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The mission of the Office of Student Recruitment is to encourage qualified applicants to consider the many programs offered by the Yale School of Nursing. It will be our pleasure to provide you with information about both the School of Nursing and Yale University.
Bachelor's-prepared nurses and qualified applicants with a bachelor's degree in any area can earn a Master of Science in nursing degree. Students in YSN's masters program choose from among a wide range of nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist options, as well as a nurse-midwifery specialty. If you are interested in the profession but have not decided upon a clinical specialty, we can provide you with the tools to make that decision.
Nursing leaders prepared as clinical researchers can drive health care to better serve patients. The best way for students to develop their research skills is through close collaboration with a seasoned investigator. That is why YSN's doctoral program features true mentoring by faculty with distinguished programs of research.
We offer two areas of focus: Clinical Reasearch and Health Systems and Policy Research.
We can provide you with information on our faculty's cutting-edge research.
There is no such thing as a “typical” YSN student. People come to us with years of nursing experience. We also get our share of artists, Peace Corps volunteers and even the occasional banker.
Because the skill set of the advanced practice nurse is constantly evolving, YSN offers programs of study for nurses with master's degrees who are preparing for additional responsibilities. Post-master's certificate offerings generally require one year of study, but it's best to meet with the specialty director to determine your own course of study. We can put you directly in touch with the appropriate member of our leadership team.
There is no such thing as a typical YSN student. People come to us with years of nursing experience. We also get our share of artists, Peace Corps volunteers and even the occasional banker. They come right out of college. They return to school after 20 years in the working world. Their hometowns dot the globe. Our students share a commitment to our School's mission statement of “Better Health Care for ALL People.” This is often the organizing factor in student activities, like the Boston-to-New York AIDS Ride, our health professions partnership with an urban high school, and our nationally-acclaimed Yale-Howard Scholars Program.
YSN looks for candidates who can succeed in our programs and make significant contributions to the profession of nursing. We give every application the complete consideration it deserves. We encourage you to meet with us for a personal advisement session where we can discuss your ideas and answer your questions. If you are unable to travel to Yale, located on the East Coast in New Haven, Connecticut, we encourage you to contact our office to schedule a telephone advisement session.
To schedule an appointment, please contact the Office of Admissions at 203.737.1793 or via e-mail: yale.nurse@yale.edu. Thank you.
We pride ourselves in being leaders in research, education, and
clinical practice. Let us help you meet both your personal and academic
goals. It will be our pleasure to work with you, and we encourage
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Student Spotlight
Erin Ruppe
Even originally from the San Francisco bay area, Erin Ruppe, MSN '08 "left her heart in the Northeast."
She left home at the age of 18 to attend college in Philadelphia and spent the majority of the last seven years in the Northeast.
Although she was raised in the "laid back atmosphere of northern California," the East Coast is the place she calls "home."
Erin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 with a B.A. in Anthropology.
At the completion of college she knew that she wanted to continue in school, so she moved to Washington, D.C. to enroll in a graduate program at the George Washington University School of Public Health.
"Since I was very young, I was always interested in health care and knew that I would spend my life in this area - I just didn't know it what capacity," wrote Erin.
After graduating from college, Erin worked in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Health while attending graduate school.
"It was a unique dichotomy, to see the molecular world of medicine while at the same time learning about the global side of health care," she wrote.
It was during her graduate studies in public health that Erin realized that she wanted to become an advanced practice nurse.
"I was involved in research projects within the public health school and in the community, all involving nurse researchers.
I quickly realized that nurses were the ones not only on the front lines of health care delivery, but they were also the ones teaching the most interesting courses in my graduate program," she wrote.
"Every research program I have worked on has involved advanced practice nurses at some level. The adolescent health clinic I worked at in Takoma Park, MD was run by a nurse practitioner.
The Hispanic clinics where I delivered my osteoporosis screen program were run by nurses. The participant recruitment director on the geriatric bruising study I was a part of was a geriatric nurse practitioner. And it doesn't stop there."
Erin graduated with an MPH degree in May of 2002 and moved back to Southern California to work on a geriatric research project for the University of California at Irvine.
From this experience she further understood the importance of research, but believed that she needed a clinical background to better understand health care research.
So, she began to examine accelerated nurse practitioner programs across the country.
"After much searching I knew that YSN was the place for me based on their excellent graduate pre-entry specialty in nursing, designed for individuals just like me," she wrote.
"I knew that I wanted to be and advanced practice nurse, yet I didn't want to have to go back to school for a number of additional years. For these reasons, Yale School of Nursing seemed like the best combination of clinical and research training."
Since January of 2004, Erin has worked as a project director at the Yale-Howard Partnership Center on Reducing Health Disparities at the Yale School of Nursing.
"I feel lucky to have this opportunity and it further reinforces my belief in the excellence of the GEPN program here," she wrote.
"I have had the opportunity to work with the faculty and staff here at YSN that strive to make this a great place for learning. Working with the faculty and students from Howard has been the best part of the job.
I see, through this partnership, that the field of nursing is growing and changing in a very positive direction."
Erin's work for the past several years has focused on health disparities, and she intends to continue in this area, focusing on women's health.
While gaining clinical expertise, Erin also intends to continue to incorporate research into her clinical experience.
"I imagine at some point in the future I will go on and continue graduate work towards a doctorate in nursing, while still working in the clinical environment," she wrote.
Eventually, Erin hopes to open a comprehensive women's center that incorporates the latest research and clinical knowledge to deliver all-inclusive health care to women.
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