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...
DeLauro Cites YSN Research to Expand SNAP
Thu, 04/23/2020
Earlier this month, Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro cited research coauthored by Margaret L. Holland, PhD, MPH, MS in a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture advocating for the expansion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during COVID-19 (coronavirus disease)....
Palliative Care Principles Can Ease COVID-19 Challenges
Tue, 04/21/2020
Yale School of Nursing faculty members Dena Schulman-Green, PhD (left) and Shelli Feder, PhD, APRN, NP-BC, ACHPN (center) recently partnered with Kathleen M. Akgün, MD, MS (right) from Yale School of Medicine to publish a set of palliative care strategies clinicians can use while fighting the COVID...
Vlahov Research Recommends COVID-19 Path Forward in Slums
Tue, 04/21/2020
In early April, Professor of Nursing and PhD Program Director David Vlahov, PhD, RN, FAAN, coauthored “Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 & Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements.” Vlahov is also the founding president of the International Society for Urban Health, a multi-...
In The Media: Hartford Courant: We will need nurses to get us through COVID-19 — and the next pandemic
Sat, 04/18/2020
Dean Ann Kurth: We have a finite number of nurses, and we must make sure they are protected.
Yale Health Experts on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tue, 04/14/2020
Yale School of Nursing Dean Ann Kurth (left) and Saad Omer (right), director of the Yale Institute for Global Health and adjunct professor nursing, joined Yale University President Peter Salovey (center) for the fourth episode of Yale Talkin a conversation about COVID-19 response and the immediate...
In The Media: WNYC: Pregnancy in the Time of COVID-19
Thu, 04/02/2020
YSN Lecturer Sascha James-Conterelli, DNP, CNM, FACNM, President of the New York State Association of Licensed Midwives, and co-chair of Governor Cuomo’s Maternal Mortality and Racial Disparities Task Force and Elisabeth Benjamin, Vice President of Health Initiatives at the Community Service...
Principles on Holistic Admission and Spring 2020 Grades
Tue, 03/31/2020
Recognizing the challenges to teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Provost and Deans of Yale University adopted the following principle:
Yale’s admissions offices for graduate and professional schools evaluate applicants holistically and will take the significant disruptions of...
Yale leaders talk about COVID-19: School of Nursing Dean Ann Kurth
Tue, 03/31/2020
Dean Ann Kurth discusses how the Yale School of Nursing is responding to this crisis and how nurses are uniquely positioned to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Health System Prepares for COVID-19: Nurses Lead the Way
Mon, 03/30/2020
Once it became apparent that COVID-19 was an imminent threat to population health and the capacity of Connecticut’s health systems, Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) prepared for the inevitable surge of cases. The health system spans the Connecticut coast and encompasses Yale New Haven,...
COVID-19 UPDATE: Caring While Keeping Safe Virtual Panel
Wed, 03/25/2020
COVID-19 UPDATE: Caring While Keeping Safe Virtual Panel
Thursday, March 26, 2020
12:00 - 1:00PM
Sponsored by the Department of Internal Medicine’s Office of Global Health (OGH), this virtual
teleconference will provide an update to our community on current local strategies to prevent
and control...
Yale Experts Address Latest Coronavirus Developments in Virtual Town Hall Event
Thu, 03/19/2020
Seven experts from Yale and New Haven, including Dean Ann Kurth, provided the latest information about the coronavirus pandemic and answered questions from members of the public at a “virtual town hall” convened by the Yale School of Public Health.
Epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves of the School of...
Yale Virtual Town Hall to Address the Latest on Pandemic
Tue, 03/17/2020
A panel of seven experts from Yale and the City of New Haven, including Dean Ann Kurth, will meet in a virtual town hall Wednesday (March 18) to inform the public and policymakers on the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic.
The wide-ranging discussion will address and answer questions...
In The Media: Dean Ann Kurth on UnfilteredSE on CNN with SE Cupp to discuss the latest on the coronavirus outbreak.
