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1802-1887 Dix became the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses during the Civil War.
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1841-1930 The first professionally trained American nurse. She also developed a system for medical records.
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1845-1926 She was the first black woman to complete nurse's training. She was also one of the first black members of the American Nurses Association.
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1860-1910 She was American Nurses Associations first president
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1879- 1966 Birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic and established planned parenthood.
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Founded American Red Cross in 1881. She also did service in the Civil War.
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1881- 1965 The founder of the Frontier Nursing Service and she started family care centers in the Appalachian mountains.
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President of the American Nurses Assosiation from 1915-1918. She was known as a crusader and diplomat among nurses and was constantly active in local, state, national, and international nursing affairs
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1858-1956 She wrote four volumes on the history of nursing .
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1909-1999 Pepllau was the first published theorist since Florence Nightingale. She led the way towards humane treatment of patients with behavior and personality disorders.
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Nursing theorist that published work in 1961, her contributions to what it is to care.
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• Henderson was a nurse, researcher, theorist and author. She is known for her definition of nursing "The 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".
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• she developed the first licensed practical nursing program in Alabama and the Sanford University Nursing School is named in her honor.
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1914- 1994 Rogers is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and for her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing.
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1914-2007 Dorthea Orem published her theory and believed that people have a natural ability for self care, and nursing should focus on affecting that ability.
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• Known for her theory of humane caring. It was published in 1988.
