ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the start of the modern nursing movement when the first Nightingale-influenced training schools opened in the United States in 1873. It explores the development of professional nursing organizations that sought control of both the practice and the education of nurses during the first half of the twentieth century. The history of nursing education in the United States often begins with the opening of Nightingale-influenced training schools in 1873. Lillian Wald, founder of the Henry Street Settlement in 1893, played important role at Teachers College developing curriculum for a post-graduate program in public health nursing. Teachers College served as a model in universities throughout the country for post-graduate education in nursing. The goal of such education beyond the diploma program was to develop leaders for the future of nursing in education, practice. The post-graduate programs in nursing that were required for advancement into teaching, administrative, and public health positions for the most part discriminated against black women.
