Nurses

By babrams
  • Dorthea Dix

    Dorthea Dix

    Dorthea Dix First female Union Superintendent of nurses during the civil war.
  • Mary Eliza Mahoney

    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

    Clara Barton

    She was best known as the Founder of the Red Cross during the Civil War.
  • Isabel Hampton Robb

    Isabel Hampton Robb

    Known for implementing the grading policy and also became head of John Hopkins School of Nursing
  • Lavinia Doc

    Lavinia Doc

    Was an activist, and prominent author. She was known for one on the first books. Materia Medica for Nurses
  • Margaret Sanger

    Margaret Sanger

    Opened the first Birth Control clinic, and later established Planned Parenthood Federation
  • Anna Goodrich

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Virginia Henderson

    was a nurse, educator, author, researcher, was known for the widely accepted definitions of nursing.
  • Martha Rogers

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Jean Watson

    Was known for the theory of Human Care and founded the Watson Caring Institute.