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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann was an organizer and cheif of nursing, hospital and welfare services for the western armies under the command of Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War. She was given the nickname "Mother" by union soldiers. -
Dorothea Dix
She volunteered her services to the Union and received the appointment to placing her in charge of all women nurses working in army hospitals. -
Linda Richards
At the age of 15 Linda was one of five students that was enrolled at the University of Zurich and had been trained for surgery there. She later returned to Boston in 1878 to work at the Boston Hospital where she established a nurse training school. -
Clara Barton
In 1869 Clara started observering the concepts of the Red Cross, and she later got the United States to sign the treaty for the Red Cross. She remained the President of the Red Cross for twenty-two years. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mahoney became one of the first black nurses to graduate from nursing school. She became an inspiration to The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and helped make it possible to be recieved at the White House by President Warren G. Harding. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabell Robb gathered many women for schools and founded the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools of Nurses -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
She became assistant superintendent of the nursing school and later she became superintendent. In 1907,Nutting became the first woman at Columbia University to hold professorship. -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger gave up nursing to dedicate herself to distribution of birth control information. In 1914 she founded the National Birth Control League. -
Annie Goodrich
Goodrich, a graduate of the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses, served as president of the American Nurses Association from 1915 to 1918. -
Virginia Henderson
She entered the Army School of Nursing and recieved her diploma in 1921. In 1979 the Connecticut Nurses Association established the Virginia Henderson Award for outstanding contributions to nursing research. -
Mary Breckinridge
Breckinridge arrived in Leslie County, Kentucky to announce her intent to bring a nursing and midwifery service. She hired six nurse midwives that was trained in England and Scotland to provide healthcare and to attend to the births on their daily rounds of the county. -
Ida V. Moffett
Moffett became supervisor of the operating room in Birmingham Baptist hospital. -
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard was a member of the Army Nurse Corps and worked in a neuropsychiatric hospital in London, England. -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea was a nursing theorist and founder to the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Harvey completed her own doctor of education degree from Teachers College at Columbia University. In 1978, she was the first person named Dean Emeritus by Tuskegee University. -
Martha Rogers
Martha Rogers presented her evolutionary model in 1970 with the publication of An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. She also established the Visiting Nurse Service of Phoenix, Arizona. -
Jean Watson
The foundation of Jean Watson's theory was published in 1979 in nursing: %u201CThe philosophy and science of caring%u201D. In 1988, her theory was published in %u201Cnursing: human science and human care%u201D. -
Madeleine Leiniger
Leininger is the foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing Movement. She remains one of the most prolific writers throughout the world in the field of cultural care. -
Lavinia Dock
She complied the first, and long most important manual of drugs for nurses, Materia Medica for Nurses. After spells at John Hopkins and Cook County hospitals, she joined the Nurses' Settlement in New York City. -
Lillian Wald
Wald coined the "public health nurse" for nurses who worked outside hospitals in the poor and middle-class communities. She also helped initiate a series of lectures to educate prospective nurses at Columbia University's Teachers College in 1899.
