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Aisha Tate, MU Sinclair
School of Nursing student, completes a health assessment
of 4-year-old Miranda Bradshaw. All nursing courses are
considered service-learning courses, which demonstrates
the faculty’s belief that as professionals, nurses
share their knowledge, skill and expertise within their
communities. Photo by MU Publications and Alumni Communication
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Century of Caring
Note: This story was published originally
in the fall 2003 issue of MIZZOU, the magazine of the MU Alumni
Association.
The uniforms have changed over the past
100 years, but the Sinclair
School of Nursing’s mission remains the same: to educate
students for a career of caring for others. The school is preparing
to celebrate the centennial of its first graduate.
The celebration, including Student Nursing Week, March 1-6,
and a special event at the Midwest Nursing Research Society’s
convention, will lead up to a centennial banquet on April 30,
2004. The school hopes to induct 100 founding members into the
Nightingale
Society, a gifting organization. Also, Tiger
Place, the school’s aging-in-place community, will
officially open.
Recapping
the Past 100 Years of MU Nursing |
1901 |
The school’s precursor, the Parker Memorial
Hospital Training School for Nurses, opens |
1904 |
Alice Sipple becomes the school’s first graduate. |
1920 |
The nursing program is officially founded within the School
of Medicine. Principal Nance Taylor recruits at high schools. |
1940 |
The school offers a three-year combined program of nursing
and arts and science. |
1954 |
Moving toward independence, the department becomes the
School of Nursing within the medical school. Students graduate
from the school’s first four-year brachelor’s
degree program. |
1968 |
The master’s degree program begins in an effort
to increase research and specialized nursing skills. |
1973 |
The School of Nursing officially becomes an independent
school. |
1979 |
The new nursing building opens. |
1994 |
A three-campus doctoral program begins within the University
of Missouri System. The nursing program is renamed the Sinclair
School of Nursing after Columbia-area donors Charles and
Josie Smith Sinclair. |
2001 |
A new online program gives nurses with associate degrees
or program diplomas a simple way to earn a bachelor’s
degree in nursing. |
2003 |
An accelerated program for students with prior degrees
begins in response to a nursing shortage. |
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