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List of the most influential female people in Nursing,

#101

Elizabeth Sharp

#73693

Overall Influence

1933 - 2016 (83 years)

Elizabeth Sager Sharp CNM, DrPH, FAAN, FACNM, was an American nurse and midwife who specialized in maternal and newborn health. In 1999, she received the American College of Nurse-Midwives' Hattie Hemschemeyer Award.

#102

Kathi Mooney

#76361

Overall Influence

Kathleen B. Mooney PhD, RN, FAAN is an American scientist, currently the Louis S. Peery and Janet B. Peery Presidential Endowed Chair in Nursing and Distinguished Professor of Nursing at the University of Utah. She is one of two co-leaders of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Her research focuses on palliative care symptom management for cancer patients and their family caregivers, clinical cancer outcomes, and technology aided interventions and telehealth.

#103

Jeanne Novotny

#158661

Overall Influence

Jeanne Novotny is Dean and Professor at the Fairfield University School of Nursing located in Fairfield, Connecticut. Novotny was named a 2002 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in recognition of her outstanding contributions to nursing. She received two Book of the Year Awards from the American Journal of Nursing for Distance Education in Nursing and The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Nursing .

#104

Margaret P. Moss

#111943

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Margaret P. Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN, an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes is Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion/Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo, School of Nursing. She is the first and only American Indian to hold both nursing and juris doctorates. As a RWJF Health Policy Fellow she staffed the US Senate Special Committee on Aging and was lead staff on the now enacted National Alzheimer's Project Act. Moss recently published the first nursing textbook on American Indian health , which won AJN Book of the Year in 2016.

#105

Nicole Letourneau

Nicole Letourneau

#41201

Overall Influence

Nicole Lyn Letourneau is a Canadian professor and researcher. She is a Research Chair in Parent and Child Mental Health at the University of Calgary. Formerly she held the Alberta Children's Hospital Chair and Norlien Foundation Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health and Canada Research Chair in Healthy Child Development . She currently serves as the director of the RESOLVE Alberta and principal investigator for the CHILD Studies Program at Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute. She has written over 210 peer-reviewed publications; authored the books, Parenting and Child Development: ...

#106

Nicolette Fay Sheridan

Nicolette Fay Sheridan

#56375

Overall Influence

Nicolette Fay Sheridan is a New Zealand nursing academic of Ngāpuhi descent, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Massey University. Academic career After a 2005 PhD titled 'Mapping a new future: Primary Health Care Nursing in New Zealand' at the University of Auckland, Sheridan moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor.

#107

Megan-Jane Johnstone

#97172

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Megan-Jane Johnstone is a nursing scholar and contemporary artist. She is the author of Bioethics: a nursing perspective, first published in 1989 and released as an 8th revised edition in 2023, and invited curating editor of Nursing Ethics, a three volume Sage major reference publication. Other books by Johnstone include: Nursing and the injustices of the law; Ethics in nursing practice: a guide to ethical decision making ; Alzheimers disease, media representations and the politics of euthanaisa: constructing risk and selling death in an ageing society; Effective writing for health profession...

#108

Sarah Szanton

#167801

Overall Influence

Sarah Loeb Szanton is an American nurse practitioner who focuses on geriatric nursing research. , she is the Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Early life and education Szanton completed her Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 1988 and her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She left JHU to attend the University of Maryland for her Masters of Science in Nursing in 1998 before returning to JHU for her PhD.

#109

Carol Fowler Durham

#71675

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Carol Fowler Durham is an American Clinical Professor of Nursing and Doctor of Education who is known as a leader in the fields of Healthcare Quality and Safety, nursing education, interprofessional education, and medical simulation.

#110

Elizabeth Ngugi

Elizabeth Ngugi

#81877

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Ngugi was a Kenyan Professor of Community Health at the University of Nairobi, and a nurse by trade. Her major contributions to her university's program was her research and work with local prostitutes to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission. Ngugi is described as the first Kenyan nurse to become a professor.

