Category: Nursing Pioneers

Lystra Gretter (née Lystra Eggert) was born in September 3, 1858 in Bayfield, Canada West (now known as Ontario). She was a Canadian-American nurse who devoted her career to improving

Linda Richards (July 27, 1841 – April 16, 1930) is generally recognized as the first professionally trained American nurse. Renowned for her pioneering contributions, establishing nursing training programs in the

Florence Nightingale, OM (Order of Merit), RRC (Royal Red Cross) [May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910] was an English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence during the

Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and

Hildegard E. Peplau, EdD, RN, FAAN (September 1, 1909 – March 17, 1999), known as the "mother of psychiatric nursing," was a nursing theorist and one of the world's leading

Lydia Hall or Lydia Eloise Hall (1906-1969) was an innovator in nursing practice. She established and directed the Loeb Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx,