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Clara Barton
She established a free public school in Bordentown, N.J. She is also remembered as the founder of the American Red Cross. -
Dorothea Dix
She wanted to get help for the insane poor and did so around 1841. An insane hospital was named after her in 1856. -
Linda Richards
She was the first professionally trained American nurse. She established nursing training programs in the U.S and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients. 1877-1885. -
Isabel Adams Hamptons
She was the Superintendent of Nurses and Principal of the Training School. 1889-1894. -
Lavinia Dock
After serving as a visiting nurse to the poor she wrote the first manual or drugs for nurses. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
She was the first black woman to work as a trained nurse in the U.S. She co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. -
Margaret Sanger
She is known for advocating birth control and women’s health. -
Annie Goodrich
The first Dean of Yale School of Nursing. -
Mary Breckinridge
She founded the Frontier Nursing Services. -
Ida V. Moffett
She attended the first nationwide conference of nursing organizations where she became committed to the concept that nurses should be educated in a university setting. She was appointed to the Alabama State Board of Nurses’ Examiners and Registration. -
Hildegard Peplau
She was known as the Mother of Psychiatric nursing. She was the only nurse to serve on the ANA as executive director and later as president. She published Interpersonal Relations in Nursing in 1952. -
Madeleine Leninger
She founded the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. -
Martha Rogers
She wrote “The Science of unitary Man”. This was a new way of thinking for nurses about human beings and how they interact with each other and the environment around them. -
Virginia Henderson
She graduated from the Army School of Nursing. She was presented with the first Christianne Reimann Prize by the International Council of Nurses. -
Dorothea Orem
She was a nursing theorist. She did “Orem’s Model of nursing” which is a self care deficit nursing theory -
Jean Watson
She founded an international nonprofit Watson Caring Science Institute. It supports the current health care system.