#111

Elizabeth J. Corwin

#155320

Overall Influence

Elizabeth J. Corwin is an American nurse scientist and family nurse practitioner. She is the Anna C. Maxwell Professor of Nursing Research and Vice Dean of Strategic and Innovative Research at Columbia University School of Nursing. Corwin previously held the Edith F. Honeycutt Chair in Nursing at Emory University.

#112

Elizabeth Anionwu

#115674

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Dame Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu is a British nurse, health care administrator, lecturer, and Emeritus Professor of Nursing at the University of West London. In 1979, Anionwu became the United Kingdom's first sickle-cell and thalassemia nurse specialist, helping establish the Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Counselling centre with consultant haematologist Milica Brozovic. In 1998, by then a Professor of Nursing, Anionwu created the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice at the University of West London. She holds the Order of Merit, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing .

#113

Linda McCauley

#124356

Overall Influence

Linda A. McCauley is an American scientist and academic administrator. She is dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. She was a professor of nursing and associate dean of research at University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

#114

Mary Woody

#157109

Overall Influence

1926 - 2010 (84 years)

Mary Florence Woody was an American nurse, hospital administrator and university professor. She worked as a director of nursing at two large hospitals and was a nursing school dean or associate dean at Auburn University and Emory University. She was designated a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing.

#115

Myrtle Aydelotte

#104175

Overall Influence

1917 - 2010 (93 years)

Myrtle Elizabeth Kitchell "Kitch" Aydelotte was an American nurse, professor and hospital administrator. She served as CEO of the American Nurses Association, director of nursing for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the first dean of the school's nursing program. She was the first female academic dean at Iowa. Aydelotte was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1976 and was designated a Living Legend by the same organization in 1994.

#116

Gina Higginbottom

#146919

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Gina Marie Higginbottom is a British academic, nurse, midwife, health visitor and a specialist in international migration and maternity. She is the first nurse of black and minority ethnic origin to hold a professorial role in a Russell Group university in England.

#117

Sarah Hewlett

#153343

Overall Influence

Sarah Elizabeth Hewlett is an emeritus Professor of Rheumatology Nursing at the University of the West of England and expert on rheumatoid arthritis . She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours.

#118

Ann Kurth

#170155

Overall Influence

Ann Elizabeth Kurth, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN, FACNM is President of The New York Academy of Medicine , a leading nonprofit organization focused on health equity; she is the first epidemiologist to lead NYAM in its 176-year history. Previously she was the dean and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor at Yale School of Nursing . She is a fellow of the National Academy of Medicine and was a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. She is an expert in global health and HIV with work funded by the National Institutes of Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CDC, and others, for studies in the US and internationally.

#119

Jill Maben

#170571

Overall Influence

Jill Elizabeth Maben OBE is a British nurse and academic. She is currently professor of health services research and nursing at the University of Surrey and visiting professor of nursing at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia.

#120

Eleanor Holroyd

#175114

Overall Influence

Eleanor Anne Holroyd is a New Zealand nursing academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a 1998 PhD at titled 'Chinese family caregivers : dilemmas at the extremity of public and private obligations' at the University of Hong Kong, she returned to New Zealand and the Auckland University of Technology , as full professor.

#121

Jennifer Loud

#45547

Overall Influence

Jennifer T. Loud is an American nurse practitioner who served as the assistant chief of the National Cancer Institute's clinical genetics branch until August 2020. Life Loud received a B.S. in Nursing from Old Dominion University in 1981, an M.S. in Nursing from George Mason University in 1992, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2008.

#122

Rosmarie Frick

#124595

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Rosmarie Frick is a Swiss nurse and lecturer of a microsurgery course at the University Hospital of Zürich. Early life and education Frick was born in Bazenheid. She was the daughter of peasants in Oberbüren, and decided to become a nurse when her parents were forced to sell their farm. She studied nursing at the Viktoria-Hospital in Bern, completing her placement at the Hospital at Flawil. This was a time of rising interest in neurosurgery in Zürich and, notably, Gazi Yaşargil performed such surgery to treat the cerebral vessels of a stroke sufferer.

