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Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix visited the Cambridge House of Corrections to teach sunday class to women. The scenes that she saw led her to demand reforms fo the mentally ill. In 1845 Dix wrote Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States. Dix was also appointed as the superindentent of nurses for the union army in 1861. During this this time she recruited over 2,000 women to serve. -
Clara Barton
In April 1862, Clara Barton established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies to wounded soldiers. In 1869, her doctors recommended a restful trip to Europe. In 1870, while she was overseas, she became involved with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its humanitarian work during the Franco-Prussian War. Clara Barton is most famous for establishing the American Red Cross. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards is know as America's First Professionaly Trained Nurse. This title was givien to her because she graduated first from New England Hospital for Women and Children. While serving as the night supervisor at New York's Bellevue Hospital she created a system for keeping individual records for each patient. This system was even adopted by Florence Nightingale. In 1874 was named the Superintendent for the Boston Training School for nurses. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney is know for being the first African American professional nurse. She graduated from nursing school 1879 from the training program at New England Hospital. She was one of four to graduate from a class of forty. In 1896, Mahoney became one of the first African-American members of the predominantly white American Nurses Association. -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Dock graduated from the nurse training course at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. She spent considerable time as a visiting nurse. In 1890 compiled the first manual of drugs for nurses Materia Medica for Nurses. From 1896 -1915 she was a member of the New York City Nurses Settlement where she worked closely with Lillian Wald to improve health conditions of the poor. She played a major role as a contributing editor to the American Journal of Nursing. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabel Hampton Robb was the Superintendent at Illinois Training School. In 1889, she became the first superintendent at Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. Other accomplishments include terms as president of American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses (now known as National League for Nursing), and of the organization that became the American Nurses Association. She was also one of the founders of the American Journal of Nursing. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
In 1891, Nutting graduated from the first class of Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. Later that year she became the head nurse at the hospital. In 1934 she was named the honorary president of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation for her notable contributions to nursing and nursing education. -
Annie Warburton Goodrich
Annie Goodrich trained at New York Hospital and reciedved her RN in 1892. She is most recognized as the Dean of Nursing at Yale University where she served from 1923-1934. "Miss Goodrich was never maternalistic. She always treated us like grown people and she made us feel that nursing could, if we chose, change the world." Virginia Henderson. -
Lillian Wald
In 1893, Lillian Wald coined the phrase "Public Health Nurse." Lillian Wald is most noted for the Establishment of the Henry Street Settlement in 1893 -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sange practiced nursing until 1912 when she decided to devote her life to birth control. -
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge established the Frontier Nursing Service which provided the first health care to the Appalacian Mountain region of Kentucky. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida Moffett Spent her life establishing and maintaining the standards of nurse education. She became and advocate for university based nursing programs and helped close many substandard schools. -
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau graduated from Pennsylvania Hospital School of Nursing in 1931. She is most noted for her work in the Army Nurse Corps during WWII. -
Martha Rogers
Marta Rogers started her career in 1936 when she received her diploma from Knoxville General Hospital. Rogers was appointed Head of the Division of Nursing at New York University in 1954. In 1963 she wrote n Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. -
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger is best known for her work in nursing anthropology. In the 1960's she took a trip to New Guinea where she studied the way other cultures cared for one another. She established the discipline of Transcultural Nursing. -
Virginia Henderson
In 1966 Virginia Henderson defined nursing as "assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery in her book defining her beliefs: The nature of nursing: A definition and its implications for practice, research, and education. -
Jean Watson
In 1979, Jean watson published the Philosophy and Science of Caring. This outlined her theory of Human/ Transpersonal Caring. -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem is best known for her Self-Care Deficit Theory which was published in 1991.
