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Lillian Wald
Founder of the Henry Street Settlement and the founder of community nursing -
Dorothea Dix
Helped establish psychiatric institutions in eleven different states -
Linda Richards
She was the first trained nurse. -
Clara Barton
Founder of the American Red Cross -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Started the Nurses Associated Alumni, which today is known as the American Nursing Association -
Eliza Mahoney
The first African American Registered Nurse -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
First Head of Nursing program at Columbia University -
Margatet Sanger
First to start the promotion of contraceptives for women -
Lavinia Dock
Co authored the first two volumes of the History of Nursing and completely authored the third and fourth volumes -
Annie Goodrich
Dean of the 1st nursing program at Yale University. Nurses know her as the crusader and diplomat of nursing. -
Mary Breckinridge
Formed the Committee of Mothers and Babies which is later became the Frontier Nursing Service -
Hildegard Peplau
The “Mother of Psychiatric Nursing” Founded the first psychiatric nursing program. -
Lillian Harvey
Started the first BSN program in Alabama at Tuskegee University -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Known as the “Mother” to the Union Soldiers during the Civil War -
Ida V. Moffett
Founder of the first accredited nursing program -
Dorthea Orem
Founded the Orem Model of Nursing, also known as the Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. -
Virginia Henderson
Helped defined a nurse as being someone who helps individuals gain independence of the patients and to assist to their health and recovery -
Madeleine Leininger
Founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing Movement -
Martha Rogers
Founder of the Society of Rogerian Scholars. Author of the book An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing -
Jean Watson
Developer of the Human Caring Theory.
