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Dorothea Dix
Dorethea Dix revolutionized treatment for the mentally ill in the
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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann Bickerdyke was a hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the American Civil War. She later worked on the first hospital boat. During the war, she became chief of nursing under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant, and served at the Battle of Vicksburg. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards was the first professionally trained American nurse. She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients in 1873. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American registered nurse in the U.S.A. At the age of thirty-three, she was admitted as a student into the hospital's nursing program. Later she was one of the four who completed the courses. Forty-two people started originally started the course. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton is the founder of the American Red Cross. She tended to countless wounded soldiers on Civil War battlefields. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
In 1889 she was appointed head of the new Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She was a founder of the modernized American nursing theory. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Nutting was the head nurse in a hospital for two years and then assistant superintendent of nurses for a year.She was honored for her outstanding contributions to nursing and nursing education, Mary Adelaide Nutting was a noted educator, historian, and scholar. -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Dock did most of the work for "A History of Nursing". She played a major role as a contributing editor to the American Journal of Nursing and she linked American nurses' goals to similar efforts in England. -
Lillian Wald
Lillian Wald was one of the seminal founders of the NAACP. She was also the originator of public-health nursing and the founder of the Visiting Nurse Service in New York City. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League. -
Annie Warburton Goodrich
Annie Goodrich was the president of the American Nurses Association. She was the Organizing Dean for the Army School of Nursing. Also, Annie was the first Dean and Professor at Yale University School of Nursing, -
Mary Brekinridge
Brekinridge established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) to provide professional health care in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. This was one of America's poorest and most isolated regions. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida V. Moffett was from Alabama. She was an orthopedic surgeon and became the operating room supervisor for Birmingham Baptist Hospital, serving until her marriage to Howard D. Moffett on June 29,1929. She returned to Birmingham in 1934 as head nurse of the second branch of Baptist Hospital, the Highland Avenue Baptist Hospital. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Dr. Lillian Harvey was Dean of the Tuskegee (Institute) University School of Nursing for almost three decades. Under her leadership and untiring efforts, the School of Nursing at Tuskegee became the first to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing in the state of Alabama. -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem, began, developed, and invented the theory of self care. Self-care comprises activities performed by an individual to promote and maintain personal well-being throughout life. -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia Henderson graduated from the Army School of Nursing, Washington, D.C., in 1921. She wrote and/or edited several editions of the The Principles and Practice of Nursing, -
Hildegard Peplau
Peplau thought of nursing as a psychiatric process. According to Peplau, nursing is therapeutic because it is a healing art. Nursing is assisting an individual who is sick or in need of health care. -
Martha Rogers
Rogers is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. -
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger is recognized worldwide as the founder of transcultural nursing, a program that she created at the University of Washington. -
Jean Watson
Jean Watson developed the theory of human caring. She's a professor at the University of Colorado. She not only is concerned about the cared for but the caregiver.
