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Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix at the age of 39 decided to be a nurse. She then began protesting for the mentally ill. She also wanted prisoners to have better enviroments. She helped to establish many more hospitals that could treat the mentally ill. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann Bickerdyke was a hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the American Civil War. She became the most well known Civil War nurse. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards was the first trained nurse in America. She also developed the idea of keeping individual medical records for each patient. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton was the president of the Red Cross for 22 years. She helped with many natural disasters with this program. Before she joined the Red Cross she helped the woulded soilders during World War One. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabel Hampton Robb graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1883. One of her best contributions to the system of nursing education was the implementation of a grading policy for nursing students. The students would have to prove there knowledge to pass the classes. -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Dock composed the first manual of drugs for nurses, Materia Medica for Nurses. She tried to improve health care for the poor, and she tried to teach future nurses what they needed to know. -
Annie Goodrich
Annie Warburton Goodrich got her education at New York Hospital and received her R.N. in 1892. She then was awarded several honorary degrees. She received a Doctor of Science, Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Law in the following years. -
Lillain Wald
Lillain Wald was the cofounder and leader of the Henry Street Settlement on Manhattan's Lower East Side. This group provided visiting nurse services to the less privelged. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
She helped found the American Journal of Nursing in 1900 Then in 1944 the National League for Nursing Education created the Mary Adelaide Nutting Medal in her honor and awarded the first one to her. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American registered nurse. she was the cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger gave up nursing to proceed in the distribution of birth control information. She is credited with coming up with the name birth control, after she saw all the unplanned pregnancies in the slums. -
Virginia Henderson
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 also the first full-time nursing instructor in Virginia. -
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge established the Frontier Nursing Service. It was to provide professional health care in the Applachain Mountians. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida V. Moffett attended the first nationwide conference of nursing organizations where she became committed to the concept that nurses should be educated in a university setting. Moffett then helped gain state accreditation for Alabama's first four-year collegiate nursing program, which was located at Tuskegee University, and worked to foster equal treatment in the profession for African American nurses. -
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau said that in being a good nurse a relationship between the nurse and the patient must be achieved. Her concept had four overlapping phases: orientation, identification, exploitation and resolution. -
Martha Rogers
Martha E. Rogers' created the Science of Unitary Human Beings (SUHB) theory. That presented a new way to look at human interaction with nursing process. -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem was the 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. -
Madeleine Leininger
Madeline Leininger is considered founder of transcultural nursing, a program that she created at the University of Washington in 1974. She said it is important to know a patients background and culture to give care to them. -
Jean Watson
Jean Watson took the Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science, the nation’s first endowed chair in Caring Science, based at the University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing. She is also the founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Lillian Holland Harvey was the Dean of the School of Nursing at Tuskegee Institute. The program was very beneficial with her there.
