[1] Based in Edinburgh, the body was founded in 1889 with the opening of the small Central Training Home at North Charlotte Street.
Due to the high demand for training for district nurses, the QNIS soon moved (in 1890) to the grand premises at Castle Street, where it remains.
Following the work of William Rathbone in Liverpool in 1859, district nursing developed a similar approach in Scotland.
The Glasgow Sick Poor and Private Nursing Association was founded by Mrs Mary Orrell Higginbotham in 1875.
[2] She undertook an apprenticeship in the Glasgow Western Infirmary and Miss McAlpin's Nursing Home.