#123

Monica McLemore

#128450

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Monica Rose McLemore is an American nurse who is an associate professor of Family Health Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. Her work considers reproductive justice and medical care for marginalised communities, with an overarching aim to eliminate healthcare inequalities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, McLemore studied the impact of coronavirus disease during pregnancy.

#124

Linda Bullock

#163027

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Linda Faye Clark Bullock is an American professor of nursing. Education Bullock received a bachelor's and master's degree in nursing from Texas Woman's University. She completed a doctor of philosophy in public health at University of Otago.

#125

Alma S. Woolley

Alma S. Woolley

#76855

Overall Influence

1931 - 2005 (74 years)

Alma S. Woolley was an American nurse, nurse educator, nursing historian, and author. She led several schools of nursing, and authored a number of books and articles on nursing education, the history of nursing education, and nurses.

#126

Jenny Carryer

#173749

Overall Influence

Jennifer Barbara Carryer is a New Zealand nursing academic. She is currently a full professor of nursing at the Massey University and executive director of the New Zealand College of Nurses. Academic career Carryer completed a PhD at Massey University in 1997, before joining the staff and rising to full professor in 2011. Her thesis was titled 'A feminist appraisal of the experience of embodied largeness: a challenge for nursing . Her research interests are nurse practitioners, chronic illness, obesity and gender.

#127

Mona Shattell

#151905

Overall Influence

Mona Shattell is an American professor of nursing. She is best known for her contributions to improving the mental health of vulnerable populations , developing psychiatric treatment environments, and promoting the voice of nursing in public dialogue.

#128

Ann Kolanowski

#175096

Overall Influence

Ann Marie Kolanowski is an American nurse. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from College Misericordia, followed by a master's degree at Pennsylvania State University and a doctorate from New York University. Kolanowski began teaching at Mercy Hospital and subsequently Luzerne County Community College prior to taking a tenured position at Wilkes College. She then joined the Medical College of Georgia faculty and later returned to Penn State, where she was appointed Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing in 2007.

#129

Donna M. Fick

#177136

Overall Influence

Donna Marie Fick is an American nurse. She obtained a bachelor's degree in nursing science at Berea College before earning a master's degree from the University of Cincinnati. Subsequently, Fick completed a doctorate at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing at Pennsylvania State University and editor of the Journal of Gerontological Nursing.

#130

Dorothea Orem

#167464

Overall Influence

1914 - 2007 (93 years)

Dorothea Elizabeth Orem , born in Baltimore, Maryland, was a nursing theorist and creator of the self-care deficit nursing theory, also known as the Orem model of nursing. Education Orem received a nursing diploma from Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C. She also attended Catholic University of America, earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education in 1939 and a Master of Science in Nursing Education in 1945.

#131

Susan J. Pressler

#177923

Overall Influence

Susan J. Pressler is an American cardiovascular researcher and nurse. She is the Susan Rearhard Endowed Chair in Nursing and Director of the Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic Illness at the Indiana University School of Nursing.

#132

Deborah Watkins Bruner

#178501

Overall Influence

Deborah Watkins Bruner is an American researcher, clinical trialist, and academic. She is the senior vice president for research at Emory University. Her research focus is on patient reported outcomes, symptom management across cancer sites, sexuality after cancer treatment, and effectiveness of radiotherapy modalities. Bruner's research has been continually funding since 1998, with total funding of her research exceeding $180 million. She is ranked among the top five percent of all National Institutes of Health-funded investigators worldwide since 2012, according to the Blue Ridge Institute...

#133

Ruth Malone

#102093

Overall Influence

Ruth E. Malone is an American tobacco control researcher and policy analyst. She is professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She was the editor-in-chief of Tobacco Control from 2009 to 2023. She holds the Mary Harms/Nursing Alumni Endowed Chair.

#134

Marion Jones

#179428

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

E Marion Jones is a New Zealand nursing academic. As of September 2018 she is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a 1993 Masters' titled 'Shaping nursing praxis: some registered nurses' perceptions and beliefs of theory practice' from Massey University and a 2001 PhD titled 'Shaping team practice in the context of health reform opportunities, tensions, benefits' at Flinders University of South Australia, Jones moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor. Notable students include Judith McAra-Couper.

