The nursing-school test: no school of nursing seated here — the county's schools were its hospital cities'

the tested negative, with the succession question answered at county frame briefly

A school of nursing needs a hospital to train in, and this town has never had one; the test confirms the logic is the record's, not just arithmetic: no school of nursing, training school for nurses, or hospital nursing program seated in New Carlisle stands in Chapman, in Howard, in the Polk run, in the Schools section's record, or in any source reached. The county's nursing schools, answered at county frame briefly as the row directs, were its hospital cities' schools, attached to its hospitals in the standard succession: South Bend's Epworth Hospital and Training School — founded with the hospital in 1894, its first class of five nurses graduated in 1897 under superintendent Margaret Brennan, renamed with the hospital as Memorial Hospital's school in 1945, and closed in 1988 on the state nursing-history record; and Saint Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing in the South Bend–Mishawaka seat — opened 1907 on the same record, merged in 1950 into the Holy Cross Central School of Nursing, its last class graduated in 1952. Those courses are the sister cities' whole and print here at boundary size only, as the succession into which a New Carlisle nurse of any era would actually have entered. The modern limb of the succession question gets the same discipline: nursing education in the county today runs through its colleges in South Bend and Mishawaka, and New Carlisle's own seat in that pipeline is a high-school club layer, not a school — New Prairie's published club list includes HOSA, the health-occupations student organization, among its extracurriculars. HOSA coursework and health-careers exploration prepare a student to apply to a nursing school; they confer no nursing credential, enroll no nursing class and graduate no nurses, and this section states the distinction because the row requires it: NPUSC's health-careers coursework is not a nursing school, at any strength. The test therefore closes as a printed negative in both eras — no nursing school was ever seated here, and none is seated here now — with its settlers named for completeness: the Indiana State Board of Nursing's historical program lists, against which any forgotten diploma program would have had to be approved to graduate a licensed nurse.

Sources:

1. State nursing-history record (Ball State University digital media repository, Indiana nursing newsletters file) — Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, South Bend: opened 1894 as Epworth Hospital and Training School, renamed 1945, closed 1988; Saint Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, South Bend: opened 1907, merged 1950 to form Holy Cross Central School of Nursing, last class 1952. Boundary citation at county frame.
2. Indiana United Methodist heritage record, "Epworth Hospital, South Bend" (inumc.org) — Epworth Hospital and Training School incorporated 28 May 1894; first class of five nurses graduated 1897 under Margaret Brennan; renamed Memorial in June 1945.
3. New Prairie United School Corporation record as published — HOSA among the high school's clubs; no nursing program carried.
4. Chapman (1880), Howard (1907) and Polk (1916–17) as banked, and searches run November 2026 for a school of nursing seated in New Carlisle — negative at the strength stated.