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Dorothea Dix
The founder of 32 mental institutions in 1848. Dix was known as the most effective humanitarians in her era. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
She was a big help to the Union soldiers during the Civil War. By the end of the war, sje had built 300 hospitals and helped in the aid of 19 battlefield. -
Linda Richards
Richards was America's first trained nurse. She also established one the best nurse trainig prrgrams in the U.S. -
Clara Barton
Founder of American Red Cross during the wartime. This concept led to the pass of the "American Amendment" in 1884. -
Mary Eliza Mohoney
First Afrian-American registered nurse. SHe was also the co-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
She was the first Superintendent at John Hopkins, Robbs was alos one of the founders of modern American Nusring Theory. -
Lillian Wald
Founder of the Henry Street Settlement which began taught health and hygiene to immigrant women. She also was the founder of community nursing. -
Lavinia Dock
The author of Hygiene and Morality. She also worte Volumes III and IV of History of Nursing in 1912. -
Mary Aelaide Nutting
Sh was the first woman to hold the title professor at Columbia University. -
Margaret Sanger
In 1916, she help establish the first birth-control clinic in American. In 1921, she found the American Birth Control League. -
Annie Goodrich
She became the first Dean in College of Nursing at Yale University. She also established the United States Student Nurse Reserve (Army School of Nursing in 1918). -
Mary Breckinridge
The founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. This team decreased the number deaths in children. -
Virginia Henderson
Henderson defined nursing as being someone who help individuals to gain their independence of the patients and to assist to their health and recovery. -
Ida V. Moffett
An Alabama native who was a great asset to Princeton Baptist Medial Center and the Baptist Health System, She guided over 4,000 nurses during her time at Princeton. -
Hildegard Peplau
Used the concept of "psychodynamic nursing" to identify the realtionship between a nurse and patient. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Dean of Nursing at Tuskegee University. Under her supervision Tuskegee became the first college to offer a Bachelor's degree in nursing in Alabama. -
Martha Rogers
Founder of Society of Rogerian Scholars. She wrote the book An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. -
Dorothea Orem
A nurse therist who founded the Self-Care Deficit Theory. This theory announces that the nurses have to take care of patients who can not take care of themselves. -
Madeleine Leininger
She is the founder of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement. She also established the Transcultural Theory which talks about the concept of nursing, health, people, and the environment. -
Jean Watson
Developer of Human Caring Theory. This theory was not only for the ones being cared for but also for the caregivers,
