Faculty Profile

617 West 168th Street Room 352
New York, NY 10032

Phone: 2123055887
Fax: 2123056937

lz108@columbia.edu

Education and Training

BSN Downstate Medical Center
MSN Yale University School of Nursing
DrNP Columbia University School of Nursing

Laura Zeidenstein, BA, BSN, MSN, DrNP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing
Program Director


Research/Clinical Interests

Clinical midwifery practice, clinical midwifery education, female genital cutting, abortion access
Student clinical narratives as education method, methodology and evaluation of clinical skills education, mentoring students to publish clinical research in peer reviewed journals

Selected Publications

€śMidwifery and Gender Equality? editorial, Journal of Midwifery and Women'€™s Health, 52 (1) 37
Clinical Rounds (student series). Project director and editor of 20 submissions by nurse-midwifery students which were accepted for publication, Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health,52(1 – 6) 2007, 53 (1 - 6)2008
\r\n“Insightful integration precepting�, Educator’s column, ACNM, Region II, Chapter 1 Newsletter, September 2005, p16-17
“Elective cesarean section: how informed is informed consent?� Journal of Health Ethics, 2005\r\n
Invited Commentary: Our students: a breath of fresh air, JMWH, 48:6, 2003

Honors & Awards

2006 ACNM Excellence in Teaching Award
2005 ACNM Excellence in Teaching Award

Committees

2005 - current Curriculum
2002 - current Program Directors
2000- 2003 Admissions

Professional Memberships

1994- 2004 American Association of Birth Centers (formally National Association of Childbearing Centers)
1988 - current American College of Nurse Midwives