The Lincoln School for Nurses, also known as Lincoln Hospital and Nursing Home School for Nurses, and Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing, was the first
nursing school for
African-American women in New York City.[1] It existed from 1898 to 1961.[1][2] It was founded by
Lincoln Hospital (then named The Home for the Colored Aged) in
Manhattan. The hospital and nursing school, moved to 141st Street, between Concord Avenue and
Southern Boulevard in
Mott Haven, the
South Bronx, after 1899.
The 1914 demographics of the hospital and nursing school has been reported as: the hospital patients were primarily white; the nursing home patients were primarily black; the doctors were white males; and the nurses and nursing students were black females.[6]
In 1928
Isabel Maitland Stewart directed the first university-sponsored studies in nursing using a research team approach. What made the survey unique was that it focused on both the nursing process and results of care in terms of patient comfort and safety.[7]
^Sibley, John.
"Pioneering Hospital Director Florence Small Gaynor", The New York Times, February 10, 1971. Accessed September 17, 2020. "In the bleak years or the early thirties, at Lincoln High School in Jersey City, a black girl named Florence Small let herself dream of a career in nursing, an all but unreachable goal."
^Shaw, Stephanie J. What Women Ought to Be and Do: Black Professional Women Workers in the Jim Crow Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pg 234
^Pinckney, Darryl, "Shadows" (review of In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line, by George Hutchinson), Nation 283, no. 3 (July 17, 2006), pp. 26-28.