The Year in Review: 2023-2024
From the Dean:
Transparency and Inclusivity: Fostering a deep and sustained internal cultural shift toward meaningful and fulfilling participation from all faculty, staff, and students in advancing our mission of “better health for all people.”
Organizational Excellence: Stabilizing the nursing faculty, staffing infrastructure, research funding, and student debt load to ensure a solid foundation for our future.
Cutting Edge Technology and Innovation: Continuing to grow and market YSN’s leading position in the simulation space, expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for nursing as a profession, and focus on innovative program development and growth.
Global and National Leading Position: Yale nurses and midwives are the leaders in addressing persistent health and health care challenges such as health disparities, poor health outcomes, a lack of greater accessibility, quality of clinical care, and wellness. We will enhance YSN’s presence in these areas and reintroduce the school at every level.
New Century, New Leadership
YSN Celebrates 100 Years of Excellence
In the Community
Events
YSN Receives Historic Gift for Community Scholars Program
YSN Student Captains Winning Team at Global Health Competition
Creative Writing Awards Enters Third Decade
Bellos Lecture Welcomes Former ANA President
YSN in Action
Dr. Tatiana Sadak and Students Go to Capitol Hill
TRANSforming Nursing
Aging Well
In the News
Community and Clinical Partnerships
Student Spotlights
Staff Recognition for Their Contributions to Our Success
Faculty Expertise
Academic Program Development
Cutting-Edge Technology
The Simulation Team is currently working with vendors focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and Extended Reality (XR) technologies in hopes of infusing these modalities into nursing education. Plans for the furnishing of the inaugural XR Immersion & Innovation Lab are being coordinated with tentative completion by Fall 2024.
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is actively mapping the current and future landscape of AI integration within nursing education, research, and technology. These efforts began with a comprehensive faculty survey to assess existing work and future interests in AI, alongside identifying faculty experts. In response to the provost’s call for faculty-led input, YSN participated in faculty panel on February 14 at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, featuring Dr. Christine Rodriguez, Dr. Zhao Ni, and Dr. S. Raquel Ramos. Future initiatives include establishing a centralized AI infrastructure tailored for nursing research and education, and pioneering AI-integrated clinical education programs. Additionally, YSN plans to enhance simulation technologies with AI, providing students immersive, state-of-the-art learning experiences in response to challenges with clinical placements.
Around the World
University of Tokyo
Accra School of Hygiene
The University of Hong Kong School of Nursing
Peking University
Governance and Organization
To enhance faculty governance, YSN has developed a charter that will clearly outline the responsibilities and reporting structures between the various faculty committees at YSN and the BPO. This charter will help ensure that every faculty member’s perspective is taken into account and their input is effectively integrated into all BPO decision-making processes. By establishing this framework, we are striving to create a more inclusive and representative governance structure that values and upholds faculty participation and ensures all voices are heard. To enhance the faculty impact on BPO’s mission, Dean Emami has created the role of BPO Chair. We are delighted that Alison Moriarty Daley will be the first to serve in this leadership role.
In order to ensure cohesion and integrated YSN leadership a Shared Leadership Council (SLC) has been formed that includes the dean, deputy dean, program chairs, and associate and assistant deans and CoS. The SLC will work collaboratively to advance the greater good and the success of the school in a team-based spirit where Academic, operations, and administrative leadership of YSN work in alignment with shared vision and priorities.
The YSN senior administrators on the SLC are currently developing clear work scopes that identify the specific roles and responsibilities of each position. In line with this, the Board of Permanent Officers (BPO) are codifying a governing charter to establish clear communication lines and structures for our key school committees and working groups. These work scopes and committee charters will be shared transparently, so YSN faculty and staff can clearly identify responsibilities, roles, and how the specific needs of the school are championed by committees and leaders. Every unit across the school has been conducting its own strategic action plan, which lay the groundwork for embarking on AY24-25 re-envisioning in the fall.