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Dix was an activist for the founding of mental asylums. She was also the Nursing Superintendent for the Union forces during the Civil War.
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Bickerdyke was an administrator for the Union soldiers in the Civil War. She was also was known as “Mother Bickerdkye” because of her great concern for the Union troops.
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Barton organized the American Red Cross. She also established an agency to distribute supplies to wounded soldiers during the Battle of Bull Run.
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Richards is the first professionally trained American nurse. She set up training programs in Japan and the United States, and she set up the system for individual medical records.
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Mahoney is the first African American to work as a professional nurse. She also co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.
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Dock was an advocate for entry and equality to healthcare. She was lobbied for the control of nursing practices. Dock also was an author of nursing textbooks.
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Nutting was an educational activist She was also the first professor of Nursing.
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Robb is the co-founder of the Modern American Nursing Theory. She is also the author of Nursing Ethics (1900) and Educational Standards for Nurses (1907).
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Goodrich was the first Dean and Professor at Yale School of Nursing in 1923. She was also an educational activist and held multiple international nursing positions
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Wald was a humanitarian, a social worker, and an activist. She was a co-founder of the NAACP. Wald taught nursing classes for women inside her home in New York.
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Sanger was an activist for birth control. She founded the American Birth Control League (1921).
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Breckinridge is the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. She also was a pioneer and a successful midwife.
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Henderson was the first full-time nursing instructor in Virginia. She also defined nursing as: “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.”
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Moffett is an Alabamian nurse. She also was a pioneer in establishing the first Nursing School in Alabama in 1955.
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Peplau established the nurse-client relationship in her book Interpersonal Relations in Nursing (1952).
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Orem is the founder of Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory (1959). This theory states that nurses have to supply help to patients, when patients are unable to help themselves.
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Rogers was and educational activist. She developed the Science of Unitary Human Beings, and she is also the author of An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing (1989).
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Harvey is the founder of the first baccalaureate nursing program in Alabama (1948). She also served as the Dean of Nursing at Tuskegee University.
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Leninger developed the concept of Trans-cultural nursing. She also discussed what it actually means to care for patients.
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Watson is the creator of the Theory of Human Caring (1979). She also coined the famous saying: “It’s the surgeon who saves a person’s life…it’s the nurse who helps the person live.
