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Dorothea Dix
Dix was known as social reformer, as she served mentally ill patients and better prison conditions. 13 Jun, 1861 Army nursing care was markedly improved under her leadership. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Union nurse in the American Civil War. She was known as Mother Bickerdyke and she served throughout the war in the West. -
Clara Barton
She is remembered as the founder of the American Red Cross Society. Her most notable achievement was the establishment of a free public school in Bordentown, N.J. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards, the first student to enroll and was the first to graduate from the nursing program. She was first American trained nurse. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
In 1879 Mahoney became first African-American graduate nurse . In 1896, Mahoney became one of the first African-American members of the white American Nurses Association (ANA). She cofounded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). -
Isbal Hampton Robb
Isbal Hampton Robb was the first president of American Nurses Association. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb was the nursing professions prime mover in arranging at the national level. -
Lillian Wald
She was the founder of the Henry Street Settlement and American Community Nursing. Her devotion to humanity is recognized around the world -
Lavinia Dock
She played a major role as a contributing editor to the American Journal of Nursing. In 1907 she did most of the work for the %u201CA History of Nursing%u201D and remembered for her contribution to nursing literature. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
In 1907 Mary Nutting became the world's first professor of nursing. In 1934 she was named honorary president of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation. -
Annie Goodrich
From 1914 until 1923, Goodrich served as an inspector of training schools for the New York State Department of Education. In 1918-1919 Goodrich established the United States Student Nurse Reserve, more commonly known as the Army School of Nursing, in 1918-1919. -
Margaret Sanger
In 1917 Sanger set up the first birth control clinic in the United States, and, she was sent to the workhouse for "creating a public nuisance." She is also known for advocating birth control and women's health. -
Mary Breckinridge
In 1925 she founded the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, which soon became the Frontier Nursing Service. Breckinridge founded the first school in America that trained and certified midwifes. -
Ida V. Moffett
She developed the first licensed practical nursing program in Alabama and also began the state's first two-year nursing program at Jefferson State Community College. The Sanford University Nursing School is named in her honor. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
By the effort of Lillian Holland Harvey in Tuskegee University, Tuskegee School of Nursing became the first to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing in the state of Alabama. -
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau, was known as the "mother of psychiatric nursing,%u201D 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). -
Dorothea Orem
She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was a nursing theorist and founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. -
Virginia Henderson
Henderson defined nursing in functional terms %u201CThe 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". -
Martha Rogers
In 1970 she first published her model of human interaction and the nursing process and also published %u201CAn Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing%u201D. This view presented a drastic but attractive way of viewing human interaction and the nursing process. -
Jean Waston
She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. The foundation of Jean Watson%u2019s theory of nursing was published in 1979 in nursing: %u201CThe philosophy and science of caring%u201D. -
Madeleine Leininger
She was pioneer nurse anthropologist and is recognized worldwide as the founder 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.
