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she founded the Henry Street Settlement
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She helped establish mental hospitals in eleven different states . she also founded hospitals in Russia , Turkey, France, and Scotland
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She was the first trained nurse
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She founded the American Red Cross and served as its director until her death
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She grouped together the Nurses Associated Alumni which was changed in 1911 to the American Nursing Association
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She was the first African American registered nurse
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She was the first nurse to be head of the nursing department at Columbia University
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She was started the promotion of birth control to women
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She completed the third and fourth volumes on the History of Nursing alone and co authored the first two
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She became the dean of the first nursing program at Yale university. She is known as a crusader and diplomat among other nurses.
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She formed the Committee of Mothers and Babies which evolved into the Frontier Nursing Service
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she is the " Mother of Psychology Nursing". she founded the first psychology nursing program
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she initiated the first BSN program in Alabama at the Tuskegee University
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She was known as the "Mother" to the union soilders from the Civil War
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She founded the first accrediated nursing college
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She is the founder of the Orem Model of Nursing or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory.
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She helped define and clear the delineate between nursing and medicine
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She was the founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement
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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
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She founded the theory called "the Philosophy and Science of Caring", which provided a solid foundation for the science of caring
