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.
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