Nurse education qualification courses have graduate status. Traditionally, from the times prior to Florence Nightingale, nursing was seen as an apprenticeship, often undertaken in religious institutes such as convents by young women, although there has always been a proportion of male nurses, especially in mental health services. In 1860 Nightingale set up the first nurse training school at St Thomas' Hospital, London. Nightingale's curriculum was largely base around nursing practice, with instruction focused upon the need for hygiene and task competence. Her methods are reflected in her "Notes on Nursing", (1898). Some other nurses at that time, notably Ethel Gordon Fenwick, were
Nightingale College other more established nursing colleges in the region, Nightingale College is not regionally accredited. Nightingale College Nightingale College, located in Salt Lake City, Utah is a for-profit college which educates registered nurses. The College is a proprietary post-secondary institution and offers three education programs, the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) Program, the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BDN) Program and the RN-to-BSN Program. The college has satellite locations in three states. Although the official Nightingale website aggregates the NCLEX passrate, the NCLEX first time pass rate is well below national accreditation benchmark of 80% at 48.65% for the second quarter of 2017