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The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the nursing training program both opened in 1889. In the ensuing decades, founders M. Adelaide Nutting, Isabel Hampton Robb, and Lavinia Dock established what would become the national model for nursing education.
After turning out generations of exceptional nurses, in 1983 the School of Nursing was established as the eighth division of the Johns Hopkins University—and opened its doors to students in 1984. In 1998, the School moved to a new state-of-the-art education and research building on the East Baltimore campus, the Anne M. Pinkard Building.
Today the School of Nursing continues to redefine nursing education through a unique combination of academic rigor, extraordinary nursing scholarship, and unparalleled opportunities for nursing graduates.
Notable alumni
Vashti Bartlett, Red Cross nurse during World War I, and in Vladivostok, Manchuria, and Haiti
Alice Fitzgerald, Director of the Nursing Bureau, League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva
Elizabeth Gordon Fox, Director of the Bureau of Public Nursing, American Red Cross
Mary Adelaide Nutting (World's first professor of nursing)
Isabel Hampton Robb (Founder of modern American nursing theory and one of the most important leaders in the history of nursing, first Dean of the School)
Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie (First woman Colonel of the Canadian army and Matron-in-chief of the Canadian Army Medical Corps)
Ernestine Wiedenbach (Major nursing theorist in maternity and clinical nursing)
