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Founder of the Henry Street Settlement and the founder of community nursing
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Helped establish psychiatric institutions in eleven different states
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She was the first trained nurse.
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Founder of the American Red Cross
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Started the Nurses Associated Alumni, which today is known as the American Nursing Association
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The first African American Registered Nurse
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First Head of Nursing program at Columbia University
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First to start the promotion of contraceptives for women
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Co authored the first two volumes of the History of Nursing and completely authored the third and fourth volumes
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Dean of the 1st nursing program at Yale University. Nurses know her as the crusader and diplomat of nursing.
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Formed the Committee of Mothers and Babies which is later became the Frontier Nursing Service
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The “Mother of Psychiatric Nursing” Founded the first psychiatric nursing program.
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Started the first BSN program in Alabama at Tuskegee University
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Known as the “Mother” to the Union Soldiers during the Civil War
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Founder of the first accredited nursing program
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Founded the Orem Model of Nursing, also known as the Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory.
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Helped defined a nurse as being someone who helps individuals gain independence of the patients and to assist to their health and recovery
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Founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing Movement
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Founder of the Society of Rogerian Scholars. Author of the book An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing
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Developer of the Human Caring Theory.
