Famous nurses

By dbutts

  • Dorothea Dix

    reformer of state prisons and hospitals

  • Linda Richards

    became the first trained nurse

  • Mary Eliza Mahoney

    First African American nurse

  • Clara Barton

    Aided troops in the Civil war and founded the American Red Cross in 1881

  • Lavinia Dock

    wrote the first drug manual for nurses, Materia Medica

  • Lillian Wald

    established the Henry St Settlement and coined the term "public health nurse"

  • Isabel Hampton Robb

    organized the ANA and the National League of Nursing Education

  • Mary Adelaide Nutting

    established the 8 hour work day for nurses

  • Margaret Sanger

    Advocate for birth control; called for legalization of contraceptives

  • Annie Goodrich

    established Army School of Nursing

  • Mary Breckenridge

    founded Frontier Nursing Service to provide care in Appalachians of KY

  • Dorothea Orem

    Self care theorist; founder of International OremSociety if 1993

  • Ida V Moffett

    first woman to achieve school accreditation for nursing programs

  • Virginia Henderson

    defined nursing in the Basic Principles of Nursing Care

  • Martha Rogers

    published Theoretical Basis of Nursing Science of Unitary Human Beings

  • Madeleine Leininger

    wrote Journal of Transcultural Nursing

  • Hildegard Peplau

    mother of psychiatric nursing and wrote Foundations of Nursing

  • Jean Watson

    theory of Transpersonal care