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For more information, please contact [email protected]. Yale Nurse Yale School of Nursing Newsletter August 1993 1993 COMMENCEMENT AND ALUMNAE/I WEEKEND ISSUE Yale Nurse From the Dean Throughout its 70 year history YSN has preserved the best traditions in nursing, while simultaneously transform ing prac Co-editors: tice and education to meet new needs Linda Demas and concerns. Whether they p racticed in Ba rbara Reif the early 20th Century when nurses helped found the fi eld of public health, or today manage sophisticated high-tech Photo credits: care fo r the ch ronically and terminally ill, joy Bush Ya le's graduates and faculty have always participated in and facilitated both care Barbara Reif and cure. This issue of Yale Nurse gives testi mony to the need fo r caregivers who focus Contributors: on human beings with their pain and suf June Ho rnin g fering rather than simply their diseases Mary Lee Mantz or dysfunctions. As you know, nursing has become increasingly engaged in the Charlotte Houde Quimby crucial debate about the restructuring of a health care system in d eep crisis. Our goal is to integrate concerns about cost, quali ty, technology, August 1993 ethics, organization, finance, and caregiving so that we can create a genuine health care system that goes beyond o ur current disease treatment models. CONTENTS I needn't tell you that such a system will depend on nursing care. Specialists in nursing will help shape the health care systems of the 21st From the Dean ....................... Century. Because th ey can create and manage health delivery systems Commencemen t 1993 ............. 2 which increase access to care, nurses will be a d riving force in designing 36th Al umnae/i and implementing health policy in the next decade. That is why YSN College Weekend .................... 6 prepares its graduates to provide excellent nursing ca re to patients and families and teaches them how to supp ly the kind of wise leadershi p that YSN Alumnae/i will be essential if our society is to create a more responsive health care Association Annual Meeting .................................... l1 system. No other school of nursing has been more ambitious in its mis sion than YSN. We embrace the challenge of creating a cost and care Cultural Diversity effective health care system that will no t only serve all Americans but also in Nursing Practice Continues ... In Africa .......... 12 contribute to the health of the en tire world. Health ca re reform proposals have focused new attention on the work Establishing a BSN of advanced practice n urses. It is likely that whatever happens with health Curriculu m in Uganda ....... 12 care refo rm our graduates will have a more visible role in health care Nursing Education delivery. I think you will agree that the facul ty, students, and alumnae/i in Uganda, East Afri ca ....... 15 re fl ected on the fo llowing pages are more than u p to the tas k! This issue Refl ections of Being of Yale Nurse takes you from Commencement at Yale's golf course to a a Nurse/Missionary remote vil lage in Africa and everywhere in between. The unify ing theme in Zambia ............................ 16 is the caring and inventiveness displayed by Yale nurses all over the Faculty Notes .......................... 17 world as they change the face of health care. As we move across the next Student News .......................... 18 five years towards o ur 75th anniversary, it occurs to me to tell you how proud I am to be a Yale Nurse. Downs International Travel Fellows Named ........... 19 YSN Student Recognized with an Elm-Ivy Awa rd .. ....... 19 Class News .............................. 20 In Memoriam .......................... 21 Alu mnae/iWeekend Survey ...................................... 