Jan Kaminsky, BA, BSN
Johns Hopkins University
Prior to obtaining her nursing degree at Johns Hopkins University , Jan Kaminsky completed a BA in Women’s Studies at Rutgers University . Ms. Kaminsky completed a very challenging 13-month accelerated BSN program at Johns Hopkins while concomitantly engaging in a leadership fellowship and extracurricular volunteer activities. She volunteered in the East Baltimore “Success by Six” program and worked with a team to mount a campaign entitled “Minds On, TV’s Off” based on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ television restriction recommendations for children two years of age and under. Ms. Kaminsky was selected as a Fuld Fellow, a competitive leadership program within the JHU School of Nursing. As a Fuld Fellow, she participated in research on resuscitation practices in pediatrics.
Ms. Kaminsky is devoted to advancing the health of women and children. Her passion about improving the health of vulnerable women grew during her work with a community service organization in South Africa while she was completing her undergraduate degree in Women’s Studies at Rutgers University. It was this experience that led her to a career in nursing. For two years following her graduation from Johns Hopkins University, she practiced in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2006 she has been practicing in the pediatric intensive care unit of Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ.
Ms. Kaminsky recently contributed a chapter on nursing to the anthology Leading the Way: Young Women's Activism for Social Change by Dr. Mary Trigg. She is eager to teach in the classroom and in clinical settings the importance of family-centered care in the specialty of child health. Through her international volunteer work and academic work in women’s health, Ms. Kaminsky seeks to deepen and expand her knowledge in women’s and child health. She is particularly interested in the vulnerable population of incarcerated mothers and their infants in a prison nursery setting.
