Syracuse University School of Nursing
Syracuse University School of
Nursing
Onondaga
County Medical Society, 1906-1956, The
Onondaga County Medical Society?, Syracuse? 1956, pg. 72.
Syracuse
University School of Nursing
The
Syracuse University School of Nursing was established in May 1943, as
an outgrowth of a merger of two hospital schools of nursing, the
Syracuse Memorial and the Good Shepherd. This was done to promote
the development of the new program, offering a broader education and
making available to student nurses the same opportunities for personal
growth and professional status afforded young women in other fields of
endeavor.
The University School of Nursing offers a four-and-a-half year
curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science (Nursing).
The School of Nursing, with its Department of Education, is an
independent, autonomous school in the University, having equal status
with other schools and colleges. The school building, which forms
part of the Medical Center, is located on the University campus, and
houses the office of the Dean and faculty. Here also are class,
seminar, and demonstration rooms as well as the Nursing Arts
Laboratory. Students receive clinical experience at the Syracuse
Memorial Hospital, University Hospital (Good Shepherd Hospital) and
Syracuse City Hospital for Communicable Diseases. They receive
their clinical experience in Psychiatry at the Willard State
Hospital. Student nurses have eight weeks' guided experience in a
public health agency during the Junior or Senior year.
During the first two years of the curriculum, the students take courses
in English, Psychology, Sociology, Nutrition, the physical and
biological sciences and electives of her choice. She also begins
her study in individual, family and community health. In the
second semester of her Sophomore year, she has carefully-supervised
practice and study in the care of patients, which continues through
part of the second semester. The third and fourth years provide
the student with opportunities to study problems of sickness and health
in the general and communicable disease hospitals of the Medical
Center, outpatient clinics, a psychiatric hospital and numerous
community agencies. A final academic semester, at the beginning
of the fifth year, she completes her professional and academic study.
To date, the Syracuse University School of Nursing has graduated 450
students.
Submitted 17 March 2006 by Pamela
Priest