The IU School of Nursing has received multiple research grants from the National Institutes of Health.
As of 2017, U.S. News & World Report ranked the IU School of Nursing at twenty-eighth in the country for its master's degree program and twenty-third for its DNP degree; College Choice ranked IUPUI's undergraduate nursing program twenty-third among U.S. colleges and universities.
[2] The Indiana University Training School for Nurses was established at Indianapolis in 1914; its first student arrived on June 19, 1914.
)[7] Fitzgerald arrived in Indianapolis in the fall of 1913 to help equip the new hospital and organize the nurses training school.
[8] Bertha Ellen Rizer of Worthington, Indiana, was the first nursing student to arrive for training on June 19, 1014.
They received the nursing diplomas on June 13, 1917, at commencement ceremonies on the IU campus in Bloomington, Indiana.
[11] Until the completion of the IU School of Medicine's academic building (Emerson Hall) on the present-day Indiana University Indianapolis campus, nursing students attended classes at Long Hospital and at the IU medical school's facility at Market Street and Senate Avenue, which was several blocks east of the hospital.
[12] With the opening of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children in 1924 and the William H. Coleman Hospital for Women in 1927, both of which are located on the IU Indianapolis campus, clinical training opportunities were significantly increased for nurses in the areas of pediatrics, maternity, and gynecology.
[16] George Ball donated an additional $10,000 to improve the landscape around Ball Residence in 1929 and create the Nurses' Sunken Garden and Convalescent Park, which included formal gardens and Robert William Davidson's bronze statue, "Eve," at the center of a fountain.
(Previously-earned credits could shorten the hours required for the student to earn a graduate nursing diploma.)
[20] Faculty of the IU School of Medicine and the IU College of Liberal Arts initially provided training for nursing students in Indianapolis that included classroom lectures and demonstrations, as well as clinical training at Long Hospital.
[22] After World War II, when the demand for trained nurses continued to remain high, the IU School of Education at IU Bloomington expanded its curriculum by offering its first program leading to a master's degree in nursing education.
[28] The opening of the nursing school's new academic facilities in Indianapolis in the mid-1970s provided opportunities to introduce new instructional methods.
It was also an innovator in the use of digital technology and distance learning, including the development of online nursing courses and degree programs, as well as instructional videos.
[30] The present-day IU School of Nursing's curriculum provides professional training and a broad, foundational education that encourages high standards of scholarship and expert care of patients.
[34] In 2017, U.S. News & World Report ranked the IU School of Nursing twenty-eighth for its master's degree program and twenty-third for its DNP degree among U.S. colleges and universities and ranked the IUPUI School of Nursing's online graduate program thirty-ninth.
A $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health and a $300,000 appropriation from the state legislature provided additional funding to construct a television studio in the building.
In 2008, it opened the Jean Johnson Schaefer Resource Center for Innovation in Clinical Nursing Education, a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) training facility at IU Indianapolis.
[43] The School's research projects over several decades have established its "national reputation as a center of excellence for scholars of nursing education.