Good nursing care has often been demonstrated to make life and death differences. It would be wrong to discount the importance of intuitive knowledge in nursing. But it would be dangerous folly to base our work on intuition alone, ignoring our responsibility to advance our science to better achieve our ideals. I hope that as you tour our website, you will realize how exquisitely Yale faculty discharge the responsibility to advance nursing science while also contributing as leaders in practice and educating the next generation of nursing leaders. Excellence in clinical research.
Good science begins with good questions.
Dr. Margaret Grey could see that interpersonal issues were affecting how the adolescents in her practice managed their diabetes. She asked herself how teens could be helped to deal with those issues in a way that wouldn't harm their health. That question led to the development of her coping skills training program, which in turn led to a group of healthier and happier kids with diabetes. Because the majority of our faculty members practice clinically, good questions find their way from the examining room to the research office. Support for people who live with chronic illness .