elects YSN's Funk as fellow
Marjorie Funk, a professor at the School of Nursing (YSN) and expert on health care technology, has earned the highest honor in the nursing profession -- election to fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing.
When she is formally inducted at the academy's annual meeting in November, Funk will become the 13th member of Yale's active faculty to be elected to the organization.
Defining her research program as "the wise use of technology in patient care," Funk explores the appropriate and safe use of technology, the equitable distribution of technology and the human-machine interface. Specifically, she has examined the potential of distance monitoring to improve health care and studied the role of human workers in interpreting and acting upon data gathered mechanically.
Through her clinical practice with cardiac patients at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Funk came to appreciate that technology can actually form an additional bond between provider and patient.
"As I matured as a practitioner, I realized that I had to become the master of the technology and not its servant. Only after I became proficient with technology could I transcend it and use it as a vital means to the end of holistic care," Funk says.
"Only when I felt truly comfortable with the machines did I feel safe enough to devote more time and attention to my patients' comfort," she adds. "Technology no longer dominated my practice, but instead became an adjunct and support to it. I began to appreciate that being technically competent is one of the most visible ways a nurse can exhibit caring."
YSN Dean Catherine Lynch Gilliss praised Funk's "enormous contributions both to Yale and to nursing. Marge is not only a superb clinician with an important program of research, she is a generous and insightful mentor both to YSN students and to her colleagues in clinical practice."
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