When Mary Adelaide Nutting assumed the role of superintendent at Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses in 1894, she initiated a three-year nursing program with eight-hour workdays for student nurses. Like her teacher, Ms. R obb, she believed strongly that nursing should be controlled by nurses and not by doctors or hospitals administrators.
She was an ardent supporter of education for nurses and advocated that students should have completed some prescribed course s before they actually entered nurses training. As Chair of the Department of Nursing and Health at Columbia University in New York, Ms. Nutting became the first Nursing Professor in the world.
With Ms. Lavinia Dock, Ms. Nutting gained the admiration and respect of nurses throughout the nation for the difficult task of co-authoring The History of Nursing . The entire four-volume set is contained on microfiche at both Santa Fe Community College and the University of Florida.