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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Bickerdyke established hospitals for soldiers. She was a nurse and health care provider to the Union Army during the American Civil War. -
Dorothea Dix
At the outbreak of the Civil War she put her energies into being the Superintendent of Union Army Nurses.In 1881 the state hospital which was the first hospital that was initiated and built through her efforts to be opened in Trenton, New Jersey. -
Clara Barton
In April 1862, after the First Battle of Bull Run, Barton established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies to wounded soldiers. In 1881,she established the American Red Cross, and served as its director until her death. -
Linda Richards
she established a nurse training school at the Boston College Hospital in 1878. Linda used her experience to establish the first nurse-training program in Japan. -
Lavinia Dock
she wrote Materia Medica for Nurses, one of the first nursing textbooks. She wrote Hygiene and Morality and in 1907, co-authored with Adelaide Nutting the first two volumes of the four-volume History of Nursing. Volumes III and IV were completed by Dock alone in 1912. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Nutting headed the Department of Nursing and Health at the college from 1910 until she retired in 1925. She wrote A Sound Economic Basis for Nursing. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
In 1893, Robb gathered together a nucleus of women who were superintendents of schools and founded the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses.In 1896, Robb organized the group known as the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada. -
Lillian Wald
Lillian D. Wald was the founder of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service and of the Henry Street Settlement. She authored two books relating to this work, the first being The House on Henry Street, first published in 1911, followed by Windows on Henry Street in 1934. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mahoney recognized the need for nurses to work together to improve the status of blacks in the profession. In 1908 she was cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). -
Margaret Sanger
In 1914 she founded the National Birth Control League. In 1916,she set up the first birth control clinic in the United States, and the following year, she was sent to the workhouse for "creating a public nuisance." -
Annie Goodrich
Goodrich established the United States Student Nurse Reserve, more commonly known as the Army School of Nursing, in 1918-1919. In 1923, she became 1st Dean of the new Yale University School of Nursing begun with money from Rockefeller Foundation,and in 1935, now Dean Emerita, she spent a year helping the now University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing serving as Special Lecturer on Nursing Education. -
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse who started the Frontier Nursing Service. She founded the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, which soon became the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida dedicated her life to providing quality care and creating standardized nursing education. Having presided over the graduation and licensing of more than 4,000 nurses, and having led the major health care professional organizations of the state, she made an indelible mark on an industry. -
Hidegard Peplau
Dr. Peplau emphasized the nurse-client relationship as the foundation of nursing practice.The essence of Peplau's theories is the creation of a shared experience. -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem was a nursing theorist and founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. She completed the 6th edition of Nursing:Concepts of Practice. -
Martha Rogers
she established and eventually became the Executive Director of the first Visiting Nurse Service in Phoenix, AZ. In about 1963 Martha edited a journal called Nursing Science. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
In 1948 the first baccalaureate of nursing program in Alabama, was started under her leadership. She inproved the status of black nurse in the society! -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia Henderson defined nursing as "assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery -
Madeleine Leininger
Her contributions to nursing theory involve the discussion of what it is to care. she developed the concept of transcultural nursing and has edited 27 books and founded the Journal of Transcultural Nursing . -
Jean Watson
She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. The foundation of Jean Watson%u2019s theory of nursing was published in 1979 in nursing: %u201CThe philosophy and science of caring%u201D
