Johns Hopkins School Of Nursing

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) is part of the Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established in 1889, it is one of the nation’s oldest and schools for nursing education, ranking 1st in the nation. It is also among the top recipients of nursing research funding from the National Institutes of Health. The school's mission is to provide leadership to improve health care and advance the nursing profession through education, research, practice, and service.

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.

Location

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is located on the Johns Hopkins University East Baltimore campus along with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. It is one of the few campuses in the world where highly ranked schools of nursing, medicine, and public health are adjacent to one another and within steps of a top-ranked hospital.

Programs

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

Pre-licensure program options

• Summer-Entry Accelerated (13.5 months)
• Master's Entry into Nursing (21 months)

Master of Science in Nursing program options

• Adult-Geriatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Family Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
• Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
• Clinical Nurse Specialist (online option available)
• Health Systems Management (online option available)
• Health Systems Management/Clinical Nurse Specialist Dual Track
• Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Business Administration (MSN/MBA)
• Public Health Nursing
• Public Health Nursing, Nurse-Midwifery Track
• Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Public Health (MSN/MPH)
• Nurse Practitioner with Public Health Nursing Focus (MSN-NP/MPH)

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing

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 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. The school is also home to the country’s first and only Peace Corps Fellows Program in nursing. The school offers a special program for Arts and Science College students to transfer after two years.

Reputation and Ranking

Overall, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing ranks ^#1 nationally among peer institutions according to U.S. News & World Report. The school ranks ^#2 in Community Health and ^#7 in Nursing Service Administration. The school ranks ^#6 among nursing schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, receiving approximately $7 million per year. Nearly 95% of the school's baccalaureate graduates pass the NCLEX on their first try. Amongst the faculty, over one-third are ranked as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.

The school has 4 clinics in Baltimore (Lillian Wald Community Health Nursing Center, Clinic at House of Ruth Shelter for Abused Women, Clinic at St. Bernardine's School and the Clinic at Hillside Park Apartments) that reach out to underrepresented communities giving over 12,000 volunteer hours annually and conducting 40 different community-based service programs.

The School of Nursing is associated with nursing practice at the Johns Hopkins Hospital which was ranked as the top hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

Distinguished Alumni in Nursing History

• Mary Adelaide Nutting (World's 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 (Major nursing theorist in maternity and clinical nursing)

Publications

• Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine
• Hopkins Nursing e-News
• The Daily SON

External links

• Official Website
• Johns Hopkins Nursing Blogs
• Historical Highlights
• Historical Foundations

References

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 201â€"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.