School of Nursing
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School of Nursing was organized in 1917 as a
Department of Education in the University which gives
the undergraduate training of the student nurse the
dignity and opportunity of university standing. Its
growth and ideals have been fostered and encouraged by
the active and sympathetic interest of members of the
faculties of the University and of the College of
Medicine.
Two courses of study
are offered, a three-year course in the School of
Nursing leading to the degree of graduate nurse, and a
five-year combined course in the College of Arts and
Sciences and in the School of Nursing leading to the
joint degrees of Bachelor of Science and of graduate
nurse. The larger educational range and the more
advanced professional instruction provided by such a
course is not only attracting, in increasing numbers,
a better prepared and more ambitious grade of
students, but is making it possible to equip them for
the new and important lines of work opening up in the
nursing service.
It is the purpose of
the School to prepare its students to meet community
needs, to develop a program of nursing education which
will adequately prepare them to give efficient care to
the sick in the home and in the hospital, and to fill
responsible positions in the fields of administration,
teaching, and the various forms of public health work.
The University connection of the School, its
association with a College of Medicine and a teaching
hospital under University control make possible to
provide the scientific instruction and experience
essential in modern nursing education.
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