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...