Sun, 03/08/2020
“This is no time for politics or partisanship, we have to have fact-based science that’s led by people who know what they are doing, which is your public health and healthcare workers on the ground.” Dean Ann Kurth on UnfilteredSE on CNN with SE Cupp to discuss the latest on the coronavirus...
In The Media: International Edition: Covid-19: How can we stop the global outbreak?
Mon, 03/02/2020
On International Edition, a discussion with Dr. Saad Omer: How can we stop the global outbreak?
In The Media: We can’t stop the coronavirus now. But we can be ready for it.
Wed, 02/26/2020
“The impact [of COVID-19] can be reduced…It depends on how our leaders communicate the ever-changing risk, whether disease-control measures follow science,… and whether we treat each other with dignity and compassion.” - Dr. Saad B. Omer
In The Media: What You Need to Know About COVID19 With Dr. Saad Omer via Conversations on Health Care Radio Show
Mon, 02/24/2020
Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter ‘80 MSN, APRN, PhD, FAAN, FAANP, speak with Dr. Saad Omer, Director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, on the expanding COVID-19 outbreak. A renowned epidemiologist, Dr. Omer discusses the best protocols against spread of the Coronavirus epidemic, the need...
Reproductive and Infertility Clinic Opens on West Campus | Expands Partnership Between YSN & Yale Medicine
Fri, 02/21/2020
The Yale Medicine (YM) Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) section opened earlier this month as the first YM clinical practice on West Campus. YM and Yale School of Nursing (YSN) leaders are hoping the introduction of REI paves the way for other clinical programs to relocate to the...
PEPFAR’s Investments in Rwanda Helped Boost Health Workforce, But Future Programs Should More Comprehensively Support Long-Term Capacity
Fri, 02/14/2020
“People with HIV are living longer, which means they have long-term HIV care needs while also needing care to manage other diseases and to enhance their quality of life. Supporting the entirety of their needs depends on the same strong health system that is needed to address all people’s health...
Fellowship Opportunity Through the Yale Insitiute For Global Health
Tue, 02/04/2020
Emerging pandemic infections, the dramatic rise in non-communicable diseases, planetary health, and other issues will be at the forefront of complex global health challenges in the next decade. To meet these challenges, the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) aims to contribute to the...
In The Media: Davos 2020: Want to stop an outbreak in its tracks? Start with trust
Fri, 01/31/2020
HEALTHDAVOS
Want to stop an outbreak in its tracks? Start with trust
BY CLIFTON LEAF
January 21, 2020 6:39 PM EST
DAVOS, Switzerland—The key to building resilient health care systems around the world is rebuilding trust in health care. That was one of the fundamental points made in a fascinating...
In The Media: Is America Ready for Another Outbreak?
Mon, 01/27/2020
NYT Opinion piece: Is America Ready for Another Outbreak? Dr. Saad Omer, YSN faculty member and Director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, says no, but there are clear steps the government needs to take.
Apply to Present at All Points West 2020!
Fri, 01/24/2020
The WSPC is excited to open applications for trainees to present their research at All Points West 2020 on Friday, April 17th!
We will select two trainees (students, postgrads, postdocs) from each of the 7 West Campus institutes and from the Yale School of Nursing to present a 5-minute lightning...
Call for Applications: The 2020 Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis
Wed, 01/15/2020
Delighted to announce an exciting new initiative - the inaugural Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis. The goal of the project is to bring new, diverse voices into the national climate conversation via training in op-ed writing and thought leadership. Please consider applying and/or...
Food as a Healing Agent
Fri, 12/20/2019
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is a five-minute walk from the Yale Landscape Lab (YLL), and that proximity has forged a symbiotic relationship between the West Campus neighbors.
Michelle Kennedy ’05 MSN, APRN, enjoys bringing Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) students into the urban...
New Issue of Yale Nursing Matters Magazine Available Today!
