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.
Doctoral study at the Yale School of Nursing was launched in 1994 with the Doctor of Nursing Science program. In 2006 the switch from the D.N.Sc. program to the Ph.D. program in nursing received final approval by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The program’s major goal is to prepare expert nurse scholars in understanding health care issues and delivery while advancing the development of nursing knowledge. At the completion of the program, students are expected to be able to design and conduct research relevant to nursing practice; extend the theoretical base of nursing through empirical investigation of nursing phenomena; test conceptual models and theories that are derived from the knowledge of nursing and related disciplines; assume leadership roles in the profession and in the larger health care system; and disseminate knowledge generated by independent, collaborative, and multidisciplinary research efforts. The doctoral program should be completed in four to five years of full-time study.
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