Revista Ciencias Biomédicas (Dec 2013)
Desarrollo y crisis de la institucionalización de los estudios de enfermería en Cartagena, Colombia (1920-1950)
Abstract
The first half of the 20th century was characterized by the gradual institutionalization of the Colombian university studies. In Cartagena, the education of nursing began in 1903 by personal initiative of the Doctor Rafael Calvo Castaño, physician, educator and intellectual from Cartagena, who occupied the most important posts in the faculty of medicine. On January 21th of 1919 by recommendation of its inventor, the program was annexed to the faculty of medicine and natural sciences of the Universidad de Cartagena as school of nurses and midwifes. The transfer act was validated by decree of the Government of the department of Bolívar. The development of the Nursing school in the thirties and forties was put together with the needs of attention, product of the problems of national and local public health. However, when the decade of the fifties arrived, it fell down immersed in a deep academic and administrative crisis, for what it was closed by national entities because it did not comply with the new regulations. Already in the second half of the 20th century it would be restructured and opened in conformity by the new requirements. Rev.cienc.biomed. 2013;4(2):377-386
