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First nursing school in Texas opens
On this day in 1890, the John Sealy Training School for Nurses, the
first formal nursing school in Texas, opened with eighteen students in
Galveston's two-month-old John Sealy Hospital. The school was
established by a group of philanthropic ladies of that city as an
educational entity independent of the hospital. In 1896, however, the
school was subsumed by the University of Texas Medical Branch. Training
schools subsequently opened in hospitals throughout the state. In the
majority of hospitals the actual education students received was
secondary to their service in the wards caring for patients. This
pattern of training nurses predominated until well into the 1960s. By
1991 UTMB had conferred more than 4,000 nursing diplomas or degrees.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- JOHN SEALY HOSPITAL
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON
- NURSING EDUCATION
- NURSING
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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