1923 YSN Time Line

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1923

Based on the Report of the Committee for the Study of Nursing Education, the Rockefeller Foundation funds an experiment in nursing education which is the creation and development of the Yale University School of Nursing (YSN).

YSN is the first school on nursing to have the autonomy of a school of nursing with its own Dean, faculty, budget, and degree meeting the standards of the university and on a parity with the other schools and colleges of the University rather than organized under another department or school or encompassing a diploma in nursing.

	Annie Warburton Goodrich is appointed founding Dean; the first woman Dean at Yale University. Miss Goodrich's agenda includes: student clinical experience for educational purposes correlation of theory and clinical practice nursing education in accord with university academic standards a curriculum that integrates both preventive and curative care use of the case assignment teaching method for clinical experience
	Effie Jane Taylor is named Associate Dean, Superintendent of Nurses in New Haven Hospital, and last Superintendent of the Connecticut Training School (CTS). CTS is the predecessor school to YSN. Miss Taylor is the first Professor of Psychiatric Nursing in the world.
	Bertha Harmer, Assistant Professor (third from left) is a member of the first faculty. Six of the eleven faculty members are in this picture. Advocates of university education for nurses at Yale University are President James Rowland Angell, President of the Carnegie Foundation prior to becoming president of Yale; Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, DrPH, Professor and Chair of the Yale Department of Public Health; and Milton C. Winternitz, M.D., Dean of the Yale Medical School.

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