Introducing Modern Nursing to Sri Lanka: Rockefeller Foundation and Colombo School of Nursing
By: Soma Hewa
Open Access
|Jun 2014Abstract
This paper examines the Rockefeller Foundation's nursing program at the Colombo School of Nursing from 1948 to 1952. With a $20,000 grant and two North American nursing instructors, the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored a modern nursing education program in Sri Lanka. The project succeeded in spite of many obstacles.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/gmj.v19i1.6960
Galle Medical Journal 2014 19(1): 17-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4038/gmj.v19i1.6960 | Journal eISSN: 1391-7072
Language: English
Page range: 17 - 22
Published on: Jun 2, 2014
Published by: Galle Medical Association
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2014 Soma Hewa, published by Galle Medical Association
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.