Abstract
The study focuses on the first three years in the history of Masaryk State School in Prague (1936-1938), which introduced an integrated approach to the duties and competences of nurses and social workers in interwar Czechoslovakia. It is the first study which pays attention to this unique institution supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
The study is based on an analysis of Czechoslovak and U.S. archival sources of institutional, legislative, and personal nature (correspondence and diaries). The authors take into account 1920s and 1930s discussions on the notion of a combined nurse and social worker, they highlight problems which attended the establishment of Masaryk State School, and show how its profile and curriculum differed from other nursing schools in interwar Czechoslovakia.