Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Motto	Vigilando (Latin)
Motto in English	Forever Watchful [1]
Type	Private nursing school
Established	1889
Parent institution	Johns Hopkins University
Dean	Sarah Szanton [2]
Academic staff	230 (80 full-time, 150 part-time) [3]
Students	1075 (2014) [3]
Location	Baltimore , Maryland , United States
Campus	Urban
Website	nursing.jhu.edu

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is the nursing school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1889, it is one of the nation's oldest schools for nursing education.

Origins

The founder Johns Hopkins' desire for a training school for female nurses was formally stated in a posthumous 1873 instruction letter to the board of trustees of the Johns Hopkins institutions. The School of Nursing in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins Hospital was eventually founded in 1889 after in depth consultation with Florence Nightingale on its planning, organization, structure and curriculum. ^[4]

Academics

The School of Nursing offers pre-licensure programs to Master's, DNP and PhD programs, online options, post-degree opportunities, and nursing prerequisites. ^[5]

Research centers

The school has four research centers (Center for Innovative Care in Aging, Center for Nursing Research and Sponsored Projects, Center for Collaborative Intervention Research and the Center on Health Disparities Research) ^[6] and also offers Interdisciplinary Fellowship research on violence, pain, and health disparities in underserved populations, as well as research focused on cardiovascular health prevention and risk reduction, care at end of life, community-based health promotion, health disparities, interpersonal violence, maternal-child health, psychoneuroimmunology, and symptom management areas. ^[3] The school is also home to the country's first and only Peace Corps Fellows Program in nursing. ^{[7] [8] [9]} The school offers a special program for Arts and Science College students to transfer after two years. ^[10]

Notable alumni

• Vashti Bartlett, Red Cross nurse during World War I, and in Vladivostok, Manchuria, and Haiti
• Alice Fitzgerald, director of the Nursing Bureau, League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva
• Elizabeth Gordon Fox, director of the Bureau of Public Nursing, American Red Cross
• Sara Virginia Ecker Watts Morrison, nurse and First Lady of North Carolina
• Mary Adelaide Nutting, first professor of nursing
• Isabel Hampton Robb, founder of modern American nursing theory and one of the most important leaders in the history of nursing, first dean of the school
• Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie, first woman Colonel of the Canadian army and Matron-in-chief of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
• Ernestine Wiedenbach, nursing theorist in maternity and clinical nursing

References

1. "Symbols | Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing". Nursing.jhu.edu. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
2. "Sarah Szanton named Johns Hopkins School of Nursing dean". Johns Hopkins University. August 18, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
3. "Facts and Figures".
4. History of the School of Nursing
5. "Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing" . Retrieved October 15, 2012.
6. Archived December 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
7. "Peace Corps Fellows Nursing Program Nearly Doubles". AScribe Medicine News Service. December 19, 2005.
8. Media-Newswire.com - Press Release Distribution (August 22, 2008). "Press Release Distribution - PR Agency". Media-Newswire.com. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
9. Peace Corps. "Johns Hopkins University – School of Nursing | Coverdell Fellows | Peace Corps". Peacecorps.gov. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
10. "Nursing". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved November 27, 2010.

Further reading

• James, Janet Wilson. "Isabel Hampton and the Professionalization of Nursing in the 1890s," in Morris J. Vogel and Charles E. Rosenberg, eds. Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine (1979) pp 201–244
• Kaufman M et al. Dictionary of American medical biography. Greenwood Press, Westport CN, vol 2. Page 640.
• Ramos, Mary Carol. "The Johns Hopkins Training School For Nurses: A Tale Of Vision, Labor, And Futility," Nursing History Review (1997), Vol. 5, pp 23–48.

External links

• Official Website