School of Nursing
Sister Helen Jarrell, first directress of the Loyola School of Nursing
Credit: Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections
Continuing to take the lead in providing strong educational service in the professions, Loyola established a school of nursing in 1935 with the late Sister Helen Jarrell, R.N. as the first dean.
The school was re-organized in 1948 and became the first fully-accredited collegiate nursing school in Illinois. It pioneered many developments in the classroom, laboratory, hospital and clinic under the guidance of Dean Gladys Kiniery. At this time, the school administered two degree programs, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education.
Student nurses assisting with the mobile X-ray unit, 1955
Credit: The Tuberculosis Institute of Chicago and Cook County
A program in public health nursing leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Public Health was inaugurated in 1938.