{"id":38,"date":"2020-12-15T19:10:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnhistoryproject.digital.uic.edu\/blog\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2021-08-23T18:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T18:47:29","slug":"the-illinois-training-school-for-nurses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/itsnhistoryproject.digital.uic.edu\/blog\/the-illinois-training-school-for-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the ITSN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Illinois Training School for Nurses was established on September 21, 1880, dedicated to the prospect of training young women to care for the sick. The ITSN was the first Nightingale-type nursing program in the country. Twenty five directors, all women, headed the project. Despite facing opposition to the notion that women could be upstanding citizens and have a rigorous education, the Chicago Medical Society passed a resolution on November 13, 1880, affirming their support for the ITSN. On December 1st of the same year, the Cook County Commissioners and the Training School reached an agreement where the county would pay the school to staff one medical and one surgical ward of the Cook County Hospital. On May 1st of the following year, the first student nurses began working in the wards. Student nurses began working in private homes as early as 1883, expanding the work of ITSN graduates and simultaneously helping raise funds for the school. By the turn of the century, the ITSN provided nurses to every ward of Cook County Hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the turn of the century, the ITSN provided nurses to every ward of Cook County Hospital.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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While ITSN began admitting post-graduated nurses in 1895, it wasn\u2019t until 1920 that the formalized program for dieticians–requiring a college degree–began. In 1926, ITSN agreed to a merger with the University of Chicago, where the nursing school could begin offering a Bachelors degree to students. By 1929, the merger was complete and ITSN ceased to exist. From there on it became the Cook County School of Nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a fairly new and revolutionary concept, the ITSN attracted many pioneers to the world of nursing, including Mary Brown and Edith Draper from New York\u2019s Bellevue Training School and Laura Logan, who later established the University of Cincinnati School of Nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below you’ll find a pamphlet that was distributed to interested students and organizations highlighting some of the institution’s facilities, curriculum, and traditions. You can zoom in for better detail<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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