Influential Women in Nursing

Timeline created by cwheeler

Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
11/24/1854	Clara Barton	Cared for soldiers in The Crimean War, founder of the Red Cross
11/24/1854	Dorthea Dix	Superintendent of the Union Army during the Civil War. Advocate for the mentally ill.
11/24/1879	Mary Elizabeth Mahoney	The first African-American Registered Nurse.
11/24/1891	Lilian Wald	Started The Henry Street Settlement in NYC, where she taught health and hygiene to immigrant women.
11/24/1894	Mary Adelaide Nutting	Principle and Superintendent of nurses at John Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing.
11/24/1896	Isabel Hampton Robb	Organized the Nurses' Association Alumnae, which later became The American Nurses Association in 1911 she was the first president of this organization.
11/24/1900	Linda Richards	Earlier 1900's beacme the First School Nurse.
11/24/1907	Livinia Dock	Co-Author of History of Nursing. Known for her writing as an advocate of legislation to control nursing pratice.
11/24/1916	Margaret Sanger	Opened the first birth control clinic.
11/24/1921	Virginia Henderson	Graduated from the Army of Nursing in this year, became famous for her definiton of nursing. "Assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery."
11/24/1922	Ida V. Moffet	The Ida V. Moffet School of Nursing was founded as a hospital diploma program.
11/24/1923	Annie Goodrich	First women Dean and Professor at Yale University.
11/24/1925	Mary Breckinridge	Established Frontier Nursing Services the staff started the American Association of Nurse- Midwives.
11/24/1945	Martha Rogers	Public health nurse, Director of education in Hartford Conneticut.
11/24/1948	Hidegard Peplau	Known as the mother of Psychiatric Nursing. In this year she completed her seminal work "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing"
11/24/1950	Madeleine Leninger	Developed Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality.
11/24/1958	Dorthea Orem	Upgraded practical nursing training at the Department of Health and Education, and Welfare. Known for her definition of nursing pratice and guidelines for developing cirricula for advocation of practical nursing.
11/24/1979	Jean Watson	In this year her theory of nursing was published, "The Philosophy and Science of Caring."