where did the first nurses start
When Loretta Ford, RN, and Henry Silver, MD, started the first nurse practitioner program in 1965, at the University of Colorado, no one was certain what the outcome would be.
To address the shortage, nursing schools began developing another degree option that would prepare registered nurses through a two-year program. The first Associateâs degree in Nursing (ADN) program was started in 1952 at Fairleigh Dickinson University. An ADN is defined by many nursing entities as âan entry-level tertiary education nursing degree.â In the U.S. this type of degree is usually awarded by community colleges or similar nursing schools.