Jordan Michael Yakoby DNP, ACNP-BC, CCRN, CNE, FNYAM, FCCM, FNCS
Director and Associate Professor of Nursing at Touro University in New York City
Dr. Jordan Yakoby is a fellowship trained acute care nurse practitioner in neurocritical care and stroke neurology, completing his fellowship at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton, NJ. Currently, he is the Director and Associate Professor of Nursing at Touro University in New York City. His academic training includes a DNP from Chatham University in Pittsburgh. He anticipates completing his EdD in Nursing Education from Teachers College at Columbia University in Fall 2024. He has also obtained a master's in business administration from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and both his MSN and BSN from Georgia Southern University in Savannah, GA.
An inducted Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, Neurocritical Care Society, and of the New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. Yakoby is very passionate about the education of nurses and advanced practice nurses, with much recent work in the development of a critical care nurse residency and advanced practice provider training in the Neuro ICU. In his most recent role, Dr. Yakoby improved first time NCLEX-RN pass rates from 20% to 100% in 18 months, utilizing his expertise in curriculum, assessment, and evaluation to overhaul the prelicensure nursing education program. Through extensive student success programming, risk identification work, program evaluation, curriculum revision, and faculty development, Dr. Yakoby was able to implement robust evidence-based changes in the program resulting in improved program outcomes. Yakoby has brought this experience to bear in consulting opportunities for RN and NP residency programs.
In 2023, Yakoby was appointed by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice. The Council advises both Congress and the Secretary on matters related to nursing education and practice, workforce development, finance and care delivery, accessibility, and other issues under Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act. Congress created the council in 1964 to advise the House of Representatives Committee on Commerce and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Dr. Yakoby serves on the boards of directors of several organizations in the areas of anti-human trafficking (Freedom Network USA in Washington, D.C.), sexual violence treatment and prevention (New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault in Trenton, NJ), education (Chicago Collegiate Public Schools in Chicago), health and research (Neurocritical Care Foundation in Chicago), and as a panelist of a state government agency (New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs in Albany, NY). Outside of these things, Dr. Yakoby spends a significant amount of time on scholarship, having delivered conference presentations and published several articles, book chapters, and continuing medical education courses on various critical care and nursing education topics. Dr. Yakoby previously served as an accreditation site evaluator for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and currently for the National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA).