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Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix She worked to bring awareness and understanding to "insane" human beings. She was instrumental in the establishment of the first mental hospital. She was also the superintendant of Army Nurses during the Civil war. -
Mary Ann Bikerdyke
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Mary was a nurse and provided various forms of healthcare to the Union army during the Civil war. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards Richards was Americas "first trained nurse". -
Mary Mahoney
Mary Mahoney Americas first African-American registered nurse. -
Clara Barton
[Picture of Barton](javascript:eml2('c/c8/','Clarabartonwcbbrady.jpg')) Clara Barton was a pioneer nurse, teacher, and humanitarian. During the civil war she established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies to wounded soldiers. She eventually organized the Red Cross. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabel Hampton Robb She implemented a grading policy for incoming nursing students. They had to have adequate scores before they were qualified to be a nurse. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Mary Nuttin Created a sound 6-month program for nursing students. -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Dock She wrote Materia Medica for Nurses which was one of the first textbooks for Nursing. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger Birth control activist and founder of the American Birth Control League. -
Annie Goodrich
Nursing educator. Institutor of the first bachelor's degree in nursing. She was the Dean at the Yale University School of Nursing. -
Mary Breckinridge
An American midwife who founded the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies. -
Lillian Wald
[Lillian Wald](javascript:eml2('4/42/','Lillian_Wald_young_in_nurse_uniform.jpg')) Recognized as the founder of 'visiting nurses'. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida V. Moffett Famous nurse who was an iconic symbol of nursing care. She coined a few key phrases of 'nursing wisdom'. A few of them are.. "Compassion means taking action, even at the sacrifice of one's own comfort and convenience." "The patient is the most important person in the hospital, just as the customer is the most important person in any business." "Values must be spoken, demonstrated and drilled into each new arrival in the staff. Silent values are useless." -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Lillian Harvey Dean of the Tuskegee University School of Nursing for nearly 30 years. Her program was the first to offer BS of nursing in Alabama. -
Martha Rogers
Martha Rogers Established the Visiting Nurse serrvice in Arizona. -
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger Dr. Madeleine Leininger is the founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement -
Jean Watson
Jean Watson Founder of the Center for Human Caring. -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia Henderson She is famous for her definition of nursing which she defined 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"" -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem Orem was the founder of the 'Orem model of nursing' or 'Self care deficit nursing theory'. This theoy states that nurses have to supply care when the patient cannot provide care to themselves. -
Hildegard Peplau
[Hildegard Peplau](javascript:eml2('b/b0/','Peplau2.jpg')) Dr. Peplau was interested in the nurse-client relationship and focused much of her time on what the nurse can learn by forming strong relationships with patients. If focused on the benfits of the nurse-client relationship can be beneficial to both parties involved. She also discerned the "6 nursing roles".
