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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
During the civil war Bickerdyke was the most resourceful nurse. She also had as many as 300 hospitals built during the war and worked on 19 different battle fields. -
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix is know for advocating for the mentally ill. Also at the age of 59 years old she became the superintendent over the nurses in the Union Army during the Civil War. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards was the first to graduate from the New England Hospital for Women and Children. She was also the first to establish a system for keeping medical records. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Mahoney was the first African American woman to become a nurse. She was also a member of Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, which was mostly whites. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton was well known for her work during the Civil War in which she would take supplies to wounded soldiers. However of most well known contribution is that she is the founder of the American Red Cross -
Isabel Hampton Robb
During her life she was the head of the John Hopkins school of nursing. While there she wrote the text "Nursing: Its principles and practices. -
Lavinia Dock
Dock is known best for writing the first drug manual. The manual known as "Materia Medica for Nurses ." -
Lillian Wald
When she was young Lillian Wald provided good care for the poor and was focused on humanity and decency. She is also the founder of Henry Street Settlement. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Mary Adelaide Nutting was one of the founders of the American Journal of Nursing. She also developed classes in hygiene, anatomy,and physiology. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was an advocate for birth control fpr women. This is a major contribution because it gave women power over their body -
Annie Goodrich
Duriing WWI Goodrich wanted there to be a training school for nurses in the army and later was made the dean. She seen these schools as a example for other nursing schools around the world. -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia is mostly famous for her definition of nursing. The definition states "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge." -
Mary Breckinridge
In 1925 Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service, which provided healthcare for the poor Appalachian region. She also believed that healthcare for children should begin prenatal. -
Ida V. Moffett
During her life Ida Moffect was in charge of the largest nursing school in Alabama. She was also the director in two nursing units. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
In 1948 Harvey started the first baccalaureate program in Alabama. She was also one of the first people to be in Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame. -
Dorothea Orem
Orem is the creater of the Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. The theory states that "Nurses have to supply care when the patients cannot provide the care to themselves." -
Madeleine Leininger
One of the main contributions she gave was to bring culture into nursing. This concept of nursing became known as transcultural nursing. -
Jean Watson
Jean Watson is best known for of theory on the science of caring. Watson believes " that for nurses to develop humanistic philosophies and value system,a strong liberal arts background is necessary." -
Martha Rodgers
Martha Rodgers is best known for her development of the Society of Rogerian Scholars. The society will help to advance nursing as a science -
Hildegard Peplau
Peplau was known to most people as "the mother psychiatric nursing. For all of her contributions to the nursing profession she was given the Christiane Reimann Prize.
