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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Bickerdyke is famous for being a hospital administrator and nurse for Union soldiers during the Civil War. By the end of the war, she had helped build over 300 hospitals and aided wounded soldiers on 19 battlefields. -
Clara Barton
During the Civil War, Barton established an agency to help acquire and deliver sopplies to wounded soldiers. This agency eventually developed into the American Red Cross. -
Linda Richards
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. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mahoney was the first African-American to graduate from a nursing program. She graduated from New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Nutting went to Baltimore to enter the first class of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses. After graduating, she served as a head nurse at the school. Later, she became the world's first professor of nursing at Columbia University. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Robb was one of the founders of modern American nursing theory and the implementation of a grading policy for nursing students. In 1889 she was appointed head of the new Johns Hopkins nursing school, where she continued to suggest reforms, participated in teaching, and published the text "Nursing: Its Principles and Practice." -
Dorothea Dix
Was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses. -
Lillian Wald
Wald is widely regarded as the founder of visiting nursing in the United States and Canada. She was also the founder of the Henry Street Settlement. -
Lavinia Dock
Dock was a nurse, author, pioneer in nursing education and social activist. Her books included a four volume history of nursing and what was for many years a standard nurse's manual of drugs.
Her book "Materia Medica for Nurses" was one of the first nursing textbooks. -
Annie Goodrich
Annie Goodrich served as president of the American Nurses Association. -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). -
Virginia Henderson
Henderson was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author. She is famous for her definition of nursing: "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." -
Mary Breckinridge
Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. -
Madeleine Leininger
Leininger is the foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement which brings the role of cultural factors in nursing practice into the discussion of how to best attend to those in need of nursing care. -
Ida V. Moffett
She organized Alabama's first unit of the Cadet Nurse Corps, a federal program of the Public Health Service that was established to overcome a shortage of nurses, and oversaw construction of a second building for the School of Nursing. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Harvey's work through professional organizations advanced the cause of black nurses and the nursing profession. She also helped to start the first baccalaureate of nursing program in the state of Alabama. -
Hildegard Peplau
She was a nursing theorist whose seminal work "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing." Her emphasis on the give-and-take of nurse-client relationships was seen by many as revolutionary. -
Dorothea Orem
She was the founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory, which states that nurses have to supply care when the patients cannot provide care to themselves. -
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." -
Jean Watson
She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Her Theory of Human Caring was published in her book %u201CThe philosophy and science of caring.%u201D
