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Dorothea Dix
most effective advocate of humanitarian reform in American mental institutions during 19th century -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
served as hospital administrator for Union soldiers in American Civil War -
Linda Richards
created first written reporting system for nurses of charting and maintaining medical records -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
pioneer in black nursing -
Clara Barton
Founder American Red Cross -
Isabel Hampton Robb
implementation of a grading policy for nursing students -
Lavinia Dock
compiled first manual of drugs for nurses -
Lillian Wald
found life's work teaching a class in homenursing and hygeine to immigrant women on the lower east side -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
became world's first professor of nursing -
Nargaret Sanger
founded the National Birth Control League -
Annie Goodrich
President of American Nurses Association -
Mary Breckinridge
obtained midwifery training -
Virginia Henderson
famous for 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 a peaceful death) the he or she would perform unaided if he had necessary strength, will, or knowledge. -
Ida V. Moffett
first woman involved in achieving school accreditation, forming university level degree programs, closing substandard nursing schools -
Lillian Holland Harvey
established the first baccalaureate of nursing program in the state of Alabama -
Dorothea Orem
responsible for the self care deficit theory- nurses have to supply care when the patients cannot provide care themselves -
Hildegard Peplau
published " Interpersonal Relations in Nursing " -
Martha Rogers
presented evolutionary model of science of unitary human beings -
Madeline Leininger
Founder of transcultural nursing -
Jean Watson
published her theory " The Philosophy and Science of Caring"
