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Dorothea Dix
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. -
Linda Richards
- 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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Mary Eliza Mahoney
Was the first African American to graduate from a school of Nursing in 1879. -
Clara Barton
- 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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Isabel Hampton Robb
- 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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Lavinia Doc
Developed the first Manual of drugs for nurses called “Materia Medica for Nurses” in 1890. -
Margaret Sanger
Birth control activist that opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in Oct of 1916. -
Anna Goodrich
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. -
Mary Breckenridge
In 1925 she developed model for rural health care system known as the Frontier Nursing Service. 1939 started a midwifery school. -
Ida V. Moffett
Organized Alabama’s first unit of the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1943. -
Hildegard Peplau
Known as the “mother of psychiatric nursing”. published “Interpersonal Relations in Nursing” in 1952. -
Virginia Henderson
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”. -
Matha Rogers
Developed the Science of Unitary Human Beings. Wrote an Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing in 1970. -
Dorthea Orem
Developed Nursing theory, which was published in Nursing: Concepts of Practice, in 1971. -
Madeleine Leininger
Known as “Margaret Mead of Nursing” created and founded a program of Tran-cultural nursing in 1974. -
Jean Watson
Created Watson Caring Science Institute in 2007 to support the health care system to nurture and retain competent, caring, and professional nurses.
