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Dorothea Dix
A mental health hospital was opened in Raleigh,NC and named in honor of Dix. She later became the Superintendent of Femal Nurses in the Civil War -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
She was a hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the Civil War (1861-1865). During the war, she became chief of nursing under General Ulysses Grant. -
Linda Richards
She was the first graduate from the program at New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1873. After graduating, Linda became the night shift supervisor at Bellevue Hospital. There she developed a system for charting and keeping patient’s records for each individual. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
She was the first African-American RN in USA. She worked at the New England Hospital for Women and Children and in 1878, was admitted to the nursing program. In 1908, she was a cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). Worked primarily as a private duty nurse for the next 30 years. -
Clara Barton
She established the American Red Cross and was the President of it for 22 years. She was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" because she tried very hard to help wounded soldiers. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
She graduated from Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1883. In 1889, she was appointed as head of John Hopkins School of Nursing. She later married and followed her husband’s practice in gynecology. -
Lavinia Dock
In 1890, she published the first and most important manual of drugs for nurses. She worked along Lillian Wald and retired from nursing around 50. She continued to educate people on social issues of the day. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
She entered into the first class at the new John Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1889. After graduating, she became head nurse for 2 years then superintendent of nurses in 1894. She also helped found the American Journal of Nursing in 1900. In 1910, she became a full-time professor at Columbia University. She was the first nurse to hold such a position and kept it until she retired in 1925. -
Lillian Wald
Wald strived to make the world a better place and society more just for people to live in. She published The House on Henry Street in 1915. The book contained the history of the Henry Street Settlement and the growth of it as well. It was to unite “people through their human and spiritual interests”. -
Margaret Sanger
She was known for striving to educate women in women’s health and especially the availability of birth control, which was a term that she took credit for creating. In 1916, she set up the first birth control clinic in the US. -
Annie Goodrich
Became the first Dean and Professor of Yale University School of Nursing -
Mary Breackinridge
In 1925, she founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) to provide professional health care in the Appalachian Mountains. After losing her husband and children, Breckinridge decided to devote her life to improving the health of women and children. -
Ida V. Moffett
Moffett was from Birmingham, AL and received her RN at Baptist Hospital School of Nursing. She later served as a private duty nurse at Baptist Hospital. She then continued on to study at University of Iowa Hospital in orthopedic nursing. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Dr. Harvey was the Dean for the School of Nursing at Tuskegee University from 1948-1972. She was a strong believer in acquiring an education. -
Hildegard Peplau
Her book Interpersonal Relations to Nursing was published in 1952. She was also very familiar with psychiatric cases and mental-ill patients. -
Virginia Henderson
She believed that nursing was “assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery.” She was one of the first nurses to point out that nurses do not just follow doctor’s orders. -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem developed the Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory, stating that nurses are to provide care for patients who can't do so themselves. -
Madeleine Leininger
Dr. Leininger was appointed the Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Washington in 1969. After that she did some time over in New Guinea. After this stay, she stated that nurses need to know people’s culture and background in order to provide for them to the best of their ability. She is known for creating the Transcultural Nursing movement, which she started in 1974. -
Jean Watson
Her theory of human caring not only shows how relations should work towards the patient who is being cared for but also for the caregiver. Her theory has been accepted by many practices. She began her theory in 1975. -
Martha Rogers
She developed the science of unitary human beings (1984). It is concerned with the nature and direction of human development. In 1970, she published her well known book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing.
