History - Lauren Furgason

  • Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix

    Boston school teacher who improved the living conditions of mentally ill patients. Visited jails and observed conditions of patients.
  • Mary Ann Bickerdyke

    Mary Ann Bickerdyke

    Best known as the most colorful and resourceful civil war nurse. Hospital administrator for union army.
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton

    worked during the American civil war to nurse soldiers and lobbied to have her own equipment. Rode in ambulance with soldiers.
  • Isabel Hampton Robb

    Isabel Hampton Robb

    Founder of Modern American Nursing Theory. Implementation of a grading policy for nursing students.
  • Linda Richards

    Linda Richards

    elected first President of American Society of Superintendent of Training Schools. Head of Philadelphia Visiting Nurses Society.
  • Lavinia Dock

    Lavinia Dock

    Helped found the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada.
  • Lillian Wald

    Lillian Wald

    Founder of the Henry Street Settlement. Regarded as the founder of visiting nursing. Seminal found of the NAACP.
  • Mary Adelaide Nutting

    Mary Adelaide Nutting

    World's first Professor of Nursing.
  • Mary Eliza Mahoney

    Mary Eliza Mahoney

    First black to study and work as a professionally trained nurse. Co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.
  • Annie Goodrich

    Annie Goodrich

    originator of the plan for the Army school of nursing. It was started in 1918 as a war measure, with Annie Goodrich as dean
  • Mary Brekinridge

    Mary Brekinridge

    Started family care centers in the Appalachian Mountains. Founded the Kentucky committee for mothers and babies.
  • Virginia Henderson

    Virginia Henderson

    advocate for the inclusion of psychiatric nursing in the curriculum.
  • Ida V Moffett

    led implementation which led to licensure for practical nurses. Helped the University of Alabama develop a nursing program.
  • Lillian Harvey

    Lillian Harvey

    Instrumental in establishing the first baccalaureate degree program in nursing at Alabama.
  • Hildegard Peplau

    Hildegard Peplau

    Six Nursing roles. Nursing theorist. Developmental stages of the nurse/client relationship.
  • Dorothea Orem

    Dorothea Orem

    published theory in 1959 – Guidelines for teaching nurses. Had her MSN.
  • Margaret Sanger

    Margaret Sanger

    Promoted the use of Birth Control
  • Madeleine Leninger

    Madeleine Leninger

    Published the Nursing theories.
  • Jean Watson

    Jean Watson

    Theory of human/transpersonal caring. Founded the Center for Human Caring in Denver, CO.
  • Martha Rogers

    Martha Rogers

    Professor and head of the Division of Nursing at NYU