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Dorothea Dix
in 1861 she was appointed superintendent of army nurses for Civil War service.S he helped establish the first state hospital in 1881 -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
known as "Mother" Bickerdyke, due to her nursing of soldiers during the Civil War. -
Linda Richards
America's First Trained Nurse -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
first African-American registered nurse in the U.S.A -
Clara Barton
Was the first president of the Red Cross. Thanks to her efforts the Geneva Treaty was signed by the United States. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
She was the head of the nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore -
Lillian Wald
the founder of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service and of the Henry Street Settlement -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
In 1907 Mary Adelaide Nutting joined the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University and became the world's first professor of nursing -
Lavinia Dock
Led suffrage pickets from the National Women's Party Headquarters to the White House -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL) -
Mary Breckinridge
Established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) ito provide professional health care in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky, one of America's poorest and most isolated regions. -
Virginia Henderson
First full-time nursing instructor in Virginia -
Ida Vines Moffett
She was responsible for the first practical nurse program. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
The first baccalaureate of nursing program in the state of Alabama, was started under her leadership. -
Annie Goodrich
The first Dean of Yale School of Nursing -
Madeleine Leininger
The foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. -
Hildegard Peplau
A nursing theorist, published "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" -
Martha Rogers
Head of the Division of Nursing at New York University. -
Dorothea Orem
Founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory.
In simplest terms, this theory states that nurses have to supply care when the patients cannot provide care to themselves. -
Jean Watson
Founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
