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01/21/1848 | Dorothea Dix | The founder of 32 mental institutions in 1848. Dix was known as the most effective humanitarians in her era. |
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01/21/1861 | Mary Ann Bickerdyke | She was a big help to the Union soldiers during the Civil War. By the end of the war, sje had built 300 hospitals and helped in the aid of 19 battlefield. |
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01/21/1874 | Linda Richards | Richards was America's first trained nurse. She also established one the best nurse trainig prrgrams in the U.S. |
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01/21/1882 | Clara Barton | Founder of American Red Cross during the wartime. This concept led to the pass of the "American Amendment" in 1884. |
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01/21/1888 | Mary Eliza Mohoney | First Afrian-American registered nurse. SHe was also the co-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. |
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01/21/1889 | Isabel Hampton Robb | She was the first Superintendent at John Hopkins, Robbs was alos one of the founders of modern American Nusring Theory. |
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01/21/1893 | Lillian Wald | Founder of the Henry Street Settlement which began taught health and hygiene to immigrant women. She also was the founder of community nursing. |
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01/21/1907 | Lavinia Dock | The author of Hygiene and Morality. She also worte Volumes III and IV of History of Nursing in 1912. |
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01/21/1907 | Mary Aelaide Nutting | Sh was the first woman to hold the title professor at Columbia University. |
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01/21/1916 | Margaret Sanger | In 1916, she help establish the first birth-control clinic in American. In 1921, she found the American Birth Control League. |
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01/21/1923 | Annie Goodrich | She became the first Dean in College of Nursing at Yale University. She also established the United States Student Nurse Reserve (Army School of Nursing in 1918). |
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01/21/1929 | Mary Breckinridge | The founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. This team decreased the number deaths in children. |
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01/21/1930 | Virginia Henderson | Henderson defined nursing as being someone who help individuals to gain their independence of the patients and to assist to their health and recovery. |
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01/21/1941 | Ida V. Moffett | An Alabama native who was a great asset to Princeton Baptist Medial Center and the Baptist Health System, She guided over 4,000 nurses during her time at Princeton. |
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01/21/1948 | Hildegard Peplau | Used the concept of "psychodynamic nursing" to identify the realtionship between a nurse and patient. |
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01/21/1957 | Lillian Holland Harvey | Dean of Nursing at Tuskegee University. Under her supervision Tuskegee became the first college to offer a Bachelor's degree in nursing in Alabama. |
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01/21/1963 | Martha Rogers | Founder of Society of Rogerian Scholars. She wrote the book An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. |
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01/21/1971 | Dorothea Orem | A nurse therist who founded the Self-Care Deficit Theory. This theory announces that the nurses have to take care of patients who can not take care of themselves. |
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01/21/1974 | Madeleine Leininger | She is the founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. She also established the Transcultural Theory which talks about the concept of nursing, health, people, and the environment. |
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01/21/1975 | Jean Watson | Developer of Human Caring Theory. This theory was not only for the ones being cared for but also for the caregivers, |
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