Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing: Houston Center	Texas Woman´s University College of Nursing: Houston Center	The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston

In August 2006, Texas Woman´s University College of Nursing: Houston Center moved in its recently completed new facility. At that time, the three main nursing education programs at the Texas Medical Center were located in buildings completed in the 21st century. The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston had occupied its own building since 2004 and Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing: Houston Center returned to the Texas Medical Center and a new building in January, 2006.

A small exhibit congratulating these institutions on their new facilities and remembering the history nursing education in Texas was on display at the HAM-TMC Library. The Library has provided resources for nurses since its beginning in the 1950's and will continue to support education for nurses with resources, including electronic ones, in the future. This on-line exhibit focuses on the historic resources which were on display. The Clinical and Research Nursing Resource Guide highlights some of the resources the Library currently makes available.

Early 20th Century Nursing Education in Texas

Abbreviated Timeline of Nursing Education in Houston, Texas

Sample Curricula: 1918, 1937, 2006

Caps and Pins

Texas Medical Center: A Hospital Study of the City of Houston and Harris County, Texas, 1946-1947 conducted under the auspices of The Texas Medical Center, Inc. by James A. Hamilton and Associates Hospital Consultants. Section IV Special Studies: Needs and Educational Facilities for Nurses. Please see copyright information on this resource.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES and SAMPLE CHAPTERS

History of Texas Nursing Twenty-three titles for beginning research.

Texas School of Nursing Yearbooks The McGovern Center is actively collecting yearbooks produced by nursing schools in Texas.

This pamphlet shows a lecture schedule for student nurses at the Government Hospital for the Insane. This Hospital was started after the Civil War and its name was changed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in 1916. See the National Archives and Records Administration for more information on the Hospital. This pamphlet and one for 1909-1910 lectures are available at the McGovern Center.

SAMPLE CHAPTERS from early 20th century nursing education history and text books and a brief bibliography of early 20th century nursing text books available at the McGovern Center are shown below.

	Bacteriology and Surgical Technic for Nurses by Emily A.M. Stoney, 1916. Chapter VII Instruments necessary in different operations ...
	White Caps: the Story of Nursing by Victor Robinson, 1946. pages 261-267 cover early training schools and state registration of nurses.
	A Course of Lectures on Medicine to Nurses by Herbert E. Cuff, 1898. Chapter 1 Germs and Infection
	Elementary Materia Medica Including Drugs and Solutions: A Text-Book for Students of Nursing by William A. Krueger, 1928. Chapter VIII Actions of Drugs on the Body
	Practical Points in Nursing for Nurses in Private Practice by Emily A.M. Stoney, 1911. Chapter V Nursing in Special Medical Cases, section on Diphtheria

Early 20th Century Nursing Education Books Ten titles for beginning research.

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