The Preliminary Education of Nurses

Reforming Nurses: Historicizing the Carnegie Foundation’s Report on Educating Nurses

“…23 The editorial selection reveals a commitment to theory-based practice for professional nurses and gives insight into the dilemma facing nursing educators as they struggled to extend that theory into the curricula of training schools. 24 One nursing educator described the complex theoretical decisions facing nurses in 1902:…”

Celebrating the Contribution of Florence Nightingale to Contemporary Nursing

“…Her unique contribution to nurse education was to initiate the block apprenticeship training program which would soon become commonplace throughout schools of nursing everywhere, i.e., short bursts of periodic theoretical input within the school of nursing followed by periods of nursing practice. She was also credited with introducing the concept of the preliminary training school (PTS) which persists around the world in one form or another in schools of nursing to this day (Nutting, 1901;Parry, 2013).…”

Feminist Friendship: Isabel Hampton Robb, Lavinia Lloyd Dock and Mary Adelaide Nutting

“…She succeeded in incorporating a third year of training in the theory of nursing at Johns Hopkins, an idea proposed by Robb (Hampton, 1893(Hampton, /1949. She went on to advocate the development of preparatory academic education for nurses (Nutting, 1900).…”