| Johns Hopkins School of Nursing | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Vigilando (Latin) |
| Motto in English | Forever Watchful[1] |
| Established | 1889 |
| Type | Private |
| Dean | Martha N. Hill |
| Academic staff | 210[2] |
| Students | 712 (227 Master and 30 PhD)[2] |
| Location | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://www.son.jhmi.edu/ |
The Johns Hopkins 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 pre-eminent schools for nursing education ranking first in the nation;[3] it is also among the top recipients of research funding in nursing from the National Institutes of Health.[2] The school's mission is to provide leadership to improve health care and advance the nursing profession through education, research, practice, and service.[4]
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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.[5]
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is located in the East Baltimore campus of Johns Hopkins University together with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the School of Medicine. Known collectively as the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Campus,[6] it comprises several city blocks, radiating outwards from the Billings building of the Johns Hopkins Hospital with its historic dome.
In addition to offering a 2-year+13½ month accelerated Baccalaureate Program, the school offers graduate and certificate programs in the following areas:[7]
The school has three research centers (Center for Nursing Research and Sponsored Projects, Center for Collaborative Intervention Research and the Center on Health Disparities Research)[8] 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.[2] The school is also home to the country’s first and only Peace Corps Fellows Program in nursing.[9][10][11] The school offers a special program for Arts and Science College students to transfer after two years.[12]
Overall, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing ranks #1 nationally among peer institutions according to the U.S. News & World Report.[3] The school ranks #2 in Community Health[13] and #7 in Nursing Service Administration.[14] The school ranks #6 among nursing schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, receiving approximately $7 million per year.[2] Nearly 95% of the school's baccalaureate graduates pass the NCLEX on their first try.[15] Amongst the faculty, over one-third are ranked as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.[2]
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 unrepresented communities giving over 12,000 volunteer hours annually and conducting 40 different community-based service programs.[16]
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 the U.S. News and World Report annual ranking of American hospitals.[17]