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Dorothea Dix
Dorthea Dix served as Superintendent of the United States Army Nurses during the Civil War. Afterwards she returned to her previous occupation of caring for the mentally ill. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Bickerdyke was known to the Union soldiers as Mother Bickerdyke. She cared for wounded soldiers during the Civil War and pushed for financial assistance of veterans. -
Linda Richards
Richards was America's first trained nurse. She was the first graduate at the New England Hospital for Women and Children nursing program. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mahoney became the first African American graduate nurse. -
Clara Barton
The American Red Cross was created by Clara Barton in 1881 and she was director until her death. -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia produced the Materia Medica for Nurses, which was the first manual of drugs for nurses. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
She founded the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses in 1893. It became known as the National League of Nursing Education in 1912. -
Lillian Wald
Wald created Visiting Nurses in New York after she worked in the Lower East Side and saw the need for reform. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Nutting became the world's first professor of nursing at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York City. -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger gave up her nursing career to teach about birth control. She founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in 1916. -
Virginia Henderson
Henderson's definition of nursing is what she is known for. She was one of the first nurses to prove that nursing wasn't made up of just following physician's orders. -
Annie Goodrich
In 1924, Annie Goodrich became the dean of Yale's very first nursing program. -
Mary Breckinridge
Breckinridge established the Frontier Nursing Service which aided in the decrease of infant mortality. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida Moffett organized Alabama's first unit of the Cadet Nurse Corps and supervised construction of another building for the School of Nursing. -
Hildegard Peplau
Also known as "the mother of psychiatric nursing." Peplau developed the Advanced Psychiatric Nursing program at Teacher's College between 1948 and 1952. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
At Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Harvey initiated the first baccalaureate degree in the nursing program. -
Dorothea Orem
She was the founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. This theory said that nurses had to care for patients who were not able to care for themselves. -
Madeleine Leininger
Leininger is known worldwide as the founder of transcultural nursing because of her logic that knowledge of the background and culture of a patient plays a major role in their treatment. -
Martha Rogers
Rogers developed the Science of Unitary Human Beings. -
Jean Watson
Developed the Theory of Human Caring and is the founder of the Center for Human Caring in Colorado.
