| AdminHistory | In 1991, the College of Nursing and Midwifery joined Liverpool Polytechnic, which achieved University status in 1992 and became Liverpool John Moores University. The Liverpool Nurses Training Schools which were formerly located at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Broadhgreen Hospital, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and the Liverpool Maternity Hospital (and prior to this, dispersed under the District Nursing Schools until the 1979 formation of the Liverpool Area Nursing School) were then taught at the Polytechnic's Nursing Department and the Central Mersey College of Health Care Studies, bringing together other hospitals and nursing schools in the St Helens and Knowsley District and Warrington District. The College became a School in 1991, and is now known as the School of Nursing and Allied Health. Since 2013, all nurses have been educated to degree level.
More information on the history of nursing studies can be found in: Webster, R., and Wilkie, S., 2017. The Making of a Modern University: Liverpool John Moores University (London: Third Millenium Publishing), p. 68-75; Parkes, M. and Sheard, S., 2012. Nursing in Liverpool Since 1862 (Lancaster: Scotforth Books); and Nightingale, F., 1865. Organization of nursing: an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing (Liverpool: A. Holden), digital PDF copy available from the Wellcome Collection at: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/tygfd4zf |