The combine effort of the Charity Hospital New Orleans (CHNO) Board of Administrators, the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent DePaul, and the Louisiana State Legislature led to the establishment of Charity School of Nursing in 1894. The school started offering a Diploma Program, which had duration of 2 years for completion. In 1913 the program completion period was extended to 2½ years and further changed to 3 years in 1915. The current Nursing Education Building, which was completed in 1973, constitutes of 8 floors and encompasses an area of 200,000 square feet. The building comprises of:

• Traditional classrooms
• Skills labs,
• Two compressed video classrooms
• two human patient simulator labs
• A media center with a television production studio
• A Gym and lounges
• Offices and Conference room
• Limited Parking

In the year 1990, the nursing school was officially transferred from the Charity Hospital New Orleans CHNO) to Delgado Community College (DCC) and rechristened as Charity School of Nursing.

The school has a Mission is to prepare students from diverse backgrounds and cultures in a learning environment for entry level nursing positions, where they can offer competent nursing cares to the diverse community by meeting their variety health care needs. The clinical hands-on experience is offered to students in clinical settings all over the southeast Louisiana region.

The Charity School of Nursing offered programs include:

• An associate degree (admission twice a year)
• R.N. program (admission twice a year)
• A Nursing Success course
• An R.N. Refresher course

• LPN to RN transition track  ( 3 tracks)

1. Generic

2. Advanced placement via exam

3. Credit for experience with three

Semesters of nursing courses to complete.

The basic goal of Charity School of Nursing is to assist students and families, who are not able to meet their financial costs of higher education. The school wants to see that financial constraints do not stop the students from attending different programs. Office of Student Financial Assistance tries to ascertain the financial need of the students by ascertaining their actual expenses and income of their families.

Contacts:

Charity School of Nursing Campus
Delgado Community College,
450 S. Claiborne Avenue
New Orleans, LA  70112
Oh.504-571-1270
Fax. 504-568-5494