Historical Nurses

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  • Dorothea Dix

    *Created the first generation of American mental asylums
  • Mary Ann Bickerdyke

    *Built 300 hospitals and aided the wounded on 19 battlefields
    *Was the best known Civil War nurse
  • Clara Barton

    *She established an agency to get and give out supplies to wounded soldiers.
    *Founded the American Red Cross
  • Linda Richards

    *First to graudate from a nursing program
    *Created the written reporting system for nurses
  • Mary Eliza Mahoney

    *First Africacn-American registered nurse
    *Cofounded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
  • Isabella Hamptom Robb

    • Founder of the modern American nursing theory
    • Created the grading policy for nursing students
  • Lavinia Dock

    *Completed the ateria Medica for Nurses
    * Did most of the work for A History of Nursing
  • Lillian Wald

    *Founded the Henry Street Settlement
    * Regarded as the founder of visiting nurses
  • Mary Adelaide Nutting

    *Created a new three-year curriculum
    * Helped found the American Journal of Nursing
  • Margaret Sanger

    *Founder of the American Birth Control League
    *Established the Clinical Research Bureau
    *Opened the first legal birth control clinic
  • Annie Goodrich

    *Established the Army School of Nursing.
    *Was the first dean of the Yale University School of Nursing.
  • Virginia Henderson

    *Defined nursing
    *First nurse to say that nursing is more than just following physician's orders
  • Mry Breckinridge

    *Founded the Frontier Nursing Service
    *Started family care centers in the Appalachian mountains
  • Lillian Holland Harvey

    *Established the first baccalaureate of nursing program in Alabama
  • Hildegard Peplau

    • Created the interpersonal relations model
    • Received the CHristiane Reimann Prize
  • Dorothea Orem

    *Established the Orem Model of Nursing, also known as, Slef Care Deficit Nursing Theory
  • Martha Rogers

    *Developed the Science of Unitary Human Beings
    * Wrote An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing
  • Ida V. Moffett

    • Awarded the gold badge
    • First woman invilced in getting school accrediation in Alabama
  • Madeleine Leininger

    *Recognzed as the founder of transcutural nursing.
    *Written and edited 27 books and founded the Journal of Transcultural Nursing Society
  • Jean Watson

    *Theory of Human/Transpersonal Caring