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Dorothea Dix
During the Civil War, Dix was appointed Superintendent of Union Army Nurses -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
She was also known as Mother Bickerdyke, was a hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the American Civil War -
Linda Richards
America's first trained nurse. Linda traveled to England to study where she trained two months at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, the hospital Florence Nightingale had established in 1860 -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Finishing a sixteen-month program on August 1, 1879, Mahoney was among the three graduates out of the forty students who began the program and the only African American awarded a diploma. Upon her graduation Mary Mahoney became the first African American graduate nurse. -
Clara Barton
Barton established the American Red Cross -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Robb was one of the founders of modern American nursing theory and one of the most important leaders in the history of nursing.
She graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1883. After gaining experience working as a nurse in Rome she traveled back to the United States to take a position as superintendent of nursing at the Cook County Hospital nursing school in Chicago -
Lillian Wald
was a nurse, social worker, public health official, teacher, author, editor, publisher, women's rights activist, and the founder of American community nursing. -
Annie Goodrich
• Superintendent of Nursing, New York Post-Graduate Hospital, 1893-1900
• Superintendent of Nursing, St. Luke's Hospital, 1900-1902
• Superintendent of Nurses, New York Hospital, 1902-1907 -
Lavinia Dock
she chose to train as a nurse at New York City's Bellevue Hospital), and after serving as a visiting nurse among the poor, she compiled the first, and long most important, manual of drugs for nurses
she campaigned for legislation to allow nurses rather than physicians to control their profession -
Margaret Sanger
She was an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League. -
Mary Breckenridge
Established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in 1925 to provide professional health care in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. -
Ida V. Moffett
she became operating room supervisor for Birmingham Baptist Hospital, serving until her marriage to Howard D. Moffett on June 29,1929. She returned to Birmingham in 1934 as head nurse of the second branch of Baptist Hospital, the Highland Avenue Baptist Hospital. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Named honorary president of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation -
Lillain Holland Harvey
Under her leadership and untiring efforts, the School of Nursing at Tuskegee became the first to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing in the state of Alabama. Dr. Harvey was credited with being a crusader for unrestricted professional recognition across the state and nation -
Hildegard Peplau
During World War II, Hildegard Peplau was a member of the Army Nurse Corps and worked in a neuropsychiatric hospital in London, England. She also did work at Bellevue and Chestnut Lodge Psychiatric Facilities -
Jean Watson
Dr. Watson has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and psychiatric-mental health nursing and holds her PhD in educational
She is the recipient of several national awards, including The Fetzer Institute Norman Cousins Award, in recognition of her commitment to developing; maintaining and exemplifying relationship-centered care practices -
Martha Rogers
Rogers was appointed Head of the Division of Nursing at New York University in 1954. In about 1963 Martha edited a journal called Nursing Science. It was during that time that Rogers was beginning to formulate ideas about the publication of her third book An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing
Rogers officially retired as Professor and Head of the Division of Nursing in 1975 after 21 years of service. In 1979 she became Professor Emeritus -
Dorothea Orem
Orem was a nursing theorist and 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. -
Virginia Henderson
The International Council of Nurses presented her with the first Christianne Reimann Prize in June 1985, aged 87. She was also the...
• First full-time nursing instructor in Virginia
• Recipient of the Virginia Historical Nurse Leader Award
• Member of the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame -
Madeleine Leininger
Most importantly, she developed the concept of transcultural nursing, bringing the role of cultural factors in nursing practice into the discussion of how to best attend to those in need of nursing care. Her main contribution to nursing is her Culture Care Diversity and Universality theory.
