NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Celebrating #nyu2021 in The Big . Here’s to you grads! by Dean @ajbknowles

Happy #PrideMonth2021 from NYU Meyers! We are so grateful to all of our LGBTQ+ nurses, faculty, staff, students, and community members. We celebrate you! Stay tuned as we feature some of these amazing people across our social channels throughout the month

Happy Commencement Week #nyu2021! Be sure to tag us in your #nyugraduation pictures #nyumeyers

Today's #NationalNursesWeek feature is Wilhelmina (Willie) Manzano, MA ‘87, BS ‘81, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN. Willie Manzano is Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Executive (CNE) & Chief Operating Officer (COO), Perioperative Services for New York-Presbyterian Health System Enterprise (NYP), Assistant Dean of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing, and President of the American Nurses Foundation Board. Ms. Manzano is widely recognized for her transformational leadership t...hat spans across service and academia. She founded the Center for Professional Nursing Practice at NYP to advance nursing and promote standardization and integration of best practices across the enterprise-supporting nurses to be leaders, innovators, teachers, and mentors. She has been instrumental in the creation of many innovative programs and strategic partnerships to meet the dynamic needs of the nursing profession. Her vision led to the creation of the CUSON Masters in Advanced Clinical Management and Leadership (ACML) to enhance nurses’ abilities to assume leadership roles. Ms. Manzano was recognized as one of Crain’s New York Notable Women in Healthcare for 2019. See more

Congratulations to new graduate and student organization leader Hannah Moses! Hannah has served as the President of the Undergraduate Nursing Student Organization for the past academic year. In her time, she has helped organize scrub donation events for students who may not be able to afford them otherwise. She has proven to be an extremely dedicated President, advocating for all Meyers students as a whole and using her voice to make changes here at Meyers. She is an incredible representative of what it means to be a Meyers student and a future nurse. UNSO will miss Hannah’s service dearly and wish her nothing but the best and brightest in her future endeavors!

Happy Monday! #NationalNursesWeek continues, and today we're featuring Natalia Cineas, BS ’06, MS ’09 (Wagner), DNP, RN, NEA-BC. Dr. Natalia Cineas serves as Senior Vice President and System Chief Nursing Executive for NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health care system in the nation, serving more than one million New Yorkers annually in more than 70 patient care locations. She serves as clinical lead for the organization, directing more than 9,600 nurses and more t...han 970 social workers as well as planning, overseeing, and evaluating all aspects of clinical operations, services, and nurse education to ensure the delivery of quality, safe, standardized, and cost-effective nursing care to patients and the community. She has been instrumental in COVID-19 crisis management, including directing the recruitment and deployment of more than 5,000 additional nurses and nursing specialists. She also serves as co-chair of NYC Health + Hospitals’ Health & Equity Access Council, identifying and defining system-wide strategic diversity and inclusion priorities. See more

Today’s graduate highlight is recent President of the Black Student Nurses Association (BNSA), Chase Williams! Chase was named the Overall 2021 Distinguished Traditional Baccalaureate Student of the 2021 graduating class. She hopes to obtain her first RN job on a medical-surgical unit to build a strong nursing foundation. In the future, she sees herself as a labor & delivery nurse, who uses mindfulness and meditation practices to assist birthing persons through their labor. She enjoyed her time serving as BSNA’s Spring 2021 president and hopes to continue to give back to the BIPOC community through advocacy, public health, and health promotion. Congratulations Chase! We can’t wait to see all the amazing things you accomplish in the future

Our next #NationalNursesWeek alumni feature is Florence Downs, EdD ’64, PhD (1925-2005). Florence Downs is a preeminent figure in the fields of nursing education, research, and leadership. Her distinguished career involved teaching Psychiatric Nursing at NYU’s Division of Nursing and formalizing the structure of the NYU doctoral program in nursing during a time where there were few such programs. She then developed and established the Master’s and Doctoral programs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing while working as their Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. She was the editor of Nursing Research for 17 years and was instrumental in mentoring countless doctoral students through her industrious career.

Today’s new graduate feature just finished serving as President of the Women's and Allied Health Student Nurses Association (WAHSNA). Catherine is loved by many of her peers! Her passion for maternal and child health motivated the completion of her senior capstone project for the LEAD Honors program. She is a Student Nurse Extern at NYU Langone and will be working in the NICU after passing her NCLEX! The WAHNSA e-board is very proud of her for graduating #nyu2021

Continuing our #NationalNursesWeek alumni features with Nuranisa Rae, MS ’16, BS ’11, CNM. Nuranisa Rae worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Mount Sinai East before starting a homebirth practice, Nur Midwifery. Nuranisa catches babies and provides well-person care to people in NYC, Westchester and Rockland. She is the founder and director of NURSpace, a community space providing workshops, meet-ups, and classes for people interested in conscious health, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Nuranisa is the Maternal Health Director at the 1789 Fund, a nonprofit working to educate and empower midwives in Nepal.

Congratulations to all our graduates today!! We are so proud Pictured: Sera Choi (‘21) and Catherine Zhao (‘21) served this past year as the co-presidents for the Asian Pacific Islander Nursing Student Association (API-NSA) at NYU Meyers. They have been strong teammates not only for the club, but also in the hospital setting during their Leadership clinical rotations together this semester at Tisch. They will be studying to take the NCLEX this summer!

Save the date! Join us on Monday, May 24th at 12:00 PM EST for a virtual graduation celebration! The broadcast link will be live on the NYU Meyers homepage on the day of. Also, please share your graduation photos with us by sending them to our Student Affairs Office at [email protected]. See you soon!

A few more of our faculty and staff members (Profs. Chen, Fasolka, Bucco and Sim Center Assistant Director Robertiello) got the COVID-19 vaccine! #thisisourshot

Who is your #NYUAlumni Changemaker?

Weekend reading! Prof. Amy Witkoski Stimpfel discusses new research findings on work ability among older nurses in a new NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health blog post: "Managers of aging nurses [need] to focus on schedules, workload, and enhancement of overall health to ensure nurses can safely continue their jobs for as long as they wish to continue working." Read more: https://bit.ly/3kL2AZh

Six members of the NYU Meyers community will join the illustrious ranks of American Academy of Nursing Fellows. They are: Prof. Larry Slater, OHNEP Program Director Erin Hartnett, Prof. Ann-Margaret Navarra, Prof. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos (NYU Silver), Prof. Janet Van Cleave, and Prof. Barbara Delmore (NYU School of Medicine).

We all have a special role to play to continue to keep our communities safe!

What are our PhD students up to? Lauren Ghazal recently received a pilot project grant from the Education and Research Centers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH - CDC).

Congratulations to Prof. Selena Gilles! She received the 2020 Nurse of the Year for Community Service Award from the National Black Nurses Association.

Meet Jamie Chiappetta, our associate director of finance! She is a math whiz and finance virtuoso who cheers on the New York Red Bulls when she's not crunching numbers. Jamie and her husband were even invited for a super fan photo shoot: "While we were being interviewed, they handed us over a can of Red Bull. When I looked at it, I screamed. My husband and I are on the can!" Read the full story: https://nursing.nyu.edu//staff-profile-meet-jamie-chiappet

Frank Baez BS '19, a Meyers alum who drew national attention last year with his remarkable life story, will join other healthcare professionals for this important webinar on health equity, COVID-19, & the future of nursing. Hosted by the National Academy of Medicine. Save your spot today!