VCU School of Nursing

The School of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University offers academic programs from the baccalaureate to doctoral level.

Established in 1893, the School is part of a leading academic health sciences center on the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Campus.

Miss Cabaniss entered Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore and after graduation in 1893 held the position of night supervisor until 1894.

Isabell Hampton Robb, director of the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University and a mentor for Miss Cabaniss, selected her for this position.

Miss Cabaniss took charge of the operating room at the Medical College of Virginia and under her leadership "order came out of chaos.

During the first quarter of the 20th century when southern law and social practice demanded separate facilities for the races, the Medical College of Virginia established a separate school of nursing for African-American women to provide trained personnel for the St. Philip Hospital.

[7] Both the Medical College of Virginia and St. Philip faculty taught were used by other programs because of the rich clinical facilities and high educational standards.