The first ever nursing program is established as a result of Dr. Jean L. Hunter, the first-ever Director of the new program. Dr. Hunter has had experienced working with small institutions, having been the former chairman of the Department of Nursing at Holy Names College in Oakland. The article, shows how Dr. Hunter was a significant figure in forming Dominican’s first nursing program. In her own words, “No one in nursing thinks that all a nurse needs is science. All the accrediting organizations see the value of the liberal arts - there simply isn’t room for them in a two-year program. The full baccalaureate is a better nurse.”

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     Dr. Margaret Fink was a member of the second graduating class enrolled in the Dominican-St. Luke’s School of Nursing. Characteristics and qualities that include are being compassionate, competent and to be flexible that nurses are trained to practice and to refine in the field are continued to be instilled in today’s learning, just as how they were when Dr. Fink went to school. This teaches students to understand how certain qualities help make a nursing student refine their skills in practice and to really appreciate the significance in providing care to a population who is unable to take care of themselves.