Saga – Evolution of Curriculum – Part 2

This episode of the NLN Nursing EDge Unscripted Saga track is part two of four exploring the evolution of curriculum. It delves into the early efforts to formalize nursing training school curricula and teacher training during the first decade of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses. The episode highlights the revolutionary ideas of leaders like Agnes Brennan and Isabel Hampton Robb, who emphasized the need to balance theory and practice and called for specialized teacher training. It also discusses the significant achievement of opening Teachers College, Columbia University, to graduate nurses in 1899, led by M. Adelaide Nutting and Isabel Hampton Robb. The episode concludes by reflecting on the accomplishments of the Society in formalizing nurse training and setting a new pathway for nursing education.

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