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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

Ada Sue Hinshaw
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, 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...

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...