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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
"Mother" Bickerdyke was so loved by the army that the soldiers would cheer her as they would a general when she appeared. -
Dorothea Dix
During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses. -
Linda Richards
Her administrative experience with Sister Helen helped her turn the Boston Training School program around and it became one of the best nurse training programs in the country. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mahoney recognized the need for nurses to work together to improve the status of blacks in the profession. -
Clara Barton
She has been described as having a "strong and independent spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
She was a graduate of the first class of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. While at Johns Hopkins, she expanded the curriculum in the school of nursing, added a preclinical training period, and established an eight-hour day for nurses. -
Lavinia Dock
She played a major role as a contributing editor to the American Journal of Nursing and she linked American nurses' goals to similar efforts in England. She also did most of the work for A History of Nursing -
Annie Warburton Goodrich
Goodrich, a graduate of the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses, served as president of the American Nurses Association from 1915 to 1918 -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic at 46 Amboy St. in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first of its kind in the United States -
Mary Breckinridge
In her forty years of workwith the Frontier Nursing Service, well over 50,000 registered patients weretreated and over a quarter of a million inoculations were administered. Onlyeleven maternal deaths were recorded. -
Ida Vines Moffett
Ida Vines Moffett was one of the most beloved and influential Alabamians in the health profession. she 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. -
Martha Rogers
She first published her model of human interaction and the nursing process in 1970 when she published An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. This view presented a drastic but attractive way of viewing human interaction and the nursing process. -
Hildegard Peplau
During World War II, Hildegard Peplau was a member of the Army Nurse Corps and worked in a neuropsychiatric hospital in London, England. -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia Henderson defined nursing as "assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery" -
Dorothea Orem
born in Baltimore, Maryland, was a nursing theorist and founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. -
Jean Watson
She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She previously served as Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and is a Past President of the National League for Nursing -
Madeleine Leininger
Most notably, she developed the concept of transcultural nursing, bringing the role of cultural factors in nursing practice into the discussion of how to best attend to those in need of nursing care. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
One of the founders of modern American nursing theory and one of the most important leaders in the history of nursing. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Under her leadership and untiring efforts, the School of Nursing at Tuskegee became the first to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing in the state of Alabama. -
Lillian Wald
Championing the causes of public health nursing, housing reform, suffrage, world peace, and the rights of women, children, immigrants and working people, Wald became an influential leader in city, state, and national politics. Her tireless efforts to link the health of children with the health of nations made her a model of achievement, caring, and integrity throughout her lifetime.
