Junea's Nursing Timeline

  • Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix

    The founder of 32 mental institutions in 1848. Dix was known as the most effective humanitarians in her era.
  • Mary Ann Bickerdyke

    Mary Ann Bickerdyke

    She was a big help to the Union soldiers during the Civil War. By the end of the war, sje had built 300 hospitals and helped in the aid of 19 battlefield.
  • Linda Richards

    Linda Richards

    Richards was America's first trained nurse. She also established one the best nurse trainig prrgrams in the U.S.
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton

    Founder of American Red Cross during the wartime. This concept led to the pass of the "American Amendment" in 1884.
  • Mary Eliza Mohoney

    Mary Eliza Mohoney

    First Afrian-American registered nurse. SHe was also the co-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.
  • Isabel Hampton Robb

    Isabel Hampton Robb

    She was the first Superintendent at John Hopkins, Robbs was alos one of the founders of modern American Nusring Theory.
  • Lillian Wald

    Lillian Wald

    Founder of the Henry Street Settlement which began taught health and hygiene to immigrant women. She also was the founder of community nursing.
  • Lavinia Dock

    Lavinia Dock

    The author of Hygiene and Morality. She also worte Volumes III and IV of History of Nursing in 1912.
  • Mary Aelaide Nutting

    Mary Aelaide Nutting

    Sh was the first woman to hold the title professor at Columbia University.
  • Margaret Sanger

    Margaret Sanger

    In 1916, she help establish the first birth-control clinic in American. In 1921, she found the American Birth Control League.
  • Annie Goodrich

    Annie Goodrich

    She became the first Dean in College of Nursing at Yale University. She also established the United States Student Nurse Reserve (Army School of Nursing in 1918).
  • Mary Breckinridge

    Mary Breckinridge

    The founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. This team decreased the number deaths in children.
  • Virginia Henderson

    Virginia Henderson

    Henderson defined nursing as being someone who help individuals to gain their independence of the patients and to assist to their health and recovery.
  • Ida V. Moffett

    Ida V. Moffett

    An Alabama native who was a great asset to Princeton Baptist Medial Center and the Baptist Health System, She guided over 4,000 nurses during her time at Princeton.
  • Hildegard Peplau

    Hildegard Peplau

    Used the concept of "psychodynamic nursing" to identify the realtionship between a nurse and patient.
  • Lillian Holland Harvey

    Lillian Holland Harvey

    Dean of Nursing at Tuskegee University. Under her supervision Tuskegee became the first college to offer a Bachelor's degree in nursing in Alabama.
  • Martha Rogers

    Martha Rogers

    Founder of Society of Rogerian Scholars. She wrote the book An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing.
  • Dorothea Orem

    Dorothea Orem

    A nurse therist who founded the Self-Care Deficit Theory. This theory announces that the nurses have to take care of patients who can not take care of themselves.
  • Madeleine Leininger

    Madeleine Leininger

    She is the founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. She also established the Transcultural Theory which talks about the concept of nursing, health, people, and the environment.
  • Jean Watson

    Jean Watson

    Developer of Human Caring Theory. This theory was not only for the ones being cared for but also for the caregivers,