timeline of nurses

By N Harris

  • Linda Richards

    She was the first trained nurse.

  • Mary Eliza Mohoney

    first black nurse

  • Dorothea Dix

    establised the first state mental hospotal in new jersey, and later established 32 more hospitals.

  • Clara Barton

    founded the American Red Cross.

  • Mary Adelaide Nutting

    was enrolled in the first class to graduate from Johns Hospkins School of Nursing.

  • Lillian Wald

    founded henry street settlement.

  • Isabel Hampton Robb

    helped organized a group called Nurses Association Alumnae, but this group was later renamed the American Nurses Association.

  • Lavinia Dock

    wrote Materia Medica for Nurses, and this was for students nurses having problems studying drugs.

  • Maragaret Sanger

    introduced the birth control and getting it legalized.

  • Annie Goodrich

    First woman Dean at Yale University.

  • Mary Breckinridge

    Established Froniter Nursing Service.

  • Martha Rogers

    editied journals called Nursing Science.

  • Ida Moffett

    graduated from Birmingham Baptist Hospital School of Nursing. Also Samford Unversity Nursing School is named after her.

  • Hildegard Peplau

    known as mother of psychiatric nursing. She also wrote the interpersonal model for nurses.

  • Dorothea Orem

    Founder of Orem Model of Nursing.

  • Virginia Henderson

    "mother of moderan nurses" and also she wrote several editions of The Principles and Practice of Nursing.

  • Medeline Leininger

    founded transcultural nurising society.

  • Jean Watson

    Worte Theory of Human Care for nurses.