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Clara Barton
She started an agency to take care soldiers and eventually served during some major wars.She established the America Red Cross. -
Dorothea Dix
She spent over 20 years to help improve the setup and treament for those who were mentally ill. She also helped with the union and was placed in charge over all the nurses who were serving in army hospitals at that time. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
During the American Civil War she served the Union soldiers.
She continued her nursing in the army while helping setup hospitals.After the war she helped many soldiers,along with nurses, get their pensions. -
Linda Richards
She was the first student and the first graduate. She took over Boston training school in 1874, and under her leadership it became one of the best in the country. In 1878 she created a training nursing school at Boston College Hospital. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
She worked in private nursing for most of her nursing career.
In 1896, Mahoney became a members of the white Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada and
1908 she was cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabel was appointed superintendent of nurses at the Illinois Training School for Nurses at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
She also created the first grading policy in a nursing school. In 1889, she went to Johns Hopkins Hospital where she became the head of the nursing school.She also wrote the text, Nursing: Its Principles and Practice, originally published in 1894 along with teaching. -
Lavinia Dock
she assembled the first manual of drugs for nurses, which was called the Materia Medica for Nurses (1890). She was editor for the American Journal of Nursing and she also worked on the books series of A History of Nursing. -
Annie Goodrich
Annie Goodrich graduated and worked at New York Hospital until 1893. She then left and went to New York Postgraduate Hospital to be the superintendent.
She was asked by the surgeon general of the army to become chief nurse inspector and evetually she worked her way up to becoming the dean. -
Lilian Wald
She began to serve the public health nursing with her friend in 1893. This led to the Henry Street Settlement and also her founding the Neighborhood Playhouse in 1915. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
In 1900,she was one of the founders of the American Journal of Nursing. She created a nursing library on the campus of Johns Hopkins and she was a member of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger is known for setting up the first birth control clinic in 1916.
Sanger also helped organize the first World Population Conference in Geneva in 1927.
Sanger also wrote many text on the subject of birth control. -
Virginia Henderson
She is known as the mother of modern nursing. She cared for the wounded in WWI.She wrote the book Principles and Practices of Nursing as wel as Basic Principles of NUrsing.
She was the first full-time nursing instructor in Virginia, she recieved the Virginia Historical Nurse Leader Award, and shes the member of the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame. -
Mary Breckinridge
In 1925, she provided health care through the Frontier Nursing Service.
The FNS began the American Association of Nurse-Midwives, and the first American school of midwifery in New York in 1932. -
Hildegard E. Peplau
She was part of the Army Nurse Corps during WWII.
She was the only nurse to serve the ANA as executive director and later as president,
She was founder of modern psychiatric nursing, an educator, worked with the mentally ill, and she was an author. -
Ida Moffett
She was the director of nursing in several places and organized the first Cadet Nursing Corps. She is accredited for the first nursing school in Alabama. -
Lillian Harvey
She was director of nursing at John A.Andrew Hospital and the dean of the school of nursing at the Tuskegee Institute.
In 1948 she headed the first baccalaureate of nursing program in the state of Alabama. -
Martha Rogers
At New York University, in 1954 she became the head of nursing.
She edited the Nursing Science journal in 1963.
She also wrote many texts on the topic of nursing. -
Dorothea Orem
She developed the Orem Model of Nursing. She worked for many years on this model. She focused on the patients primary care. -
Madeleine M. Leininger
In 1969 Leininger became the dean of nursing at the University of Washington. She is considered to be a founder of transcultural nursing and started the Transcultural Nursing Society in 1974. She has written/edited many texts including the Journal of Transcultural Nursing. -
Jean Watson
Jean founded the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and she a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She was the 1993 recipient of the National League for Nursing. She is also called the "Mother of Tartan Day".
