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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann Bickerdyke was a Union nurse in the Civil War. Her study of botanical medicine saved many lives during the civil war. Her support was essential in Civil war soldiers and nurses being pensioned. -
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix was the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses in the Civil War. She spent over 20 years working on improving the treatment for the mentally ill and improvement of prison conditions. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards was America's first trained nurse. She created a system for charting and storing individual's records which was the first system to date and was widely used after that. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American nurse to be registered in the U.S.A, She also cofounded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton was educated at home and began teaching nursing school at 15 years old. She served as a superintendent nurse in the Civil War. Her most notable achievement was founding the American Red Cross. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabel Hampton Robb was one of the founders of American nursing theory. Her idea of the grading policy for nursing students is still used today. She wrote many books for nursing education. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Mary Adelaide Nutting was a nurse who wrote the multi-volume "History of Nursing". In the aftermath of the Spanish American War she established the Army Nurse Corps. She was also the first nurse registered in the state of Maryland because of her efforts in passing the legislation. -
Lillian Wald
Lillian D. Wald was a nurse who was the founder of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service and of the Henry Street Settlement. She also responsible for nurses in public schools and insurance companies providing free visiting nurses for their policy holders. -
Annie Goodrich
Annie Goodrich is known as a pioneer of modern nursing and was the president of the American Nurses Association. She also established the Army School of Nursing in 1918. She became the dean of Yale's first nursing program and later developed it into Yale Graduate School of Nursing. -
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse who started the Frontier Nursing Service to provide care to people who lived in poor mountain areas. She also founded the first school that trained and certified midwives. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was a nurse and the founder of the American Birth Control League. She was a birth control activist and set up the first birth control clinic in the U.S. -
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau is a nursing theorist known as the "mother of psychiatric nursing", She created a model to improve client and nurse relationships that is still used today. Her work describing this model was called "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing". -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Lillian Holland Harvey was the Dean of Nursing at Tuskegee and through her service Tuskegee was the first university in Alabama to offer a bachelors degree in nursing. -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem was a nursing educator who created "The Self Care Theory" which later developed into "Orem's General Theory of Nursing" still used today. -
Ida V Moffett
Ida Moffett was a nurse who received an appointment to the U.S. Surgeon General's Consulting Group in 1961. This group led to the federal Nurses Training Act which allocated $287 for nursing education. -
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger is a nursing theorist and the founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. This discussed how to best attend to those is need of nursing care. -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia Henderson was an American Nurse that is famous for defining nursing. Her definition was "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge". -
Martha Rogers
Martha is an American nurse who is best for her model of human interaction and the nursing process. She also wrote "An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing" which is still used today. -
Jean Watson
Jean Watson is a nurse that founded the Center for Human Caring in Colorado as well as the Internation Caritas Consortium using the caring theory. She wrote and published many books on her theory and it is widely used today. -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Dock was a nurse who was the first to compile a manual of drugs for nurses. This book "Materia Medica for Nurses" was widely used and needed at the time. She also wrote books about nursing history.
