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Dorothea Dix: Known for humanitarian efforts on behalf of the mentally ill, commissioned as superintendent of women nurses for all military hospitals during the Civil war when she was over 60 years of age.
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Mary Ann Bickerdyke: organizer and chief of nursing, hospital, and welfare services for the western armies under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War.
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Linda Richards:system for charting and maintaining individual medical records for each patient. This was the first written reporting system for nurses which even the famous Nightingale System adopted: 1878 established a nursing training school Boston Coll
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Mary Eliza Mahoney: First African American Registered Nurse
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Clara Barton Founded the American Red Cross
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Isabel Hampton Robb appointed head of the John Hopkins Unive rsity published in 1900 for Nursing Ethics and 1907 Educational standars for Nursing
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Lavinia Dock: Published a book for nurses called Materia Medica for Nurses
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Mary Adelaide Nutting: leader in professional nursing and nursing education
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Lillian Wald: publishe The book The House on Henry Street followed in 1911 The Widows on Henry Street, considered the first visiting nurse, seminal founder of the NAACP 1909
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Margaret Sanger: Publish on a small scale What every girl should know but later published it in 1916. She believed in birth control that is now largly viewed as Planned Parenthood
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Annie Goodrich First Dean of Nursing at Yale President Nurses Association from 1915-1918
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Firt Dean of Nursing at Yale University
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Mary Breckinridge: Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, which soon became the Frontier Nursing Service.
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Ida Moffett created standardized nursing education first womena envolved in acheiving school accrediation in alabama
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Virginia Henderson: American nurse, researcher, theorist and author
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Lillian Holland Harvey:first baccalaureate of nursing program in the state of Alabama, was started under her leadership.
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Hildegard Peplau a Nursing Theorist and published in 1952 emphasised the nurse client relationship
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Dorothea Orem Nursing Theorist known for Orem model of nursing
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Madeleine Leininger: Developed Transcultural Nursing
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Martha Rogers: best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing.
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Jean Watson First Published in 1979 Nursing: The Phiolsophy and Science of Caring and Establishment of The Watson Caring Science Institute