The University of Utah College of Nursing

The foregoing brief history of medicine—focused primarily on Florence Nightingale and the birth of nursing as a profession and then on the evolution of psychiatric nursing in the United States and its secure grounding within NIMH—not only provides the backdrop but also sets in place the building blocks for a discussion of the Graduate Psychiatric Nursing Program at the University of Utah. There is no way to capture in a brief review all those who have made significant contributions to this program. Nor could I find one specific text or review article that drew together all the foundation pieces for a comprehensive history of the University’s graduate psychiatric nursing program. I know for certain that I have missed some significant people, events, and contributions and for that I apologize. I hope my efforts here will begin to redress this omission and gather some scattered references and names for the use of future historians.