stands in solidarity with Black communities across the United States whose voices are front and center demanding an end to the existing system of anti-Black...
Since the beginning of her career as a professor of nursing in the Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing(GEPN) program, Linda Honan,’89 MSN, PhD, CNS-BC, RN, ANEF, FAAN has asked her students to journal their experience.
“When you write, you learn what you think about things. GEPN is so fast. I...
New Nursing Grad Cares for Oncology Patients During COVID-19
Wed, 06/03/2020
Brandon LaRoche ’20 DNP is the clinical nursing director for oncology/hematology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. LaRoche is certified as a progressive care nurse (PCCN) and a professional in patient safety (CPPS). He is also a recipient of the prestigious Yale School of Nursing Gruber Nursing...
How to Be a Patient With COVID-19: Advice from a Yale Nurse
Wed, 06/03/2020
Sana Goldberg ’20 MSN, RN published her first book, How to Be a Patient: The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine, last year. She focuses on patient agency and how patients can participate in their own care. Amid the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic, many of her...
Yale Nursing Student Shares How COVID-19 Changes Care Delivery
Tue, 06/02/2020
Vanessa Coppola ’22 DNP runs her own practice, Special Needs Primary Care, in New Jersey. As the sole practitioner, she provides consulting guidance to schools for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She is the founder of the grass roots coalition “Beauty for Autism,” an...
YSN Student Advocates for Marginalized Communities During COVID-19
Thu, 05/28/2020
Taina Lopez-Cartagena ’22 DNP is a Family Nurse Practitioner at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in the Bronx, New York, which provides care for a high minority and immigrant population. She is an avid volunteer and an adjunct nursing professor at New York University, and she is also a...
DNP Student Fighting COVID in Boston: ‘We WILL Get Through This Together’
Tue, 05/26/2020
Carlie Martinez ’22 DNP is an internal medicine/urgent care nurse practitioner at Boston Medical Center and is an instructor at Boston University School of Medicine. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Yale School of Nursing Gruber Nursing Fellowship.
This is part of an occasional series of...
From the Peace Corps to the VA: Improving Health Systems
Fri, 05/22/2020
During her service in the Peace Corps, Julie Womack ’94 MSN, ’08 PhD, CNM, FNP-BC, witnessed a heavily pregnant woman walk 80 miles to labor for a week only to lose her baby and then die herself. In that instance, Womack found her call to nursing. “There’s got to be a better way,” she thought, so...
Greening and Adapting Health Systems
Fri, 05/22/2020
Dean Ann Kurth speaks at the World Economic Forum at Davos on building resilient health systems
The conversation on climate change has accelerated greatly in the last few years. With greater understanding of the timeline and interconnected nature of climate change impacts, Yale School of Nursing...
School-Based Health Center Provides Care to New Haven Students
Fri, 05/22/2020
Alison Moriarty Daley ’94 MSN, PhD, APRN, PPCNP-BC, FAAN has been treating high school students for longer than most of them have been alive. Daley, a pediatric nurse practitioner and associate professor at Yale School of Nursing (YSN), spends three days a week at Hill Regional Career High School...
YSN Faculty Midwifery Practice Puts the Patient at the Center Of Care
Fri, 05/22/2020
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) midwifery program, established in 1956, is the oldest in the country and offers students integration into a variety of midwifery practices alongside YSN faculty.
With practices based at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), the Women’s Center at YNHH (WCYNHH), the YNHH...
John Kerry Speaks at Inaugural Yale Institute of Global Health Event
Fri, 05/22/2020
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 B.A., ’17 L.L.D.H. said the United States must reassert itself as a global leader if we are to address the threat of climate change and other global health challenges in a world steeped in political discord.
During the first in a series of global...
YSN Student on COVID-19 Front Lines in Detroit
Thu, 05/21/2020
Erin Micale ’21 DNP is a float RN working in the Ascension Healthcare systems in Detroit, Michigan. She also teaches psychiatric nursing, medical-surgical nursing, health assessment, evidence based practice, and immersion clinical courses at Madonna University. She is also a recipient of the...
DNP Student Spotlight
Wed, 05/20/2020
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at Yale School of Nursing focuses on leadership and policy and is designed for mid-career nurses who seek to become innovative health care leaders. For their capstone projects, students are immersed in real-world health care situations and use their...
On the COVID-19 Frontlines: YSN DNP Student in Los Angeles
Tue, 05/19/2020
Samantha Ramirez’22 DNP is a nurse practitioner for the liver transplant program at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Yale School of Nursing Gruber Nursing Fellowship. The following is an account of her experience...
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...
