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Dorothea Dix took on the duty of being a civilian woman in the army. In doing so, she became superintendent of the union of nurses during the civil war.
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Clara Barton was a nurse who felt America needed care for those in great need. She created the American Red Cross in 1873.
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Linda Richards took overr the floundering Boston Training School. Her administrative experience with Sister Helen helped her turn the program around and it became one of the best nurse training programs in the country.
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Mary Eliza Mahoney, who became the first African American to graduate from school of nursing in 1879. She is also in the national assosciation of graduate nurses who recognized her intergration in the nursing field.
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Hampton Robb started the American Nurses Alumane. The American Nurses Alumane was changed to the American Nurses Association in 1896 .
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In 1893, Dock, with the assistance of Mary Adelaide Nutting and Isabel Hampton Robb, founded the American Society of superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada, a precursor to the current National League for Nursing.
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Anne Goodrich became chief inspecting nurse for the United States Army. She also is credited with coming up with the plan for the Army School of Nursing.
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Margaret Sanger created the American Birth Control League. It is known as planned parenthood of america today.
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Mary Breckinridge was the nation's foremost pioneer in the development of American midwifery and the provision of care to the nation's rural areas as founder of the Frontier Nursing Service.
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Virginia Henderson defined nursing as "assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery"
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Dr. Madeleine Leininger is the foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. She remains as one of nursing's most prolific writers and the foremost authority throughout the world in the field of cultural care
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Hildegard Peplau the mother of psychiatric nursing – she is the only nurse to serve on the ANA as exceutive and later president
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Dorothea Orem developed the orem model of nursing. This theory states that nurses must provide care to those who cannot help themselves as they would for themselves
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Ida V. Moffett --- former president of the State Board of Nursing, she developed the first licensed practical nursing program in Alabama and also began the state's first two-year nursing program at Jefferson State Community College.
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Rogers is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings but her also her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing.
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Dr. Watson, Founder, created her international nonprofit Watson Caring Science Institute in 2007. She created it with the mission to restore the profound nature of caring-healing.
