Yale Nursing Matters

Volume 7, Number 1

Summer / Autumn 2006

Letter from the dean
YSN spotlight & international news
Bringing a philosophical perspective to palliative care
Features Mark Lazenby, a nursing student in his first semester at YSN in the Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) program.
The ability to respond: portrait of a future gerontological nurse practitioner
Features 2nd year GEPN student Sylvia Parker, who also is a 2006 winner of YSN's Creative Writing Award.
To make a difference, Karen McKeown goes the distance
Features a student in YSN's new master's specialty in Nursing, Management, Policy and Leadership which uses web-based instruction and monthly weekend workshops to enable participation by students who are not geographically close to Yale.
Patients at the end of life: as peaceful as possible
Features Karrie Cummings Hendrickson, a third-year doctoral student at YSN who is doing her dissertation on end-of-life care for children with cancer.
Scholarship: faculty publications
Scholarship: research in progress
Alumnae/i News
Nursing >> tomorrow
I am a Yale Nurse: Sharon Rising '67
Traces the career of a member of YSN's class of 1967, who also received the YSN Alumnae/I Association's Distinguished Alumna/us Award in 2006.
I am a Yale Nurse: Tae-Wol Stanley '97
Traces the career of a member of YSN's Class of 1997, who is working at a clinic in San Francisco with homeless people to get them into supportive housing and then arranging for medical care, social work and substance abuse treatment.
Truth of the matter
Commentary on the future of nursing from Margaret Flinter '80, President of the Connecticut Nurses Association, and Vice President and Clinical Director of Community Health Center, Inc. in Middletown, Connecticut.

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Yale Nursing Matters

Volume 7, Number 1

Summer / Autumn 2006