December 15, 2000
Nursing School launches a time capsule on the Internet
In January 2001, the UW School of Nursing will launch a “cybernetic time capsule” commemorating its long history as a school and its impact on nursing education and practice as the top-ranked school of nursing in the country, if not the world.
The time capsule is actually a web page featuring videotaped interviews with students, staff, faculty and deans about what it means to be a nurse or a student of nursing today and how this has changed over the past 20 years. Many current medical practices are the direct result of nursing research, and the roles that nurses play in clinical practice have expanded dramatically.
To commemorate the new millennium, the completed “cybercapsule” will be available for previewing in January 2001, at http://www.son.washington.edu/cybercapsule. It will then be “locked” using a special password. A countdown clock on the Web site will mark the time remaining until the capsule is opened.
Those interviewed for this innovative time capsule will also offer predictions about the future of nursing education and practice 20 years hence.
The next generation of students and faculty can check these predictions in 2018, the 100th anniversary of the UW School of Nursing, when the “capsule” will be opened using a special password.
In addition to the digital video interviews, the website will contain scanned photographs and documents about recent technological advances in nursing education as well as links to School publications about nursing research and a timeline of the School’s almost 100-year history that was published last year in its alumni magazine, “Connections.”
