The Department of Nursing, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Ihiala, was founded by His Grace Most Rev. Charles Heerey CSSP of Blessed Memory 1953 and managed by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ after the exit of the expatriate Holy Rosary Sisters. The school has experienced progressive metamorphic growth and development since its inception and therefor has achieved over and above the aims and objectives for which it was established. It has over the years , through her varied programmes and course content, provided her students world-class standards in nursing training thereby supplying the hospital here as well as in other places the high level manpower without which they might not have recorded successes in their health care delivery.