History - Lauren Furgason

Dorothea Dix

Jan 21, 1841

Boston school teacher who improved the living conditions of mentally ill patients. Visited jails and observed conditions of patients.

Mary Ann Bickerdyke

Jan 21, 1851

Best known as the most colorful and resourceful civil war nurse. Hospital administrator for union army.

Clara Barton

Jan 21, 1862

worked during the American civil war to nurse soldiers and lobbied to have her own equipment. Rode in ambulance with soldiers.

Isabel Hampton Robb

Jan 21, 1889

Founder of Modern American Nursing Theory. Implementation of a grading policy for nursing students.

Linda Richards

Jan 21, 1890

elected first President of American Society of Superintendent of Training Schools. Head of Philadelphia Visiting Nurses Society.

Lavinia Dock

Jan 21, 1893

Helped found the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada.

Lillian Wald

Jan 21, 1893

Founder of the Henry Street Settlement. Regarded as the founder of visiting nursing. Seminal found of the NAACP.

Mary Adelaide Nutting

Jan 21, 1907

World's first Professor of Nursing.

Mary Eliza Mahoney

Jan 21, 1908

First black to study and work as a professionally trained nurse. Co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.

Annie Goodrich

Jan 21, 1918

originator of the plan for the Army school of nursing. It was started in 1918 as a war measure, with Annie Goodrich as dean

Mary Brekinridge

Jan 21, 1925

Started family care centers in the Appalachian Mountains. Founded the Kentucky committee for mothers and babies.

Virginia Henderson

Jan 21, 1929

advocate for the inclusion of psychiatric nursing in the curriculum.

Ida V Moffett

Jan 21, 1945

led implementation which led to licensure for practical nurses. Helped the University of Alabama develop a nursing program.

Lillian Harvey

Jan 21, 1948

Instrumental in establishing the first baccalaureate degree program in nursing at Alabama.

Hildegard Peplau

Jan 21, 1952

Six Nursing roles. Nursing theorist. Developmental stages of the nurse/client relationship.

Dorothea Orem

Jan 21, 1959

published theory in 1959 – Guidelines for teaching nurses. Had her MSN.

Margaret Sanger

Jan 21, 1960

Promoted the use of Birth Control

Madeleine Leninger

Jan 21, 1961

Published the Nursing theories.

Jean Watson

Jan 21, 1979

Theory of human/transpersonal caring. Founded the Center for Human Caring in Denver, CO.

Martha Rogers

Jan 21, 1979

Professor and head of the Division of Nursing at NYU