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Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix was made Superintendent of Women Nurses during the Civil War. Before and after the war she worked with the mentally handicapped. -
Linda Richards
Linda Richards was the first formally trained nurse. She established many nurse training schools including the first one in Japan. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Mahoney was the first African-American professional nurse. Her work improved the image of African-Americans as nurses. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann Bickerdyke was a nurse during the Civil War who truly cared about the soldiers. She often challenged officers who didn't provide adequate care for their men. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton volunteered with the Sixth Massachusets Regiment and operated a large scale relief operation. She had a lot to do with the founding of the Red Cross. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Mary Adelaide Nutting was part of the first class to graduate from John Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses. She was the world's first professor of nursing. -
Lavinia Dock
Lavinia Dock composed Materia Medica for Nurses. It was one of the most important textbooks for nurses. She worked very hard to improve the health of the poor and she also worked hard to improve the nursing profession as a whole. -
Lillian Wald
Worked to provide decent health care to the people who lived in New York's lower East Side tenaments. She established the Henry Street Settlement. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabel Hampton Robb helped establish the American Nurses Association and she was also the first president. She also helped start the American Journal of Nursing. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger gave up nursing and devoted herself to the distribution of birth control information. She established the first birth control clinic in the United States. -
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge developed an interest in nurse midwives during World War I. She trained in England because there was no program for nurse-midwives in America. She wanted to help care for mothers and babies in rural America. -
Annie Goodrich
Annie Goodrich started and became the dean of the first nursing program at Yale. She later developed it into a graduate program. -
Virginia Henderson
Virginia Henderson categorized nursing in 14 different components based on human need. She wanted the patients to become as independent as possible. -
Ida V. Moffett
Ida V. Moffett was the first woman involved in achieving school accreditation, in closing substandard nursing schools, and in starting junior college-level degree programs for nurses. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
Lillian Holland Harvey started the first baccalaureate of nursing proram in Alabama. She was a pioneer for African American nurses. -
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau is known as the "mother of psychiatric nursing." She came up with a way for helping the relationships between nurses and patients. -
Dororthea Orem
Dororthea Orem founded the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficite Nursing Theory. This theory simply said that nurses have to take care of patients when they they can't take care of themselves. -
Martha Rogers
Martha Rogers published a model of human and nurse interactions called An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. It presented a new way of looking at nurse and patient interactions. -
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger established the program of transcultural nursing. She believed that nurses needed to understand their patient's background to truly provide good care. -
Jean Watson
Jean Watson published her theory "nursing: human science and human care" to show that good nurses need to have liberal arts in their background. She also studied the areas of human caring and human loss.
