Nursing students in the simulation laboratory, circa 1972

The School of Nursing was established at the University of Alabama and opened in September 1950 with one faculty member (Dean Florence A. Hixson) and 17 students.  Although the school was based in Tuscaloosa, after 1953 nursing students were assigned to University Hospital in Birmingham for clinical experience.  The school was moved to Birmingham in 1967 where it became one of the schools at the university's medical center.  The nursing school has been housed in the same building at UAB since 1971, although there have been several additions and renovations to the original structure.  New state-of-the-art simulations labs were included in the building's most recent expansion project, which was completed in 2018.  In the school's 75-year history, there have been just five deans of nursing. 
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