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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Knowen as the " Mother " Bickerdyne, due to her nursing of soldiers during the civil war. -
Dorothea Dix
In June of 1861, She was placed in charge of all women nurses working in army hospitals. She worked without pay through the entire war. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
America's first black professional nursse. She inspired both nurses and patients with her calm, quiet efficiency and untiring compassion. -
Clara Barton
After the Battle of Bull Run, She established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies to the wounded shoulders. In 1881 she established the American Red Cross , and served as director until her death. -
Lavinia Dock
Nurse and Social reformer. She served as a visting nurse among the poor, she compiled the first, and long most important, manual of drugs for nurses. -
Linda Richards
She used her experience to establish the first training program in Japan. She stayed in Japan for five years. -
Lillian Wald
Founder of the Henery Street visiting nurse service. She was also responsible for the instruction of nurses in the public schools. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Robb gathered togeather a group of women who were superintentendents of schools and founded the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
She was a graduate of the first class of the John Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. She established an eight hour day for nurses. -
Hildegard Peplau
She was born in 1909. Peplau was often reconised as the "Mother of Psychiatric Nursing". -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger gave up nursing work to dedicate herself to the distribution of birth control. -
Dorothea Orem
She was noted for being a nursing theorist. Her theroty states that nurses have to supply care when patients cannot provide care ti themselves. -
Martha Rogers
Born, Sharing a birthday with Florence Nightingale. She was a public health nurse. In 1945 she became ED of the first visiting nurse service in Arizona. -
Annie Goodrich
ANA Hall of Fame Inductee. She was knowen as a crusader among nurses. She became dean of the first nursing program at Yale University in 1924. -
Mary Breckinridge
Was an American nurse who started the frontier nursing service in Kentucky, In order to provide health care to poor people. -
Lillan Holland Harvey
She weathered the difficult times of racial discrimination and segregation. She was the Dean of the Tuskegee University School fo Nursing. This was the first to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing in the State of Alabama. -
Ida V. Moffett
She attended the first nationwide conference of nursing organzations. She became committed to the concept that nurse should be educated in a university setting. -
Madeleine Leininger
She traveled to New Guinea and saw the need for nurses to understand their patients culture and background in order to provide care. -
Virginia Henderson
Defined nursing as "assisting" individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance contributing to health. -
Jean Watson
In 1988 her therory was published in the nursing human science and human care.
