Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 25, 2003|Volume 31, Number 27

New award will honor creativity
of School of Nursing students

The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) has established an award to recognize its students' outstanding creative expressions and artistic achievement, including writings, poetry and drawings.

"The establishment of this annual award will recognize the outstanding creative expression of our gifted nurses," says YSN Dean Catherine L. Gilliss. "With this award we hope to increase the understanding and the visibility of the role and influence nurses play in our society."

The YSN held a fundraising event for the award on April 9 at the New Haven Country Club. At that dinner, four YSN students -- Clair Cassidy, Leslie E. Rae Larsen, Catherine Virosko and Laura Thompson -- read from their works.

In introducing the students, YSN lecturer Linda Pellico, who was instrumental in establishing the Creative Writing Award, noted that the students' works "reveal our strengths and weaknesses ... our endless presence ... our intimacies, the smells, the sights; not the pretty ones that come in designer bottles but the ones you cannot wash off your skin, the ones that haunt you hours, days, weeks after you have left the unit. ...

"Nursing is important work that needs to be done and it needs to be written about," she added. "We have been silent for so long that many see us with a sweet smile, a white cap and a Red Cross on our chest. The ministering angel we were seduced by has left us with a national shortage in an era where power and prowess matters. ... So what can we do? We can tell our stories, describe a day in the life of a nurse; the truth will be revealed."

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