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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Having scavenged supplies and equipment and established mobile laundries and kitchens, Bickerdyke had generally endeared herself to the wounded and sick, among whom she became known as "Mother" Bickerdyke. She retained her position largely through the influence of Grant, Sherman, and others who recognized the value of her services. -
Dorothea Dix
Dix became the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses during the Civil War. In June 1861 she was placed in charge of all women nurses working in army hospitals. Serving in that position without pay through the entire war, Dix quickly molded her vaguely defined duties. -
Margeret Sanger
In 1912, Sanger gave up nursing work to dedicate herself to the distribution of birth control information. However, the Comstock Act of 1873 was used to forbid distribution of birth control devices and information. Sanger wrote many books and articles on birth control, marriage and an autobiography. -
Clara barton
She was civil war nurse. She began her civil war work in April 1861. After the war, she became a popular and widely respected lecturer. In 1881 she established American Red Cross, and served as its director until her death. -
Linda Richards
America's first trained nurse. She has long been recognized for her significant innovations in the nursing profession. Richards, who graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1873, introduced the concept of keeping patient records, such as nurse's notes and doctor's orders Richards added another "first" to her professional record when she became the first stockholder in the American Journal of Nursing. -
Lillian Wald
She invented public health nursing in 1893.she was also the founder of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service and she wrote several books about her activities. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
She was the first president of American Nurses Association. In 1896, Robb organized the group known as the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada. -
Mary Eliza Mahnoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American registered nurse in the U.S.A. In 1896, Mahoney became one of the original members of a predominately white Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (later known as the American Nurses Association or ANA). In 1908 she was cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). -
Lavinia Dock
She wrote Materia Medica for Nurses, one of the first nursing textbooks. In addition to serving as foreign editor of the American Journal of Nursing, she wrote Hygiene and Morality in 1907 co-authored with Adelaide Nutting. -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Mary Adelaide Nutting was a noted educator, historian, and scholar. She was a strong advocate of university education for nurses and was instrumental in developing the first programs of this type. During her lifetime, Nutting made significant contributions to nursing literature. -
Virginia Henderson
A modern legend in nursing, Virginia A. Henderson has earned the title "foremost nurse of the 20th century." Her contributions are compared to those of Florence Nightingale because of their far-reaching effects on the national and international nursing communities. -
Annie Warburton Goodrich
She is known as a crusader and diplomat among nurses. She served as president of the American Nurses Association from 1915 to 1918. In 1924 she became the dean of first nursing school at Yale University. -
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge introduced a model rural health care system into the United States in 1925. To provide professional services to neglected people of a thousand square mile area in southeastern Kentucky, she created a decentralized system of nurse-midwives, district nursing centers, and hospital facilities. -
Hildegard peplau
She graduated from the Pottstown, Pennsylvania Hospital School of Nursing in 1931. she worked as an operating room supervisor at Pottstown Hospital.During World War II, Hildegard Peplau was a member of the Army Nurse Corps and worked in a neuropsychiatric hospital in London, England. -
6.Ida Vines Moffett
Ida Vines Moffett (1905-1996) was a lifelong champion of compassionate care. In September 1941 she became director of nursing for both Birmingham Baptist and Highland Avenue Baptist hospitals and their joint nursing school. In 1943 she organized Alabama's first unit of the Cadet Nurse Corps. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
she initiated the first baccalaureate program in the state of Alabama. The first class graduated from the baccalaureate program in 1953. For her achievements during her 1944-1973 tenure leading nursing at Tuskegee, Harvey was among the first to be inducted into the Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame in 2001. -
Dorothea Elizabeth Orem
She was a nursing theorist and founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory. This theory states that nurses have to supply care when the patients cannot provide care to themselves. -
Martha Rogers
Martha E. Rogers' An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing (1970) marked the advent of a new era in nursing science. With a view of nursing as a "learned profession," this landmark work staked out a substantive knowledge base for the discipline. Martha E. Rogers' creation of the Science of Unitary Human Beings (SUHB) theory allowed nursing to be considered one of the scientific disciplines. -
Madeline Leininger
Madeline Leininger was a pioneer nurse anthropologist. She is considered by some to be the "Margaret Mead of nursing" and is recognized worldwide as the founder of transcultural nursing, a program that she created at the School in 1974. She has written or edited 27 books and founded the Journal of Transcultural Nursing to support the research of the Transcultural Nursing Society, which she started in 1974. -
Jean Watson
She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. In 1979 she developed her caring theory.
