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Liilian Wald
she founded the Henry Street Settlement -
Dorothea Dix
She helped establish mental hospitals in eleven different states . she also founded hospitals in Russia , Turkey, France, and Scotland -
Linda Richards
She was the first trained nurse -
Clara Barton
She founded the American Red Cross and served as its director until her death -
Isabel Hampton Robb
She grouped together the Nurses Associated Alumni which was changed in 1911 to the American Nursing Association -
Eliza Manhoney
She was the first African American registered nurse -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
She was the first nurse to be head of the nursing department at Columbia University -
Margaret Sanger
She was started the promotion of birth control to women -
Lavinia Dock
She completed the third and fourth volumes on the History of Nursing alone and co authored the first two -
Annie Goodrich
She became the dean of the first nursing program at Yale university. She is known as a crusader and diplomat among other nurses. -
Mary Breckinridge
She formed the Committee of Mothers and Babies which evolved into the Frontier Nursing Service -
Hildegard Peplau
she is the " Mother of Psychology Nursing". she founded the first psychology nursing program -
Lillian Harvey
she initiated the first BSN program in Alabama at the Tuskegee University -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
She was known as the "Mother" to the union soilders from the Civil War -
Ida V. Moffett
She founded the first accrediated nursing college -
Dorothea Orem
She is the founder of the Orem Model of Nursing or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. -
Virginia Henderson
She helped define and clear the delineate between nursing and medicine -
Madeleine Leininger
She was the founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement -
Martha Rogers
She presented her evolutionary model with the publication of An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. This view presented a drastic but attractive way of viewing human interaction and the nursing process -
Jean Watson
She founded the theory called "the Philosophy and Science of Caring", which provided a solid foundation for the science of caring
