The first school of nursing principals to be established in the United States was the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing. This nursing school was founded in 1873 in New York City, and was operated until the hospital was closed in 1969. However, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, which was founded in 1889, is considered to be the first nursing school that was founded in the country. Florence Nightingale was a top consultant as the school was being developed. To this day, Johns Hopkins University has one of the top nursing schools in the country, according to the U.S. News and World Report.
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and aims to provide students with a well-rounded education that is focused not only on caring for patients but also on research, advocacy and continuous education. It receives significant funding from the National Institutes of Health in order to research nursing practices and advances. The world's first nursing professor, Mary Adelaide Nutting, graduated from the nursing school as did Isabel Hampton Robb, who is considered to be the founder of the nursing theory that is used in the United States today.
The University of Pennsylvania nursing school is also considered to be one of the best nursing schools in the country. The school is widely known for its distinguished nurse practitioner program, specifically its nurse practitioner adult program and nurse practitioner pediatric program. It also has a top ranking for its nursing service administration program, which focuses on marketing, human resources and financial management, allowing graduates to move forward in their careers into the administrative level of nursing. The school was established in 1935, and continues to receive significant funding from the National Institutes of Health for nursing research.
