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Was the Union’s Superintendent of Female Nurses during the Civil War, June 1861. Worked on behalf of the mentally ill as well as convincing military officials that women could perform well in army hospitals.
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- 1873 was the first professionally trained nurse. Established nurse training programs and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospital patients.
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Was the first African American to graduate from a school of Nursing in 1879.
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- Served during the Civil war and was the founder of the American Red Cross. ARC was founded in May 21, 1881.
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- Implemented a grading policy for nursing students. In 1889 became the first Superintendent of Nurses and Principal of the Training School at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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Developed the first Manual of drugs for nurses called “Materia Medica for Nurses” in 1890.
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Birth control activist that opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in Oct of 1916.
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Was Chief Inspecting Nurse of the United States Army’s Hospitals in 1918. She was also founder of the Yale school of Nursing, as well as the first dean in 1923.
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In 1925 she developed model for rural health care system known as the Frontier Nursing Service. 1939 started a midwifery school.
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Organized Alabama’s first unit of the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1943.
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Known as the “mother of psychiatric nursing”. published “Interpersonal Relations in Nursing” in 1952.
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Famously defined the role of a nurse in 1966 as: “ 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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Developed the Science of Unitary Human Beings. Wrote an Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing in 1970.
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Developed Nursing theory, which was published in Nursing: Concepts of Practice, in 1971.
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Known as “Margaret Mead of Nursing” created and founded a program of Tran-cultural nursing in 1974.
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Created Watson Caring Science Institute in 2007 to support the health care system to nurture and retain competent, caring, and professional nurses.
