IN the same year the University of Newcastle celebrates its 50th birthday, the School of Nursing and Midwifery will recognise a milestone of its own.
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The largest school in the Faculty of Health at Callaghan Campus turns 25 this year, with a host of activities planned to commemorate quarter of a century of education.
Lecturer and research academic Dr Margaret Harris said the school had graduated thousands of talented nurses, midwives, as well as Masters and PhD students since training was moved out of hospitals and into the classroom in 1990.
The School of Nursing originated at the College of Advanced Education in 1985, but five years later became part of the university.
This year the university will hold an anniversary awards night, three-day research program and reunion dinner among other festivities.
Speaking on the eve of International Nursing Day, held every year on May 12, Dr Harris said the school had been invaluable to the Hunter’s health system.
‘‘It’s by far the biggest school in the faculty of health and medicine and we have graduated thousands and thousands of students over the past 25 years,’’ Dr Harris said.
‘‘They are taught excellent problem solving skills and taught the ability to think critically.
‘‘A lot of these students stay in the Hunter and rotate around John Hunter Hospital, Belmont, Maitland and the private sector.’’
