Vassar Brothers Hospital School of Nursing

Vassar Brothers Medical Center - Archives

Vassar Brothers Hospital first year student nurses with instructor 1959 - Image Source

Collection Facts

Extent:

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Historical Context

Established as a training school for hospital nurses in 1890, the VBH School of Nursing educated, trained and graduated over one thousand nurses in its 82-year existence on the campus of Vassar Brothers Hospital. The School combined rigorous academic classroom lectures with hands-on patient experience, and had a reputation for strictness, caring for each other, and excellent patient care.

Scope of Collection

Photographs, mementos and scrapbook pages compiled by students and alumni; individual collections given by family members in memory of a graduate nurse; Yearbooks from 1934 to 1972; transcripts of students who graduated from 1907 to 1972.