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Dorothea Dix: 1802-1887
-had passion for teaching; 1816, at age fifteen, she faced her first twenty pupils between the ages of six and eight
-Her efforts were an indirect inspiration for the building of many additional institutions for the mentally ill -
Clara Harlowe Barton: 1821-1912
most notable antebellum achievement was the establishment of a free public school in Bordentown, N.J.
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Linda Richards: 1841-1930
-the first student to enroll, was the first to graduate from the nursing program
-was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY
-Her portrait hangs in the lobby of the Canton-Potsdam Hospital, just a few miles from where America's first trained nurse was born -
Mary Eliza Mahoney: 1845-1926
-1st black nurse to graduate
-In 1896, Mahoney became one of the original members of a predominately white Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada
-In 1908 she was cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN)
-In 1936, the NACGN created an award in honor of Mahoney for women who contributed to racial integration in nursing -
Mary Adelaide Nutting: 1 Nov 1858-3 Oct 1948
-1889-1891 Entered the first class of the new Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland graduating in 1891.
-1891-1894 Head nurse in the hospital for two years and then assistant superintendent of nurses for a year.
-1894-1907 Became superintendent of nurses and principal of the school.
-1899-1907 An experimental program in hospital economics was established at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City where Nutti -
Lavinia Dock: 1858%u20131956
- was an outspoken advocate of Womens' Rights. Perhaps her courageous stand for Womens' Suffrage and Womens' Rights was her greatest contribution to nursing. She realized that if nursing was going to be the the profession that the early leaders envisioned, nurses would need the power and respect that only gender equality could bring. She is quoted in the NLN publication Open Mind (1996)
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Isabel Hampton Robb: 1860%u20131910
-was one of the founders of modern American nursing theory and one of the most important leaders in the history of nursing
-Organized nursing section at International Congress of Charities, Corrections and Philanthropy, World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This group birthed the Society of Superintendents of Training Schools, the first nursing organization (NLN)
-Wrote following books: Nursing: Its Principles and Practices (1894), Nursing Ethics (1900), Educational Standards for Nurses (1907) -
Annie Goodrich: 1866-1954
-President, American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses, 1905-1906
-President, International Council of Nurses, 1912-1915 (later appointed Honorary President)
-President, American Nurses' Association, 1916-1918
-First President, Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing, 1932-1936
-Fellow, American College of Hospital Administrators, 1948, Medal of National Institute of Social Science, Distinguished Service Medal of the United States, etc. -
Lillian Wald: 1867-1940
-was the founder of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service and of the Henry Street Settlement
-was also responsible for the instruction of nurses in the public schools and for insurance companies providing free visiting nurses for their policy holders -
Margaret Sanger: 1879-1966
-In 1912, Sanger gave up nursing work to dedicate herself to the distribution of birth control information
-In 1916, Sanger set up the first birth control clinic in the United States
-In 1927 Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in Geneva
-Sanger wrote many books and articles on birth control, marriage and an autobiography -
Mary Breckinridge: 1881-1965
-started the Frontier Nursing Service in the Appalachian region of Kentucky, in order to provide health care topoor people who lived in remote mountain settlements
-founded the first school in America that trained and certified midwifes
-Her efforts were instrumental in reducing the high infant and maternal mortality rates in pre World War II Appalachia -
Virginia Henderson: 1897-1996
-Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "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" -
Ida V. Moffett: 1905-1996
-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
-Half way through her career, the Baptist Hospital nursing school was named The Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing in recognition of her contributions to Alabama%u2019s healthcare profession -
Jean Watson: 1909-current
-is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fullbright Research Award in Sweden and five (5) Honorary Doctoral Degrees including 2 International Honorary Doctorate
-As author /co-author of over 12 books on caring, her latest books range from empirical measurements of caring, to new postmodern philosophies of caring and healing -
Hildegard Peplau: 1909-1999
-The only nurse to serve the ANA as executive director and later as president, she served two terms on the Board of the International Council of Nurses (ICN)
-In 1997, she received nursing's highest honor, the Christiane Reimann Prize, at the ICN Quadrennial Congress
-In 1996, the American Academy of Nursing honored Peplau as a "Living Legend," and, in 1998, the ANA inducted her into its Hall of Fame -
Martha Rogers: 1914-1994
-was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author
-is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing -In about 1963 Martha edited a journal called Nursing Science -
Dorothea Orem: 1914-2007
Some Publications:
-Orem, D. E. (1971). Nursing: Concept of practice. New York: McGraw-Hill
-Orem, D. E. (1979). Concept formalization in nursing: Process and product (2nd ed.). Boston: Little, Brown
-Orem, D. E. (1980). Nursing: Concepts of practice. (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill -
Madeleine Leininger: 1925-current
-was a pioneer nurse anthropologist
-She has written or edited 27 books and founded the Journal of Transcultural Nursing to support the research of the Transcultural Nursing Society, which she started in 1974
-is the foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement
