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Dorothea Dix
Dix created the first generation of American mental asylum, during the Civil War. By the late 1840s, Dix was formulating a creative and ambitious plan to assure proper facilities and treatment for the insane poor in the long term. She was also the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Bickerdyke was a hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the American Civil War. During the war, her duty was the cheif of nursing. -
Clara Barton
She is remembered for organizing the American Red Cross. Barton expanded the original concept of the Red Cross to include assisting in any great national disaster, this service brought the United States the "Good Samaritan of Nations" label. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards is known as America's First Trained Nurse. She established the first nurse training program in Japan, and more in the U.S. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
She was the first African American registered nurse in the U.S, She was a private duty nurse for thirty years. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Robb set standards for nursing education. She was the head of many nursing programs, and one of the founders of American Journal of Nursing. One of the most notable achievements she had was implementing the grading policy for nursing. -
Lavinia Dock
Dock compiled the first manual of drugs for nurses. She was one of the editors to the American Journal of Nursing. Strove to improve the health of the poor and and the profession of nursing through her teaching. -
Lillian Wald
Wald was a founder of the American community nursing. She wrote two books that were related to the Henry Street Settlement, which she founded. She is regarded to the founder of home health care. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Mary Adelaide Nutting became the world's first professor of nursing at the Teacher's College at Columbia University in New York City. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was the founder of the American Birth Control League. She was put in jail for her actions but still strove to find a way to establish the birth control. -
Annie Goodrich
Goodrich was an active in nursing affairs. She was the president of the American Nurses Association, president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing, New York State Inspector for Training Schools, director of nursing service at Henry Street Settlement, professor of nursing at Teacher's College, Columbia University, and dean of the Army School of Nursing. In 1924 became dean of the first nursing program at Yale University. -
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge was the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. She helped many people with their hospitals. -
Virginia Henderson
Henderson was a graduate of the Army School of Nursing. She had a famous definition of nursing, "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. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible". -
Ida V. Moffett
Moffett had many successful efforts to bring professionalism and advanced academic training to the field of nursing. She was the chair of Alabama State Board of Nurses' Examiners and Registration. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Dr. Lillian Harvey was Dean of the Tuskegee (Institute) University School of Nursing for almost three decades. It was the first school to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing in the state of Al. -
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau was a nursing theorist. Theory of give and take, nurse-client relationship. She developed roles and phases for the nurse and client to go through together. -
Dorothea Orem
Developed the Orem Model of Nursing, also known as the 'Self Care' Model of Nursing. -
Martha Rogers
Martha Rogers developed the Science of Unitary Human Beings. She wrote a book titled, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. -
Madeleine Leininger
Dr. Leininger is the foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. She has written or edited 27 books containing to the movement she founded. -
Jean Watson
Founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado. She is the chair in Caring Science at the university of Colorado.
