Mary Seacole
A Jamaican British Nurse Who Provided Battlefield Care During The Crimean War Alongside Florence Nightingale.
Monthly Archives: February 2026
Linda Richards
Linda Richards
America First Trained Nurse And A Leader In Nursing Documentation And Education.
Edith Cavell
Edith Cavell
A British Nurse Executed In World War I For Helping Allied Soldiers Escape, Remembered For Her Bravery.
Susie King Taylor
Susie King Taylor
The First Black Army Nurse In The Civil War, Known For Treating Soldiers And Teaching Literacy.
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger
A Public Health Nurse And Birth Control Advocate Who Helped Establish Planned Parenthood.
Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge
A Nurse Midwife Who Founded The Frontier Nursing Service To Improve Rural Maternal Care.
Lillian Wald
Lillian Wald
A Public Health Nurse Who Founded The Henry Street Settlement And Advanced Community Nursing.
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger
A Nurse Anthropologist Who Founded Transcultural Nursing And The Theory Of Cultural Care.
Jean Watson
Jean Watson
A Nursing Theorist Known For The Theory Of Human Caring And Holistic Nursing.
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau
A Psychiatric Nurse And Theorist Known As The Mother Of Psychiatric Nursing.