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Changing the Paradigm in Dementia: The Role of Non-Pharmacological Strategies for Supporting a ‘Good Life.’

Mon, 09/24/2018
Join us on October 3rd at 12 noon at 47 College Street (room 106B), New Haven, for “Changing the Paradigm in Dementia: The Role of Non-Pharmacological Strategies for Supporting a ‘Good Life’ ” The speaker will be Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, and...

Yale New Haven Health names inaugural chief nursing executive

Tue, 09/18/2018
Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) has named  Beth P. Beckman, DNSc to serve as the inaugural chief nursing executive for health system. In this new role, Beckman will be responsible for developing and overseeing the system-wide integration plan for key components of nursing, including nursing practice...

Register for Scholars' Day on October 26th

Thu, 09/13/2018
Dr. Linda Schwartz, RN, DrPH, FAAN, former Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs, will be the esteemed keynote speaker at the annual YSN scholars’ day on Friday, October 26. Her talk will be entitled A Voice For Those Who Have No Voice. Following the talk, there will be...

Dean Kurth to speak at "Yale Explores Planetary Health" event

Thu, 09/13/2018
Dean Kurth will be one of the speakers at an upcoming Yale alumni event on October 3rd in Philadelphia. Yale Explores…Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Natural Systems on Which It Depends is part of a series of “Yale Explores” events, whose aim is to bring together the Yale...

Challenges for California nurses ready to fill primary care gap

Wed, 09/12/2018
Dr. Ulrike (Ulli) Muench, who received her MSN ‘05 and PhD ‘12 at Yale School of Nursing, had the results of a research study published in the September, 2018 issue of Health Affairs. Dr. Muench conducted the study along with Dr. Joanne Spetz, both of the Healthforce Center at the University of...

DNP’18 graduate appointed as hospital CEO

Tue, 09/11/2018
Dr. Aries Limbaga, who graduated from the Yale Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program in May of 2018, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles, California. Previously, Dr. Limbaga was the Chief Nursing Officer at the...

PhD student Abigail Wilpers awarded Pritchard scholarship

Tue, 09/04/2018
Abigail Wilpers, a PhD student at YSN, has been awarded the Edith M. Pritchard scholarship by Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Abigail was selected from a significant group of highly qualified candidates. The award recognizes her noteworthy academic and clinical practice, community service and...