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Dorthea Lynde Dix
Dorthea Dix was born April 4, 1802. She dealt with major health issues through the 1830's. In 1836 she traveled to Liverpool, England where she came into contact with the Quaker beliefs of social reform and the need of government intervention and protection of the mentally ill. After returning to the states she lobbied in Illinois for the first state run mental hospital, and then moved on to lobby in North Carolina for the first mental hospital there in 1848. It finally opened in 1856. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
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Mary Bickerdyke (1817-1901) Followed the Union troops through the cival war and established over 300 hospitals for the troops. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton was born in 1821 in North Oxford, MA. Ms. Barton began as a teacher and patent office clerk. At the start of the cival war in 1861 she started nursing for the Union troops. By 1864 she was promoted to superintendent of all union nurses. Her real contribution to nursing came in the 1870's when she helped establish the American Red Cross. She lived on till 1912. -
Linda Richards
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Linda Richards was the first enrollee of 5 students attending the first professional school of nursing in 1872 at the New England Hospital of Women and Children. She contributed by assiting the establishment and upgrades of numerous other nursing schools. Later she designed the first way of keeping medical records. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
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Ms. Mahoney was the first African-American to work professionaly as a nurse in1879. She received her diploma in 1905. She also helped establish the National Assn. of Colored Graduate Nurses -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabel Hampton Robb
Mrs. Robb was one of the founders of nursing theory. Her publication of "Nursing: It's Principles and Practice" in 1889. She also helped establish a way of grading nursing students for competancy while working at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. She also was one of the founder in the publication of the American Journal of Nursing. (1860-1910) -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Dock(1858-1956) While working at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1890 she wrote and published one of the first nursing texts. "Materia Medica for Nurses", a text on drugs to help student nurses. In 1907 she co-authored the first 2 volumes on nursing history with Mrs. Nutting. 1912 she authored the 3rd and 4th volumes alone. -
Lillian Wald
Lillian Wald
Lillian Wald(1867-1940) Established the Henry Street settlement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1893 eventually employing 27 nurses to help care for the sick immigrants. Due to the lynchings of African- Americans she was also one of the founders of the NAACP. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
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Mary Nutting received her doctorate and became the first professor of nursing at Columbia Unversity in New York City. She also co-authored the first 2 volumes of nurse history. -
Margaret Sanger
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Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) Born 6th of a family of eleven children, her mother had a total of 18 pregnancies. due to this and other factors she established the first birth control clinic in New York City. -
Annie Goodrich
Annie Goodrich was born Feb. 6, 1866 in New Brunswick, NJ. Her education as an RN was at New York hospital in 1892. Ms. Goodrich's primary contributions to nursing was the organization of the Army School of Nursing from 1918-19 and being the first dean and professor at the Yale University School of Nursing. Ms. Goodrich passed away on Dec. 31, 1954 at the age of 87. -
Mary Breckinridge
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Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) She studied in mid-wifing in England and established the first American Nurse mid-wife program in Kentucky for rural women. -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia Henderson (1897-1996) Known as the "mother of nursing" her biggest contribution was creating the basic nursing curriculum for the National League for Nursing -
Ida Vine Moffett
Ida Moffett
Ida Moffett 1905-1996. Her main contributions to nursing came in 1943 with the organization of the Cadet Nurse Corp in Alabama due to a shortage of nurses. With her belief that nursing should be a 4 year university curriculum she helped establish the 4 year nursing program at Tuskegee University in 1946. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
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In 1948, Dr. Harvey had recieved her masters degree for nurseing. She then established the first bacchalaureate degree available in the state of Alabama at Tuskegee Unversity. -
Dr. Hildegard Peplau Ed.D
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Dr. Peplau's real contribution to nursing came with the publication of "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" in 1952. Her theory was based on the fact that client-nurse should be acting equally on the patients health rather than patient just passively accepting care given by the nurse. It continues in theory that the nurse needs to also interact with the doctors rather than passively transmiting orders from doctor to patient. -
Dr. Dorthea E. Orem
Dr. Orem lived from 1914 till June 6, 2007. She recieved her training as an RN in 1939 in Maryland. Her main contribution was the publication of "Guidelines for Developing Curricula for the Education of Practical Nurses." This included her "Orem Model of Nursing" theory that it is best to encourage patients to be as independent as possible, having the nurse only do what the patient is incapable of. She published in 1959 -
Martha Elizabeth Rogers
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Mrs. Rogers contribution to nursing was the publication in 1970 of "An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing" -
Dr. Jean Watson
Dr. Jean Watson
Dr. Watson published her "Theory of Human Caring" in 1979. her main theory was based on altruism and that the client, not the nurse or doctor, is the one in charge. -
Madeleine Leininger
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Born in 1925, Mrs. Leininger was a theory nurse. The main theory that she developed was the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory. With the mulit-culturalism and international connections, she believed nurses should be aware of the cultural differences viewed by diverse peoples.
