HOPKINS SCHOOL OF NURSING

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is the nursing school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1889 following the bequest and instructions of Johns Hopkins, who directed the establishment of a training school for female nurses connected to Johns Hopkins Hospital. The design and curriculum of the training school were influenced by consultations with Florence Nightingale. Early leaders Isabel Hampton Robb and Mary Adelaide Nutting shaped the program into an influential model for nursing education in the United States, extending training from two to three years. The hospital-based diploma school closed in 1973, and in 1984 the university re-established the School of Nursing as a degree-granting division, admitting its first baccalaureate class that September. Today, the school offers pre-licensure, Master's, DNP, and PhD programs, along with online and post-degree options. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. The school hosts several research centers, including the Center for Equity in Aging, the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center, and the PROMOTE Center, and is home to the country's first Peace Corps Fellows Program in nursing. Notable alumni include Isabel Hampton Robb, Mary Adelaide Nutting, and Ernestine Wiedenbach.