Yale New Haven Hospital, Florida
Barbara Stahl, APRN, DNSc, has more than 50 years of critical care experience in the nursing professions—and unexpectedly became the first member of the Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) medical staff to become an ICU patient herself in the earliest days of the Covid pandemic in 2020.
She retired in 2022, having served as Lead APP for YNHH’s Heart & Vascular Center (HVC) since 2009. In that role she led the team of APP’s caring for post operative cardiac surgical patients. Her prior roles at YNHH include Staff APP in the HVC, HVC Case Manager, Cardiac Surgery Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Nurse Manager of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Barbara has precepted and mentored generations of medical residents and fellows, graduate and undergraduate nurses, and student APP’s, including didactic and preceptor roles at the Yale, Ona Wilcox, Central Connecticut, Southern Connecticut, and St. Vincent’s College Schools of Nursing.
She started her career as an RN after first obtaining a nursing diploma at the Temple University School of Nursing. Over the subsequent years, she gradually earned a Bachelor of Science degree at University of Bridgeport, Master of Science in Nursing at Georgia State University, and both a Post-Master’s Nurse Practitioner Certificate and a Doctorate of Nursing Science degree at the Yale School of Nursing, all while working in the aforementioned roles.
Barbara and her husband, Rick, have four children and two grandchildren, with a third grandchild on the way. They split their time between living in the Greater New Haven area of Connecticut and the Treasure Coast of Florida with their Shih Tsu and two Maine Coon Cats.
The Experience of Critical Illness as an Older Adult: The Patient’s Perspective
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
3:50 PM - 4:05 PM Central Time
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
