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History of Nursing NU-200 JKS

By mwright
  • Mary Ann Bickerdyke (1817-1901)

    Mary Ann Bickerdyke (1817-1901)
    She attended Oberlin College. After her husband died she supported herself by studying "botanic" medicine. In 1842 she volunteered to distribute supplies to wounded soldiers. She made a number forrays on the battlefield that attracted much general attention.
  • Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)

    Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)
    In 1861 was placed over all women nurses working in army hospitals, worked with the mentally ill and established the woman's place in the nursing field.
  • Linda Richards (1841-1930_

    Linda Richards (1841-1930_
    She was the first trained nurse in the United States. She eventually took over the Boston Training School.
  • Clara Barton (1821-1912)

    Clara Barton (1821-1912)
    In April of 1861 after the battle of Bull Run, she started distributing supplies to wounded soldiers. After the war she became a motivational speaker, and established the American Red Cross in 1881.
  • Isabel Hampton Robb (1860-1910)

    Isabel Hampton Robb (1860-1910)
    She graduated from Bellvue Hospital School of NUrsing in 1883. In 1889 she was appointed head of the New Hopkins School of Nursing and wrote the book, Nursing: It's Principles and Practice. She was the founder of the Modern American Nursing Theory.
  • Lillian Wald (1867-1940_

    Lillian Wald (1867-1940_
    In 1893 she founded the Henry Street Settlement and the New York Public Nursing Service.
  • Lavinia Dock (1858-1956)

    Lavinia Dock (1858-1956)
    She is most noted for compiling the first manual of drugs for nurses, titled Maelia Medica for nurses, in 1899. She also worked with Lillian Wald and joined the nurses settlement at age fifty.
  • Mary Adebide Nutting (1856-1948)

    Mary Adebide Nutting (1856-1948)
    In 1907 she becaome the world's first professor of nursing. She headed the nursing department at Columbia University from 1910 until 1925. She was also in the first graduating class from the New John Hopkins School of Nursing.
  • Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926)

    Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926)
    She was the first African American registered nurse in the United States. In 1896 she becaome a member of the American Nursing Association. In 1908 she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. In 1936 an award was set up in her honor, ans she was inducted to the American Nursing Association's hall of fame.
  • Annie Goodrich (1866-1954)

    Annie Goodrich (1866-1954)
    She was trained at the New York Hospital School of Nursing (1890-1892). She eventually became the head nurse there. She established the Army School of NUrsing(1918). She was also the first dean of the New York Nursing School.
  • Martha Rogers (1914-1994)

    Martha Rogers (1914-1994)
    She is famous for the idea of the Science of Unitary Human Beings. She wrote an Introductory to the Theorotical Basis of Nursing. She graduated from her nursing school in 1936.
  • Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)

    Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
    In 1912 she gave up the profession of nursing o dedicate herself to the distribution of birth control. In 1913 she founded a parar call ed the Women Rebel. In 1914 she founded the National Birth Control League, and after much hard work in 1942 Planned Parenthood was born.
  • Lillian Holland Harvey (1912-1994)

    Lillian Holland Harvey (1912-1994)
    She was the first person to offer a Bachelors of Science degree in nursing, and she did this at the University of Alabama at Tuskegee in 1948. In 1952 she was awarded the Mary Mahoney Medal by the American Nursing Association.
  • Dorothea Orem (1914-2007)

    Dorothea Orem (1914-2007)
    She was the founder of the Orem Model of Nursing or the Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory which states thatnurses must provide care when patient's cannot. In 1959 she published her theory in "Guides for Developing Curricula for the education of Practical Nurses".
  • Virginia Henderson (1897-1996)

    Virginia Henderson (1897-1996)
    In 1966 she defined nursing as assisting indviduals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or it's recovery. She graduated from the Army School of Nursing in 1921.
  • Madeleine Leininger (1925- )

    Madeleine Leininger (1925-    )
    She was a pionerring nurse theorist who was first published in 1961. She is famous for developing theconcept of transcultural nursing in 1974.
  • Jean Watson

    Jean Watson
    She developed the Caring Theory in 1979. It states that "caring" is am endorsement of professional nurses identity.
  • Ida V. Moffet (1905-1996)

    Ida V. Moffet (1905-1996)
    She was the director of Alabama's largest nursing school. She was known for her high ideals reguarding the field of nursing. She was awarded the Gold Badge of Service to the Red Cross in 1965, and her book, Courage to Care, was published in 1988. She was also inducted into the Alabama's women's hall of fame in 2001.
  • Hilidegard Peplau (1909-1999)

    Hilidegard Peplau (1909-1999)
    She gaduated from Pottstown Pennsylivia School of Nursing. She is known as the "mother of Psychiatric Nursing". She won nursing's highest award, the Christiane Reimann Prize ,in 1997. The American Nursing Association hall of fame inducted her. She was also the only nurse to be on the executive board and later president of the American Nursing Association.