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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
She was called %u201CMother%u201D Bickerdyke by the troops, she challenged the work of lazy corrupt medical officers. She served in 19 battles and the government launched a hospital shipped in her honor named, the SS Mary A. Bickerdyke. -
Florence Nightingale
She changed the form and direction of nursing and successfully made it a respectable field to work in. After the Crimean War she was struck with an illness and retreated to her bedroom where she spent the next 43 years conducting extensive involvement in health care from her secluded apartment. -
Dorothea Dix
She was commissioned as Superintendent of Women Nurses for All Military Hospitals during the Civil War when she was over 60 years old. Her authority was often challenged by the physicians. -
Linda Richards
She became known as America%u2019s first trained nurse when she graduated from The England Training School-- Boston. At Bellevue Linda created a system for charting and maintaining individual medical records for each patient. This was the first written reporting system for nurses which even the famous Nightingale System adopted. -
Lavinia Dock
She was an early graduate of one of the first trio of schools modeled after Nightingale model (Bellevue Training School, New York). She wrote the Textbook The Textbook on Materia Medica for Nurses. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
She was the first black nurse graduate, she graduated from The England Training School%u2014Boston. She worked as a nurse in private homes in a successful career that spanned 40 years. -
Clara Barton
She was instrumental in founding the American Red Cross in 1882. She was called the %u201Clittle lone lady in black silk%u201D. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
She opened the John Hopkins School of Nursing Program. She wrote the Textbook Nursing Ethics. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Entered the first class of nursing students at John Hopkins school of Nursing. She Graduated from John Hopkins School of Nursing%u2014Baltimore. -
Lillian Wald
She is widely regarded as the founder of visiting nursing in the United States and Canada. She was the founder of the Henry Street Settlement which later attracted the attention of Jacob Schiff, a prominent Jewish philanthropist who secretly provided her the means to help more effectively the "poor Russian Jews" whose care she made her life's mission. -
Margaret Sanger
American nurse Margaret Sanger%u2019s lifelong campaign for birth control made it possible for women to obtain information on contraception and reproduction. She opened the first American birth-control clinic, and later founded the organization that became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. -
Virginia Henderson
She was one of the first nurses to point out that nursing does not consist of merely following physician's orders. She has been described as the first lady of nursing. An accomplished author, avid researcher and a visionary, she is considered by many to be the most important nursing figure in the 20th century. -
Mary Breckinridge
She introduced the first modern comprehensive health care system in the United States and provided professional services for primary nursing care and midwifery. She also promoted the growth of district nursing centers and hospital facilities in southeastern Kentucky. -
Annie Goodrich
She was known as a crusader and diplomat among nurses, she played an active role in state, national, local, and international nursing affairs. She developed and became the dean of nursing at Yale University. -
Dorothea Orem
She was a nursing theorist and founder of the Orem Model of Nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. Her theory meant that a nurse was to provide care when a patient was unable to provide care for themselves. -
Hildegard Peplau
During WWII she was a member of the Army Nurse Corps and neuropsychiatric hospital in London, England. She was know as the %u201CMother of Psychiatric Nursing%u201D. She emphasized the nurse client relationship as the foundation of nursing. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
The first baccalaureate of nursing program in the state of Alabama, was started under her leadership. She used her expertise and talents to work in and through professional organizations to advance the cause of black nurses and the nursing profession. -
Ida V. Moffett
She was one of the most beloved and influential Alabamians in the health profession. She was a nurse for more than 70 years. -
Martha Rogers
She specialized in public health nursing, working in Michigan, Connecticut, and Arizona, where she established the Visiting Nurse Service of Phoenix, Arizona. She was appointed Head of the Division of Nursing at New York University. -
Madeleine Leininger
She was a pioneer nurse anthropologist and appointed dean of the University of Washington, School of Nursing. She is considered by some to be the "Margaret Mead of nursing" and is recognized worldwide as the founder of transcultural nursing, a program that she created at the School. -
Jean Watson
The foundation of her theory of nursing was published in nursing: %u201CThe philosophy and science of caring%u201D. This philosophy and value system provide a solid foundation for the science of caring.
