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Dorthea Dix
Dorthea Dix First female Union Superintendent of nurses during the civil war. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
1879 First African American to become a nurse; she was one of four students to graduate. She also founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses -
Clara Barton
She was best known as the Founder of the Red Cross during the Civil War. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Known for implementing the grading policy and also became head of John Hopkins School of Nursing -
Lavinia Doc
Was an activist, and prominent author. She was known for one on the first books. Materia Medica for Nurses -
Margaret Sanger
Opened the first Birth Control clinic, and later established Planned Parenthood Federation -
Anna Goodrich
1918, she became chief inspecting nurse of the United States Army's hospitals. She was also founder of Yale School of Nursing. -
Mary Breckenridge
Breckenridge's Frontier Nursing School grew to include classes of family nurse practitioners. And is considered the mother of midwifery -
Ida V. Moffett
Developed the first licensed practical nurse program in Alabama and also began the state's first two-year nursing program at Jefferson State Community College -
Hildegard Peplau
She was known for being the first published author after Florence Nighttingale. She is known for books on the interpersonal process. “Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" -
Virginia Henderson
was a nurse, educator, author, researcher, was known for the widely accepted definitions of nursing. -
Martha Rogers
Most known for developing the for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings which lead to nursing being considered a science. -
Dorthea Orem
She was a theorist, whom came up with the Self Care Theory. This theory explains how we are to maintain our everyday health and life -
Madeleine Leininger
"Margaret Mead of nursing" and is recognized worldwide as the founder of transcultural nursing, a program that she created at the School in 1974 -
Linda Richards
One of the first trained nurses and she began to train others throught the United States and Japan. She also instituted the practice of wearing uniforms
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Jean Watson
Was known for the theory of Human Care and founded the Watson Caring Institute.