22 1 Commencement 1993 Linda Demas '89 It was a made-to-order brilliant addressed health care reform, the the challenges and rewards that day, this May twenty-fourth, Com efforts of the Yale School of Nursing resulted from the molding of Three mencement Day. Spirits soared as historically and currently to im Year Non-Nurse and RN program Banner Bearer Amy Vogt '93 crest prove hea lth ca re for the commu colleagues. ed the hill at the Yale Golf Course nity and the nation, and the role of The gift of the Class of 1993, graduation exercises. Dean judith the advanced practice nurse in the presented by Beth Ann Collins B. Krauss conferred Certificates in health care system. and Robin Lee Pooley-Richards, Nursing and Master of Science in Beginning a new tradition at this was a magnificent stained-glass Nursing degrees on the Class of year's Commencement, a member representation of the School pin. 1993. Alumnae/ i Board President of the graduating class addressed It would be splendid placed Marvel Davis '70, presented each her peers. Y. Zena Downey, in re above the entrance d oor of YSN's graduate w ith a YSN pin. Dean counting her YSN experience, joy permanent home. Krauss's formal academic remarks fully and thoughtfully addressed Fa culty /eadi11g tire procession 2 Mary Ellen Rousseau was pre sented with the Annie Goodrich Recognition Award for Excellence in teaching by Clarisse Fairbanks Tulchinsky. During her tenure at Yale School of Nursing, the 1993 recipient of the An11ie Goodrich Award has built a community of en thusiastic, admiri11g students, who believe she clearly ex emplifies the standards that Annie Goodrich set forth. She has a natural Y. Zerra Downey gave "firs t ever" s tudeut Commeucement address. gift for teaching that enables her stu dents to learn from her. She bri11gs out other people's inner strengths with ease. Her students describe l1er as welcoming a11d approachable and feel she is a strong student advocate. Her professional accomplishmen ts, understanding nature, and her un canny ability to keep life's glitches in perspective make her an outstm1 ding teacher. The 1993 recipient of the Annie Goodrich Award function s as a nurse-midwife. Her carerr has been devot ed to women. She began the first full scope midwifery practice i11 Connecticut in 1977. This achieve ment required a considerable amount of determination and courage. She is a member of the Women's Ce11ter Coor dination Committee and the Women's Center Task Force at Yale University in addition to nwnero11S other com mittees. She was a research associate in Yale Medical School's Menopause Program for four years. She has made many contributions to our increasing knowledge of menopause through pre Beth Anu Collins (I) and Robin Pooley-Richards with 1993 Class Gift. sentations and several innovative 3 resl.'llrc/1 articles. Her 11ext presenta immediat ely ll.'llmed up withfawlty tion entitled, "New Perspectives on wl1o lmd similar interests and engaged Women's Health," will be presented at ill several indepmdent studies to the 18th National Primary Care Nurse research psychosomatic factors related Practitioners Symposium in july of to disease. Her initiative and consis this year. tent involvement as a full participant Her ou tstanding teaching ability, in the ongoing program of research qualities of approachllbility and acces has distinguished her YSN career as sibility inspire students to reach for quite extraordinary. the academic excellence which she hils She is a highly motivated goal direct already attained. The Class of 1993, ed individual. Sl1e learns quickly, is together with the entire student body able to fows on key issues, but is also of the Yale University School of able to think about multiple issues in Nu rsing, proudly presents the 1993 complex ways. She is committed to the Annie Goodrich Award to Mary Ellen management of symptoms (which may Rousseau. occur because of t11 e ca11cer or various treatme11t protocols) for i11dividuals who have cancer; a11d lUis prepared course papers (i11cludi11g clinical protocols) about symptom manage mmt, one of which was published in The 1993 Mi lton and Anne Sidney Oncology Nursing Fomm. Prize is awarded in recognition of She i11spires others to care and to outstanding clinica l research and i11 vest the extra effort that distin its contribution to better health guishes between adequate care and care thro ugh the systematic study quality patient ca re. She is an artiw of the nature and effect of nursing late spokesperson for 11ursing issues. practice. The recipient this year Sl1e was asked to serve as Newsletter was Annemarie Heath Sanch ez. Editor for the Oncology Nurses Society in Rhode Island and ti!IIS most recently Sl1e chose a topic I hilt hils releva11ce elected by her peers, President-Elect of to her own interests, to the practice the ONS in Rhode Island. Nurse col of nursing, a11d to the broader world leagues describe her as "impressive," of clinical practice and research tiUit "talented," "thorough." "thoughtful," is i11[1uenced by issues concerning "kind," and "caring." Iutman development.