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...
