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Dorothea Dix
An American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann Bickerdyke , also known as Mother Bickerdyke, was a hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the American Civil War. Mother Bickerdyke became the best known, most colorful, and probably most resourceful Civil War nurse.
After the war ended, she worked for the Salvation Army in San Francisco, and became an attorney, helping Union veterans with legal issues. -
Madeleine Leininger
She was a nurse theorist. Her contributions involve the discussion of what it is to care. Most notably, she developed the concept of transcultural nursing, bringing the role of cultural factors in nursing practice into the discussion of how to best attend to those in need of nursing care. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton's work began in April 1861 during civil war. She established the means to distribute supplies. She,also, established the American Red Cross and was director. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards became the first student to enroll in the inaugural class of five nurses in the first American Nurse’s training school.She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoneywas the first black to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating in 1879. In 1896, Mahoney was one of the original members of a predominantly white Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada. It became the American Nurses Association. She was cofounder of the NACGN. In recognition of her outstanding example to nurses of all races, the NACGN established the Mary Mahoney Award in 1936. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
One of the founders of modern American nursing theory and one of the most important leaders in the history of nursing.
One of her most notable contributions to the system of nursing education was the implementation of a grading policy for nursing students. Students would need to prove their competency in order to receive qualifications.
In 1889 she was appointed head of the new Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, where she continued to suggest reforms, participated in teaching, and published the t -
Lavinia Dock
Was a nurse, author, pioneer in nursing education and social activist. Her books included a four volume history of nursing and what was for many years a standard nurse's manual of drugs.She campaigned for woman suffrage by picketing the White House in 1917, and was jailed. Cofounded the American Society of superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada, a precursor to the current National League for Nursing. -
Lillian Wald
In 1893, she started to teach a home class on nursing for lower east side of 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. She was the founder of the Henry Street Settlement. She never married, preferring to devote herself fully to her career. She authored two books relating to this work, the first being The House on Henry Street, first published in 1911, followed by Windows on Henry Street in -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
In 1907 Mary Adelaide Nutting joined the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University and became the world's first professor of nursing. Nutting led the Department of Nursing and Health at Teachers College from 1910 until her retirement in 1925. Mary Adelaide Nutting graduated from the first class of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1891. -
Margaret Sanger
She was an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). She was among the early influential contributors to Relationship counseling in the U.S.. -
Annie Goodrich
Annie Goodrich wanted to include the nursing profession to be taught in the university. She seen nursing to be equal. The reason for the plan for the Army school of nursing. She was dean of Army school -
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and founded the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, which soon became the Frontier Nursing Service. She also was known as Mary Carson Breckinridge. She started family care centers in the Appalachian mountains. She was known for helping many people with her hospitals. -
Ida V. Moffett
Set a standard for nursing. The Baptist Hospital nursing school is named after her, in Birmingham. First woman to become involved in the educational standard for licensing. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
She started a nursing program in the state of Alabama in 1948. She worked to make advancements in the nirosng profession for black nurses and the nursing professional in general. -
Hildegard Peplau
Dr. Peplau emphasized the nurse-client relationship as the foundation of nursing practice. At the time, her research and emphasis on the give-and-take of nurse-client relationships was seen by many as revolutionary. Peplau went on to form an interpersonal model emphasizing the need for a partnership between nurse and client as opposed to the client passively receiving treatment -
Dorothea Orem
Was a nursing theorist and founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory.
In simplest terms, this theory states that nurses have to supply care when the patients cannot provide care to themselves. -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "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". She was an American nurse, researcher, theorist and author. -
Martha Rogers
Martha Elizabeth Rogers was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author. Rogers is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. She established the Visiting Nurse Service of Phoenix, Arizona. She was a Professor and Head of the Division of Nursing at New York University, after which she was recognized as a Professor Emeritus in 1979. -
Jean Watson
Jean Watson graduated from the Lewis Gale School of Nursing in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1961. She continued her nursing studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, earning a B.S. in 1964, an M.S. in psychiatric and mental health nursing in 1966, and a Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling in 1973. Watson is well known for her Theory of Human/Transpersonal Caring.
