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Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix helped the mentally ill a great deal. She presented a bill to the state legislature to expand the state hospital for the mentally ill at Worcester and it was passed. Later on, she provided her services during the Civil War and was appointed the Superintendent of female nurses. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann Bickerdyke set up Army hospitals for the Union soldiers during the Civil War. She was seen as the "mother" to the soldiers. She moved around with the Union Army taking care of the wounded and opening hospitals. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards was the first to graduate from the nurse-training program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. She was also a part of the National Women's Hall of Fame. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney was admitted as a student at theNew England Hospital for Women and Children where she became the first African American registered nurse. She was a cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. During the Civil War, she contributed a great deal to the nursing of wounded soldiers as well as advertising for donations to help the soldiers. -
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb became the first Superintendent of Nurses and Principal of the Training School at John Hopkins Hospital. She wrote the Nursing texbook called Nursing: Its Principles and Practices. -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Dock wrote one of the most important nurse's manuals for drugs, Materia Medica for Nurses (1890). She was a part of the Nurses' Settlement in New York City (1896–1915). She was also an editor of the American Journal of Nursing -
Lillian Wald
Lillian Wald founded the Henry Street Settlement where she taught immigrant women about health and hygiene. She also helped found the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and Columbia University's School of Nursing. Wald was also an advocate for children and women's rights. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Mary Adelaide Nutting was the Superintendent of nurses at John Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. She also helped found the American Journal of Nursing. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger opened the first family planning and birth control clinic. She is the founder of what is now called Planned Parenthood. -
Annie Goodrich
Annie Goodrich became the first Dean of Nursing at Yale University. She also held many Superintendent positions at hospitals such as St. Luke's, New York, and New York Post-Graduate. -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia Henderson became the first teacher to teach nursing at the Norfolk Protestant Hospital in Virginia. She wrote the Nursing Studies Index and Principles and Practice of Nursing. -
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge established the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky. She also helped to establish the first school of midwifery in New York. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida V. Moffett became the head of the nursing program at Birmingham Baptist Hospitals School of Nursing. Later on, the school was named the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing after her. She also led the school to become one of the schools for the United States Cadet Nursing Corps. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Lillian Holland Harvey Became the Dean of Nursing at the Tuskegee Institute. She also led the start-up of the first nursing program in Alabama. -
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau published the book, Interpersonal Relations in Nursing, which was about psychodynamic nursing. She received nursing's highest honor, the Christiane Reimann Prize. -
Martha Rogers
Martha Rogers established the Visiting Nurse Service pf Phoenix, Arizona. She was also a professor and head of nursing at New York University. -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem published a book called Nursing: Concepts of Practice. She also developed the Self-care Deficit Theory of Nursing. -
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger founded the worldwide Transcultural Nursing Movement. She has also written or edited twenty-seven books including the Journal of Transcultural Nursing. -
Jean Watson
Jean Watson was honored by the Fetzer Institute with the national Norman Cousins Award. She also holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She is the founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado.