Fri, 12/20/2019
In the issue, you will learn about YSN partnerships close to home on West Campus and far abroad in countries around the world. Plus, check out our cover story about Travis McCann ‘20 MSN and Joe Albertario ‘20 MSN and their big plans for two new apps.
Explore the Partnerships Issue.
Diversity: REACH Is Accepting Applications for Its Training Program
Mon, 11/25/2019
REACH (Recognizing and Eliminating disparities in Addiction through Culturally-informed Healthcare) is seeking applicants for its second training program.
REACH is a five-year initiative funded by SAMHSA to cultivate leaders in the Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine fields and to increase...
Yale Researchers Contribute to Landmark Report on Health and Climate Change
Fri, 11/15/2019
Climate change is already damaging the health of the world’s children and threatens the wellbeing of an entire generation unless the world meets Paris Agreement targets to limit global warming to well below 2°C, according to a major new report co-authored by scientists from the Yale School of...
Dean Co-authors Paper on the Public Health Crisis of Underimmunization
Thu, 11/07/2019
Dean Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN recently coauthored the paper “The Public Health Crisis of Underimmunization: A Global Plan of Action”in the United Kingdom journal “The Lancet.”
In summary, the piece concludes that vaccination is one of public health’s greatest achievements,...
Congratulations to Living Legend Linda Schwartz
Thu, 10/24/2019
Congratulations to Linda Schwartz ’84 MSN, ’98 DrPH, RN, FAAN, who is being celebrated as a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing this year.
“Linda’s humility, persistence, good humor, and dedication to the country, to veterans, and the profession are exemplary,” said Dean Ann Kurth ’90...
Nancy Schmieder Redeker has been awarded NIH funding to address the need for studies of factors that contribute to cognitive impairment and dementia in people with Heart Failure
Wed, 10/23/2019
Nancy Schmieder Redeker, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN has been awarded NIH funding to address the need for studies of factors that contribute to cognitive impairment and dementia in people with Heart Failure, a group at high risk for cognitive impairment. This is aligned with the NIH focus on addressing...
Sustainable Health Initiative: Accelerator Applications Now Open!
Wed, 10/23/2019
Are you a current Yale students, alumni, fellows, trainees, and/or faculty members? If so, you are encouraged to apply to the Sustainable Health Initiative (SHI) Accelerator Scholarship. SHI provides a unique opportunity for early to mid-stage ventures to participate in a global health business...
2019 Lorraine Spranzo Nursing Scholarship Available
Wed, 10/09/2019
The 2019 Lorraine Spranzo Nursing Scholarship is now available.
Eligible candidates will be exemplary graduate students matriculated in an accredited graduate program in a Connecticut college or university, or a Connecticut resident matriculated in an accredited graduate nursing program out of...
Dr. Sasha James-Conterelli Discusses Why Women in America Are Dying From Childbirth
Wed, 10/02/2019
We’re making a difference by reducing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality!
Shamefully, maternal mortality has gone up in the US, and African-American women have rates 3 times higher than white women. YSN faculty member Sascha James-Conterelli, DNP, CNM, FACNM is providing leadership to...
Dean Kurth Appointed to Yale’s Climate Action Task Force
Mon, 09/23/2019
Dean Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN is serving on a task force assembled by President Peter Salovey to explore how the university can achieve net zero carbon emissions as part of Yale’s Climate Action initiative. The task force will submit its findings in spring 2020.
The other members of...
Ruth McCorkle Remembrance
Thu, 08/29/2019
The Yale School of Nursing community is saddened to share the news that Dr. Ruth McCorkle, PHD, RN, FAPOS, FAAN, died peacefully at her home in Connecticut on August 17, surrounded by her family.
“Ruth was a pioneering figure in so many areas of the nursing profession: oncology, symptom science,...
YSN Annual Fund Exceeds Goal
Wed, 07/31/2019
Thank you to everyone who supported our Annual Fund campaign! Over the past 12 months, hundreds of you contributed to the fund, exceeding our goal. Your participation is vital to our success and forward progress, and gifts in every amount make a difference. To our alumni community throughout the...
