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in June 1861 became the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses during the Civil War. She was in charge of all women nurses working in army hospitals.
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in 1872 she was the first student to enroll in the inaugural class of five nurses in the first American Nurse’s training school.
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Founded American red cross in 1881.
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She was one of the founders of modern American nursing theory . In 1889 she was appointed head of the new Johns Hopkins School of Nursing,
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she compiled the first, and most important, manual of drugs for nurses,Materia Medica for Nurses.
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She was the first African-American registered nurse in the U.S.A.
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Annie was dean of the first nursing program in the country at Yale University and president of the American Nurses’ Association
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Sanger set up the first birth control clinic in the United States
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She is the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service.
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in Birmingham in June 1928, she became operating room supervisor for Birmingham Baptist Hospital.s She returned to Birmingham in 1934 as head nurse of the second branch of Baptist Hospital, the Highland Avenue Baptist Hospital.
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Peplau was a nursing theorist whose seminal work Interpersonal Relations in Nursing was published in 1952 .
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Henderson is famous for her definition of nursing. It stated "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 (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge.
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She was a nursing theorist and founder of the Orem model of nursing,or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory.
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She is the foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement.
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Watson is well known for her Theory of Human/Transpersonal Caring .
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Rogers is known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing.
