Talk:Yale School of Nursing

First Claim
The Yale School of Nursing webpage at http://doc.med.yale.edu/nursing/historical/ states it: "The Yale University School of Nursing was founded in 1923. It was the first independent University-based school for the education of nurses. This Web site presents information about the history of the school, its faculty and students."

This claim doesn't seem to hold true. For example, the University of Minnesota School of Nursing was founded in 1909 as referenced by it and others sources (1), it was an independent (read autonomous) unit, that served multiple educational programs including the first BSN program. It had a dean, it had it's own faculty and students as well as a separate facility. The AANAC History of Nursing Milestones states "1909: The University of Minnesota bestows the first bachelor’s degree in nursing, setting a new standard in the training of nurses.". The Introductory Text Fundamentals of Nursing: Active Learning for Collaborative Practice doesn't mention YSN, but does show this exact same statement in 1909 on it's history of nursing timeline on pages 6-7.

In addition, looking at the Yale University School of Nursing: A Brief History by Dr. Helen Varney (YSN 63') errorneously states that "In 1910 the first school of nursing was established as part of a university system at the University of Minnesota" and then uses the citation Goldmark Page 486 which is in reference to the Goldmark Report commissioned by Yale and the Rockefeller Foundation that researched the ideal training forms of nursing and it was in direct relation to public health.

In reading through the Goldmark Report, particularly pages 486-490, Goldmark doesn't seem to be implying that the University of Minnesota is not already meeting the "first" qualification in fact she outright states it. Then she goes on to remark that "since 1916 no less than 13 universities and 3 colleges have agreed to such a course (of professional, college level education at the BSN type degree).

The sources reference here and on the YSN webpage and history book suggest that: the Yale School of Nursing was the first school of nursing to adopt and promote the professional educational curriculum that the Goldmark Report defined.

Nothing so far has even remotely suggested it is the first university based school of nursing. For that reason I am editing the wikipedia entry.

For transparency sake, I am not a nurse, nor even in the medical field. I did not attend either institution. Randomeditor1000 (talk) 18:23, 18 April 2015 (UTC)