Polar Care: Jaime Hensel ’13 MSN Shares Wow Moment
Tue, 07/30/2019
Jaime Hensel ’13 MSN has snorkeled on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and explored the lush natural beauty of New Zealand. She has waited for giraffes and baby elephants to cross the road while in South Africa and wandered through the labyrinthine medinas of Morocco. Her air miles have taken...
YSN Administrator, Alumna Named to Sigma Hall of Fame
Mon, 07/29/2019
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Associate Dean for Research David Vlahov PhD, R.N., FAAN and YSN alumna Cheryl Tatano Beck’72 MSN, DNSc, CNM, FAAN will be inducted into the prestigious Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame this...
Trailblazer: Ada Sue Hinshaw ’63 MSN
Wed, 07/10/2019
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a clear mission: to promote and improve the health of individuals, families, and communities. The NINR supports and conducts clinical, biobehavioral, and basic research that develops the scientific...
Students Experience Real Disaster through Simulation
Tue, 07/09/2019
Even before they entered the collapsed building, first-year Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) students could hear the screaming and feel the panic through the smoke. These brave nursing students knew they were participating in a mass casualty disaster simulation (sim). They knew on some...
Wild Life: DNP Student Embraces Wilderness Medicine
Fri, 06/28/2019
Benjamin Woodard ’21 DNP is an outdoor adventure marketer’s dream come true. Woodard grew up in the gorgeous outdoors of rural New Mexico, camping with his family and learning tracking and survival skills as a teen. Later, he became an avid backpacker and rock climber.
He trained as a cardiac...
YALE EXPLORES, Philadelphia: Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Natural Systems on Which It Depends
Thu, 06/27/2019
In the fall of 2018, the new Yale Explores series traveled to Philadelphia to discuss “Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Natural Systems on Which It Depends.” In the City of Brotherly Love, YSN Dean and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of Nursing Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN...
Our Spring 2019 Yale Nursing Matters Magazine is Out!
Thu, 06/27/2019
In the Science Issue, you will travel to a tiny lab space in the South Pole with Jaime Hensel ‘13 MSN and learn how Ada Sue Hinshaw ‘63 MSN built the nurse scientist cadre from scratch as the first permanent director of the National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR). Open the latest edition of...
YALE EXPLORES, Los Angeles: The 21st Century City and Society
Thu, 06/27/2019
Yale Explores concluded the West Coast leg of its most recent tour in March in Los Angeles. This time, the assembled team of Yale faculty addressed issues pertaining to the “21st Century City and Society.” Yale Nursing’s own Associate Dean for Research David Vlahov, PhD., RN, FAAN took the stage as...
Preceptor Awards 2019
Mon, 06/24/2019
Preceptorship bridges the gap between the classroom and the clinical area where nursing is practiced. At the Yale School of Nursing (YSN), there are two programs for Preceptors: Preceptors for GEPN and Preceptors for Master’s Program Specialties.
YSN Preceptor Awards festivities included the...
Strengthening Palliative Care in Israel
Wed, 06/19/2019
A health care landscape without palliative and hospice care in the United States is still within living memory. Florence Wald, the fourth dean of YSN, introduced these concepts to Yale and the country in the mid-1960s.
Decades later, other nations around the world are also exploring how palliative...
Commencement 2019 Prize Winners
Fri, 05/31/2019
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Commencement 2019 festivities including the announcement of prizes for faculty, staff, and students. The descriptions below have been lightly edited and condensed from the May 20 remarks. Unless otherwise noted, awards were presented by Dean Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PHD, CNM...
Newborns in Need: The Largest Yale Day of Service Project
Wed, 05/15/2019
During the second Saturday in May, 75 Yale School of Nursing (YSN) alumni, staff, faculty, and friends gathered on campus to pack hundreds of bags for Newborns in Need. The volunteers carefully tucked diapers, wipes, blankets, body wash, hats, socks, and onesies into each bag. The final care...
