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Staff Series: Ekaterina Ginzburg Drives Teaching and Learning Innovation

Fri, 09/10/2021
Ekaterina Ginzburg started at Yale School of Nursing (YSN) nine years ago with a singular responsibility: to support the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. Now as the Director of Academic Support, Instructional Technology and Design, she drives teaching and learning innovation, evaluation,...

YSN in Media: Omer Talks Vaccines With Slate, WSJ, NPR

Fri, 09/03/2021
Director of the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) and Yale School of Nursing (YSN) affiliate Dr. Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FIDSA, shared his expertise with multiple media outlets over the past few weeks. He discussed the Biden Administration’s plans for booster shots on Slate’s “What Next...

New Award To Study Risk Model For Fractures in Persons With HIV

Thu, 09/02/2021
By Julie Parry In people living with HIV, the disease itself, along with medications to treat the infection can cause long term side effects. Fragility fractures have been shown to occur at a higher rate in persons with HIV, than in their uninfected counterparts and has led to over $99M in excess...

N95 Mask Fittings Signal Start of Nursing Year

Mon, 08/30/2021
After months of applying, waiting, and preparing, new Nursing students launched the next phase of their careers on August 16 and 18 with their first piece of clinical equipment: a well-fitted N95 mask. The process starts with a student wearing one of three sizes of mask and then donning a plastic,...

New Nursing Students Undeterred by COVID-19 Pandemic

Mon, 08/30/2021
Neither global pandemic nor rain nor wind of Tropical Storm Henri could keep new Yale School of Nursing (YSN) students from completion of orientation last week as the first class to conduct its application process during the COVID-19 public health crisis.  Dean Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PhD, CNM, MPH,...