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Dorothea Dix
Superintendent of the United States Army Nurses and advocate for the mentally ill. -
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Linda Richards
The first trained nurse. She later established various nurse-training programs in the United States as well as the first nurse-training program in Japan. -
Clara Barton
Founder of the American Red Cross -
Isabel Hampton Robb
The first President of the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, which would later become the American Nurses Association. -
Lavinia Dock
She played a major role as a contributing editor to the American Journal of Nursing, and she linked American nurses' goals to similar efforts in England. She also did most of the work for A History of Nursing. -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger set up the first birth control clinic in the United States. She became known as the nurse who promoted birth control as a means by which a woman could exercise control over their life and health. -
Annie Goodrich
Dean of first nursing program -
Mary Breckinridge
Regarded as the first to bring nurse-midwifery to the United States and founder of the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing -
Ida V. Moffett
She became the first woman involved in achieving school accreditation, in forming university- level degree programs for nursing, in closing substandard nursing schools, in organizing hospital peer groups, in licensing practical nursing, and in starting junior college-level degree programs for nurses. -
Hildegard Peplau
Nursing theorist whose seminal work "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" was published in 1952. Dr. Peplau emphasized the nurse-client "relationship" as the foundation of nursing practice. -
Dorothea Orem
Nursing theorist and founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. -
Martha Rogers
Edited a journal called Nursing Science and published her third book An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing -
Virginia Henderson
Recipient of the first Christianne Reimann Prize in June 1985 and an admired author for her unique definition for nursing. -
Madeleine Leininger
The founder of transcultural nursing -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
The first African-American to graduate from school of nursing as a registered nurse in the U.S.A. -
Jean Watson
She has been Distinguished Lecturer and Endowed Lecturer at universities throughout the United States and been around the world several times. Clinical nurses and academic programs throughout the world use her published works on the philosophy and theory of human caring and the art and science of caring in nursing.
