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Yale-China Nurse-Training Course a Great Success
March 12, 2008
On March 5-12, 2008, Kristopher Fennie, Nancy Reynolds, and Angelo Alonzo from the Yale School of Nursing led an intensive quantitative research methods training course at Central South University School of Nursing in Changsha, China. This training course marked the beginning of the several similar intensive short courses to be conducted in Changsha by Yale faculty under the Yale-China Academic Nursing Leadership Development Program. Ann Williams, Professor of Nursing at Yale School of Nursing and the Acting Executive Director of the Yale-China Association, opened the training course.
“It is no small thing to travel halfway around the world, get off a plane late at night, and face forty eager, strange faces the next morning. The teaching days are long, the work is intense,” said Ann Williams, a few days into the course. “By every report, and my own observations, the course is a tremendous success. Not only are [the YSN faculty] helping to educate the next generation of nurse-leaders in China, [they] are extending and deepening the century-old relationship between Xiangya and Yale. Even in this day of instant messaging, there is no substitute for face-to-face personal contact.”
The Yale-China Association’s Academic Nursing Leadership Development Program brought together approximately 40 nursing faculty, nursing Ph.D. students, and nursing leaders from Central South University School of Nursing and the three hospitals affiliated with the Xiangya School of Medicine of Central South University.
“It is no small thing to travel halfway around the world, get off a plane late at night, and face forty eager, strange faces the next morning. The teaching days are long, the work is intense,” said Ann Williams, a few days into the course. “By every report, and my own observations, the course is a tremendous success. Not only are [the YSN faculty] helping to educate the next generation of nurse-leaders in China, [they] are extending and deepening the century-old relationship between Xiangya and Yale. Even in this day of instant messaging, there is no substitute for face-to-face personal contact.”
The Yale-China Association’s Academic Nursing Leadership Development Program brought together approximately 40 nursing faculty, nursing Ph.D. students, and nursing leaders from Central South University School of Nursing and the three hospitals affiliated with the Xiangya School of Medicine of Central South University.
