University of Washington School of Nursing

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School of Nursing
Type Public nursing school
Established1945 [1]
Dean Azita Emami [2]
Academic staff
448 [3]
Administrative staff
199 [3]
Students999 [3]
Undergraduates 424
Postgraduates 575
Location
Seattle
,
Washington
,
United States

47°39′02″N122°18′33″W / 47.65055556°N 122.30916667°W / 47.65055556; -122.30916667
Campus Urban
Website nursing.uw.edu

The University of Washington School of Nursing is the nursing school of the University of Washington.

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The school offers five degree programs accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education: one bachelors, two masters, and two doctoral. [4] During the 2022–2023 school year, 424 undergraduate students and 575 graduate students received instruction from 448 faculty members, including 63 tenure track faculty, 26 professorial faculty, 42 teaching associates, 40 clinical instructors, 40 fellows from the American Academy of Nursing, and 237 adjunct faculty. [3]

History

In the summer of 1918, the University of Washington began offering public health nursing courses in response to the impact of the Spanish flu on Washington's public health infrastructure. [5] In 1921, the university formed the Department of Nursing and appointed Elizabeth Sterling Soule, the state health department's supervisor of public health nursing, as dean. [5] The university began offering a bachelor's degree in nursing in 1923 and was the first university to do so on the West Coast. [5] In 1931, the university began offering clinical training for nurses at Harborview Hospital. [5] The Department of Nursing was renamed the School of Nursing Education in 1934 and in 1945, it became an independent School of Nursing. [1] [5] At the time of its founding, it was the West Coast's first nursing school and the second university-affiliated nursing school in the United States. [1] Upon Soule's retirement as the school's first dean in 1950, she was named "The Mother of Nursing in the Pacific Northwest" by Time magazine. [1] [5] During Soule's tenure, Soule actively discouraged black students from applying and Lela Duffel was the only black student admitted to the school. [5] In 2001, Dean Nancy Woods publicly acknowledged and apologized for the school's discriminatory past and in 2022, the school renamed an endowment that had been named in Soule's honor. [5]

In 1964, Dean Mary Tschudin, Dr. Katherine Hoffman, and Dr. Marjorie Batey developed a nursing research program with grant funding that aimed to define nursing as a research-based discipline. [5] [6] Research funding for the school increased from $26,000 per year in 1969 to more than $930,000 in 1976. [6] In 1969, the school was the birthplace of Madeleine Leininger's Primex concept which emphasized the expanded role of nurses in providing primary care and preventative services. [7] Dean Rheba de Tornyay developed the school's first PhD in nursing science in 1977 and the first recipient was Marcia Killien in 1982. [5] [6] In the late 1970s, Dr. Betty Giblin established the Sleep Research Laboratory, the first of its kind in the United States. [6]

The school has been top-ranked nationally "in all surveys of schools of nursing conducted since 1984", [4] an unprecedented 27 years without a break. [8] In 2011, U.S. News & World Report rated it in a three-way tie for the top spot with Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania. [9] US News & World Report 2020 Best Nursing Schools: Doctor of Nursing Practice ranked UW fourth in the country. [10]

In 2011, the Seattle Times reported low morale and "internal strife" ... "with separate departments and specialty areas pitted against one another and the school as a whole. [11] The situation was also exacerbated by budget cuts. Dean Marla Salmon tendered her resignation in May 2011 after three years in the post. Azita Emami was named Dean of UW School of Nursing starting July 1, 2013. Dr. Emami had been the dean at Seattle University from 2008–2013. [12]

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