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Ramos Explores How A Virtual Environment Can Produce Cardiovascular Health Gains IRL

An avatar is pictured in the virtual environment.
Tue, 10/11/2022
Dr. S. Raquel Ramos, PhD, MBA, MSN, FNP-BC is Associate Professor at the Yale School of Nursing and jointly appointed at the Yale School of Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences. She was a former postdoctoral fellow at Yale Nursing in 2015. Her NHLBI-funded, five-year, career development...

Uganda Experience Proves Transformative for Midwifery Students

YSN students and three of their Ugandan preceptors--Monica, Joy, and Immaculate—pose in scrubs in a smiling group photo.
Wed, 10/05/2022
The journey to the birth center in Atiak, Uganda, takes the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) midwifery group nearly 24 hours on a plane from New York to Dubai to Kampala and then it takes a seven-hour drive to reach the constellation of birthing huts. But it gives so much more. “This trip was an...

Disaster Simulation Prepares Yale Nursing Students for Chaos

During the mass-casualty simulation, a runaway golf cart careened into a gas grill at a community cookout, prompting an explosion.
Fri, 09/30/2022
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Simulation Team spends every semester tailoring “sim” exercises to specific clinical and academic needs. The annual mass-casualty disaster simulation for Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) students serves as a cumulative assessment of everything they have...

Kennedy Named Interim Dean of Yale School of Nursing

Holly Powell Kennedy is an internationally known midwife.
Fri, 09/23/2022
By Kevin Dennehy Holly Powell Kennedy, an internationally renowned midwifery investigator and educator at Yale School of Nursing, will serve as the school’s interim dean while the university conducts a search for a successor to outgoing Dean Ann Kurth, President Peter Salovey recently announced....

An Advice Columnist, an Opera Singer, and a Girl Scout Walk into Yale Nursing…

The 2020 Orientation Leaders guide new students through their first week at YSN.
Mon, 08/22/2022
Have you heard this one? An advice columnist, an opera singer, and a Girl Scout walk into Yale School of Nursing (YSN). Punchline: they all serve as Orientation Leaders (OLs) for the incoming class of Yale nurses and midwives.  This group represents the wide range of experience YSN students bring...