The History of Nursing

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/21/1840	Dorothea Dix	created the first generation of American mental asylums; The hospital, named in honor of Dorothea Dix, opened in 1856. Founded the first public mental hospital in Pennsylvania, the Harrisburg State Hospital, and later in establishing its library and reading room in 1853
01/21/1861	Mary Ann Bickerdyke	Union nurse in the American Civil War; organizer and chief of nursing, hospital, and welfare services for the western armies under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War.
01/21/1873	Linda Richards	The first professionally trained American nurse. Superintendent of the Boston Training School in 1874.
01/21/1881	Clara Barton	Found the America Red Cross
01/21/1889	Isabel Hampton Robb	one of the founders of modern American nursing theory and one of the most important leaders in the history of nursing. In 1889 she was appointed head of the new Johns Hopkins nursing school, where she continued to suggest reforms, participated in teaching, and published the text Nursing: Its Principles and Practice
01/21/1890	Lavinia Dock	she compiled the first, and long most important, manual of drugs for nurses, Materia Medica for Nurses
01/21/1895	Lillian Wald	Lillian D. Wald was the founder of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service and of the Henry Street Settlement. She was also responsible for the instruction of nurses in the public schools and for insurance companies providing free visiting nurses for their policy holders.
01/21/1908	Mary Eliza Mahoney	first African-American registered nurse in the U.S.A. In 1908 she was cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN).
01/21/1910	Mary Adelaide Nutting	raised the quality of higher education in nursing, hospital administration, and related fields.
01/21/1921	Margaret Sanger	founder of the American Birth Control League
01/21/1924	Annie Goodrich	She developed, and in 1924 became dean of, the first nursing program at Yale University
01/21/1926	Ida V. Moffett	first woman involved in achieving school accreditation, in forming university- level degree programs for nursing, in closing substandard nursing schools, in organizing hospital peer groups, in licensing practical nursing, and in starting junior college-level degree programs for nurses
01/21/1928	Mary Breckinridge	Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse who started the Frontier Nursing Service in the Appalachian region of Kentucky, in order to provide health care to poor people who lived in remote mountain settlements.
01/21/1930	Virgina Henderson	She wrote and/or edited several editions of the The Principles and Practice of Nursing. The International Council of Nurses presented her with the first Christianne Reimann Prize in June 1985
01/21/1948	Lillian Holland Harvey	Director of Nursing Service at John A. Andrew Hospital from 1944 to 1948, Dean of the school of Nursing, Tuskegee Institute (University) from 1948 until 1973. In 1948 the first baccalaureate of nursing program in the state of Alabama, was started under her leadership
01/21/1952	Martha Rogers	Developed the Science of Unitary Human Beings and wrote: An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing.
01/21/1952	Hildegard Peplau	a nursing theorist whose seminal work Interpersonal Relations in Nursing was published in 1952
01/21/1959	Dorothea Orem	founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory
01/21/1979	Jean Watson	founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
01/21/1980	Madeleine Leininger	Dr. Madeleine Leininger is the foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement.