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Dorothea Dix
Dorothea opened of the first state hospital for the mentally ill, the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, in Trenton in 1848. . She is best known as the nineteenth century woman who greatly improved the treatment of the mentally ill. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton started the Red Cross organization and was chosen as the first Red Cross Society President in 1881. Clara Barton established the first permanent American Red Cross society and headed the organization until 1904. -
Mary Ann Bckerdyke
Union nurse in the American Civil War. she was generally called Mother Bickerdyke, she served throughout the war in the West and was beloved by the all the military men. -
Linda Richards
She was the first trained nurse. Linda was one of five graduates in nursing at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. She also is recognized for creating the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American registered nurse in the U.S.A. In 1879 she graduated nursing school at the New England Hospital for Womean and Children. 1908 she was cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses -
Isabel Hampton Rob
One of her most notable contributions to the system of nursing education was the implementation of a grading policy for nursing students. n 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. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Entered the first class of the new Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland graduating in 1891. . She wrote A Sound Economic Basis for Nursing, and wrote many articles for nursing and health periodicals. -
Lillian Wald
Lillian D. Wald was the founder of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service and of the Henry Street Settlement. She was also responsible for the instruction of nurses in the public schools and for insurance companies providing free visiting nurses for their policy hold -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Dock wrote Materia Medica for Nurses, one of the first nursing textbooks.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 -
Margaret Sangers
Margaret Sangers is known for advocating birth control in 1912 and women's rights. In 1916 Sanger set up the first birth control clinic in the United States, -
Annie Goodrich
She developed, and in 1924 became dean of, the first nursing program at Yale University. She was responsible for developing the program into the Yale Graduate School of Nursing ten years later. -
Mary Breckinridge
American nurse who started the Frontier Nursing Service in the Appalachian region of Kentucky, in order to provide health care topoor people who lived in remote mountain settlements. Breckinridge also founded the first school in America that trained and certified midwifes. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida became the first woman involved in achieving school accreditation, in forming university- level degree programs for nursing, in licensing practical nursing, and in starting junior college-level degree programs for nurses. Half way through her career, the Baptist Hospital nursing school was named The Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing in recognition of her contributions to Alabama%u2019s healthcare profession. -
Hildegard Peplau
She is known as the mother of physciatric nursing.She became the only nurse to become the president of the ANA. Peplau emphasized the nurse-client relationship as the foundation of nursing practice. -
Martha Rogers
Martha was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author. Rogers is best known for developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings and her landmark book, An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing -
Lillian Holland Harvey
In 1948 the first baccalaureate of nursing program in the state of Alabama, was started under her leadership. She became Director of Nursing Service at John A. Andrew Hospital from 1944 to 1948, Dean of the school of Nursing, Tuskegee Institute (University) from 1948 until 1973. -
Dorothea Omen
She was a nursing theorist and the founder of "Self Care" Nursing. -
Virginia Henderson
Henderson is famous for a 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"[1]. -
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger is the foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. She believed one needs to try to understand others cultures and not discriminate in order to treat them. -
Jean Watson
The foundation of Jean Watson%u2019s theory of nursing was published in 1979 in nursing: %u201CThe philosophy and science of caring.%u201DWatson believes that the main focus in nursing is on carative factors.
