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Dorothea Dix
Dix was exposed to people who favored federal involvement in social welfare, as well as the lunacy reform movement. When she returned to America, she observed the treatment and welfare of the insane and social outcasts. She worked to bring awareness and understanding to "insane" human beings. She was instrumental in the establishment of the first mental hospital. She was also the superintendant of Army Nurses during the Civil war -
Mary Ann Bikerdyke
Mary was a nurse and provided various forms of healthcare to the Union army during the Civil war. Joined the field hospital at Fort Donelson and later worked on the first hospital boat. was appointed to be chief of nursing under Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Linda Richards
Richards was Americas first trained nurse, she also started many nursing training programs in the United States and Japan during her career -
Mary Mahoney
Americas first African-American registered nurse. she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduated Nurses which later merged with the ANA. Helped get minorty population and equal opportunity in nursing -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton was a pioneer nurse, teacher, and humanitarian. During the civil war she established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies to wounded soldiers. She eventually organized the Red Cross. She founded the American Red Cross to assist people in any disaster.Known as he "Angel of the Battlefield," -
Lavinia Dock
She wrote Materia Medica for Nurses which was one of the first textbooks for Nursing. This book contained information on various drugs. She also wrote many other books. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
She organized the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses also organized the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada. She spent more or her career implemented a grading policy for incoming nursing students. They had to have adequate scores before they were qualified to be a nurse. This allowed nursing students to prove their abilities and receive qualification. -
Lillian Wald
She started to teach a home class on nursing for Lower East Side (New York) women. Not long thereafter, she began to care for sick residents of the Lower East Side, and soon decided to devote her life to this cause. Another of her concerns was the horrendous treatment of African-Americans and as a consequence, she was one of the founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Mary Nuttin Created a sound 6-month program for nursing students. became the world's first nursing professor when she joined the faculty of the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger Birth control activist and founder of the American Birth Control League. Her efforts made contraception available to American women. During her career, she founded an organization that would become known as Planned Parenthood. -
Annie Goodrich
Was president of the American Nurses Association for a few years. She graduates from New York Hospital Training School for Nurses.She was involved in many different programs while in school with eventually let her to develop and become dean of the first nursing program at Yale University, and years later she developed the graduate program at Yale University also. -
Mary Breckinridge
An American midwife who founded the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies. This organizations original purpose was to train Amrican midwives and care for mothers and children. -
Ida V. Moffett
Famous nurse who was an iconic symbol of nursing care. She coined a few key phrases of 'nursing wisdom'. A few of them are.. "Compassion means taking action, even at the sacrifice of one's own comfort and convenience." "The patient is the most important person in the hospital, just as the customer is the most important person in any business." "Values must be spoken, demonstrated and drilled into each new arrival in the staff. Silent values are useless." -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Lillian Harvey Dean of the Tuskegee University School of Nursing for nearly 30 years. Her program was the first to offer BS of nursing in Alabama. -
Hildegard Peplau
Dr. Peplau was interested in the nurse-client relationship and focused much of her time on what the nurse can learn by forming strong relationships with patients. If focused on the benfits of the nurse-client relationship can be beneficial to both parties involved. She also discerned the "6 nursing roles". -
Madeleine Leininger
Dr. Madeleine Leininger is the founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. This idea noted the importance of cultural beliefs and practices for each patient as they related to nursing care. -
Dorothea Orem
Orem was the founder of the 'Orem model of nursing' or 'Self care deficit nursing theory'. This theoy states that nurses have to supply care when the patient cannot provide care to themselves. -
Virginia Henderson
She is famous for her definition of nursing which she defined as 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 -
Martha Rogers
Martha Rogers Established the Visiting Nurse service in Arizona. Rogers is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. -
Jean Watson
Founder of the Center for Human Caring. Her theory of Human Caring goes beyond traditional patient-nurse relations. She says that mind, body, and spirit must all be cared for in order to achieve health.
