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Dorthea Dix
Dorthea Dix was a pioneer for modern nursing. Dix was an advocate for mentally ill patients and prisoners. She devoted her retired life working to help conditions for the mentally ill and prisoners. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton was a teacher early in her life up until the First Battle of Bull run where she was then working by distributing supplies to wounded soldiers. In 1873 Barton started a project called The American Red Cross. -
Linda Richards
Richards was the first professionally trained nurse. She was the first graduate in 1873. -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Doc was a feminist and fought for women’s rights and the rights for nurses to control their careers instead of physicians. She is most noted for the education of nurses in the realm of prescription drugs. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Robb was one of the pioneers of the modern nursing theory. She was most noted for in the education of nurses. She came up with the grading system that nurses are still graded on today. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mahoney was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating in 1879. In 1908, she cofounded the National Association of Colored Nurses. -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger was the first medical activist for birth control. She had many pregnancies in her early life and these led to many self inflicted abortions. She opened the first birth control clinic in 1916. -
Anna Goodrich
During her earlier career, she had many things to do with being over nursing training schools. In 1924, Goodrich developed and became the dean of the first Nursing Program at Yale University. -
Mary Breckenridge
To overcome the grief of her divorce and children’s death, Breckenridge became a nurse. She went to France where she was certified by the Central Midwives Board. In 1925 she founded the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies. -
Virginia Henderson
Henderson Came up with the Need Theory of nursing. She categorized nursing activities into 14 components based on human needs to help the patients continue a good healing process after leaving the care of nurses. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida Moffett was the founding leader of the Baptist Health System. She was a symbol for the Baptist System for 70 years and mentored more than 4,000 nurses during her lifetime. -
Dorthea Orem
Dorthea Orem was a well educated nurse receiving a Bachelors and a Master’s degree with a few honorary doctorates. Orem is most known for Orem Model of Nursing. This states that patients will recover quicker if they are allowed to do Self-Care themselves when they are capable. -
Martha Rogers
Roger’s Model of Nursing states that patients are “unitary human beings.” She states that people and universe are all correlated. She believed that a person’s style of living is reflected by their health. -
Hildegard Peplau
Peplau was a very educated nurse. She even developed and taught the first graduate level nursing students. She was most known for her Peplaus Model for nursing which stated how the nurse should treat patients. -
Madeleine Leininger
Leininger was most noted for her Transcultural Nursing Theory. This theory states that nurses should respect and be familiar with different patient’s culture. This helps not to offend patients with different cultures. -
Jean Watson
Watson is a well educated woman with a focus in psychiatric and mental health nursing. Her biggest contribution to nursing is Watson’s Philosophy and Science of Caring. It states that nursing should be taken on as a holistic approach opposed to just a simple medical cure.
