The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) is the

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Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

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. Established in 1889, it is one of the nation's oldest schools for nursing education. It is continuously rated as the top nursing program in the US per U.S. News & World Report.

Origins

The founder

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' 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

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was eventually founded in 1889 after in depth consultation with

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on its planning, organization, structure and curriculum.

Location

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is located on the

East Baltimore campus along with the

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, School of Medicine, and the

Academics

The School of Nursing offers a variety of programs from pre-licensure programs to Master's, DNP and PhD programs, online options, post-degree opportunities, and nursing prerequisites.

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) and also offers Interdisciplinary Fellowship research on

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, and

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disparities in underserved populations, as well as research focused on

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health prevention and risk reduction, care at end of life, community-based

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, health disparities, interpersonal violence, maternal-

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, and

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management areas. The school is also home to the country's first and only

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Fellows Program in nursing. The school offers a special program for Arts and Science College students to transfer after two years.

Notable alumni

Vashti Bartlett Vashti Bartlett (November 15, 1873 – July 7, 1969) was an American nurse who served with the American Red Cross during World War I, and in Siberia and Manchuria after the war. She also worked in Haiti, Oklahoma, and Newfoundland on various mis ...

, Red Cross nurse during World War I, and in Vladivostok, Manchuria, and Haiti *

Alice Fitzgerald Alice Louise Florence Fitzgerald ARRC (March 13, 1875 — November 10, 1962) was an American nurse who served in Europe during and after World War I. She earned a Florence Nightingale Medal from the International Committee of the Red Cross in ...

, Director of the Nursing Bureau, League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva * Elizabeth Gordon Fox, Director of the Bureau of Public Nursing, American Red Cross *

Mary Adelaide Nutting Mary Adelaide Nutting (November 1, 1858 – October 3, 1948) was a Canadian nurse, educator, and pioneer in the field of hospital care. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University's first nurse training program in 1891, Nutting helped to found ...

(World's first professor of nursing) * Isabel Hampton Robb (Founder of modern American nursing theory and one of the most important leaders in the

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, first Dean of the School) * Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie (First woman Colonel of the Canadian army and Matron-in-chief of the

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) * Ernestine Wiedenbach (Major nursing theorist in

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and clinical nursing)

References

External links

Official Website
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