Yale University (School of Nursing)
Established in 1923, the Yale School of Nursing was the first School of Nursing to be based in a university. Since that time, the School has enjoyed a national and international reputation for excellence in education, research, and clinical practice. Our graduates have gone on to assume positions of leadership around the world. The School's educational programs are consistently ranked in the top 10 for clinical education, and the School ranks sixth in funding from the National Institutes of Health to nursing schools for research. The research-intensive environment of Yale University, with its full range of academic disciplines, provides an exceptional environment for advanced study in nursing.
MISSION STATEMENT
The ultimate mission of the Yale School of Nursing is to contribute to better health care for all people. Through the systematic study of the nature and effect of nursing practice, students are prepared to become effective nurse clinicians and nurse scholars capable of improving practice through sound clinical judgment, scholarship and research.
In this endeavor, we are mindful not only of our privilege and freedom as educators in this resource-filled private university, but also our responsibility and accountability with colleagues to consumers. The former allows us to be creative in our thinking and innovative in our practice, while the latter demands a commitment to implementation and a realism in our problem solving.
To accomplish our mission, it is necessary to provide settings for learning in which students may see the contributions of modern nursing to improving the quality of health care for all people through expert practice, research, and health policy. To develop patient-centered nurse clinicians/scholars, we must seek educational and clinical sites that provide an interdisciplinary setting where learning occurs in the context of delivering care that is organized around the patients' needs.
To assure that commitment to better health care for all people is met, it is necessary that our belief in a multi-racial, multi-cultural, non-sexist society be made operational. This requires learning environments where the approach to both patients and students is based on reason and respect for individual differences and free from bias and stereotypes. It is our responsibility to shape the design of health care and education systems, working with consumers and colleagues in the belief that improving patient care improves education and, likewise, improving education improves patient care.
Recognizing that this is a time of transition for nursing and for health care delivery, it will be necessary for the School to make serious obligation of faculty and administrative time and effort to affect consumers' and colleagues' acceptance of the changed capabilities of the profession. This must be done with equal dedication to the character of University life--scholarship in clinical service, building the bases in theory and research on which current and future education and practice depend.
ACADEMICS
The Yale School of Nursing has always been committed to the confluence of research, practice, and education. The faculty believes in practicing what it teaches, and teaching what it practices. As a result, students work alongside clinically active faculty members, senior nurse researchers, and experts in health care policy. The array of faculty expertise is vital to the accomplishment of the School's mission and curricular goals. This approach is unique among programs in graduate education in nursing.
The Yale School of Nursing is a vibrant, exhilarating, and rigorous place to study nursing at the graduate level. Students from diverse backgrounds meet in an environment that nurtures an appreciation for high standards and the pursuit of excellence in nursing practice.
The School offers a master's program with nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, nurse-midwifery and nursing management, policy and leadership specialties. Students may enter the master's program with or without previous education in nursing. The Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) is designed to provide graduate-level nursing education for those who hold baccalaureate degrees, but who have no previous nursing education. The GEPN is three years in length. Students who currently hold a license as a registered nurse can complete their master's education in two years. For further information see Clinical Specialties.
Post master's certification is available in six areas: acute care nurse practitioner, adult nurse practitioner, gerontological nurse practitioner, pediatric nurse practitioner, oncology nurse practitioner, and psychiatric-mental health. Application and curricular specifics for each offering are found below under Post Master's Certificates.
We launched our Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing program in the Fall of 2006 to replace the Doctor of Nursing Science Program, which was founded in 1994. The PhD program builds on our strengths in research, scholarship, clinical practice and education by catalyzing the interplay of concepts among these realms to develop the next generation of leaders engaging in Nursing policy and practice. The doctoral program should be completed in four to five years of full-time study.
School name: Yale University (School of Nursing)
Address: P.O. Box 9740
Zip & city: CT 06536-0740 New Haven
Phone: 203.737.1793
Web: http://nursing.yale.edu/
|
|
|
Nursing schools