#135

Wendy Henderson

#169550

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Wendy A. Henderson is an American nurse practitioner, scientist, and academic administrator working as the director of the Center of Nursing Scholarship and Innovation at the University of Connecticut. She was previously a clinical investigator and lab chief of the National Institute of Nursing Research digestive disorders unit. Henderson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

#136

Uduak Archibong

#168511

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Uduak Emmanuel Archibong is a Professor of Diversity and Director of the Centre for Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Bradford. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and a Fellow of the West African College of Nursing.

#137

Jacquelyn Taylor

#113176

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Jacquelyn Taylor is the Helen F. Petit Endowed Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing , where she is also the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Research on People of Color . Dr. Taylor is also the Founding Executive Director of the Kathleen Hickey Endowed Lectureship on Cardiovascular Care, the first endowed lectureship honoring a nurse scientist at Columbia University. Additionally, Dr. Taylor holds an administrative role as Senior Advisor to the Chair of the Division of Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Taylor has been a trailblazer in ...

#138

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

#167344

Overall Influence

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown, CBE, MPhil, BA, RN, RM, DN , Cert Ed is a British nurse and researcher. She was president of the Royal College of Nursing . In July 2004, then-Minister for Health, John Hutton MP, launched a strategy for integrating refugee nurses into the health and social care workforce. The strategy was developed by the Refugee Nurses Task Force which she chaired. Hakesley-Brown was Special Education Projects Manager at the University of Glamorgan.

#139

Donna Schwartz-Barcott

#138070

Overall Influence

Donna Schwartz-Barcott is an American nurse and anthropologist. She is a professor of nursing at University of Rhode Island. Schwartz-Barcott earned a B.S. in nursing from University of Washington. She completed an M.S. in public health and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her 1978 dissertation was titled National family planning programs in developing nations: a theoretical and empirical examination of the adoption process. She is married to T. P. Barcott. They have a son, Rye Barcott.

#140

Rose Clarke Nanyonga

#168739

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Rose Clarke Nanyonga, , , is a Ugandan nurse, academic and current Vice Chancellor of Clarke International University, a private institution of higher education in Uganda. Background and education She was born in Bamunanika, in Luweero District, Buganda Region of Uganda, circa 1972. In 1989, after attending local primary schools, she migrated to Kiwoko, in present-day Nakaseke District, approximately to the north-west of Bamunanika.

#141

Jane Koziol-McLain

#181452

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Jane Koziol-McLain is an American-New Zealand nursing academic, specialising in domestic violence. She is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After an undergraduate at Loyola University in Chicago, Koziol-McLain did a 1989 MSc titled 'Variations in orthostatic vital signs in selected emergency department patients and then a 1999 PhD at the University of Colorado. After a post-doc fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, she moved to Auckland University of Technology, where she rose to professor in 2008.

#142

Rozella M. Schlotfeldt

#180088

Overall Influence

1914 - 2005 (91 years)

Rozella May Schlotfeldt was an American nurse, educator, and researcher. Originally from DeWitt, Iowa, Schlotfeldt received her BS in nursing from the University of Iowa in 1935. She continued her studies at the University of Chicago in 1947 before becoming the dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in 1960.

#143

Annette O'Connor

#115006

Overall Influence

Annette Marie Cormier O'Connor is a distinguished professor and professor emerita at the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Consumer Decision Support and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2018.

#144

Deborah Gross

#177454

Overall Influence

Deborah Gross is an American professor of nursing. She is best known for her contributions to improving positive parent-child relationships and preventing behavior problems in preschool children from low-income neighborhoods

#145

Marie Manthey

#179667

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Marie Schuber Manthey is an American nurse, author, and entrepreneur. She is recognized as one of the originators of Primary Nursing, an innovative system of nursing care delivery. Manthey was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing in 2015. The Living Legends designation honors individuals with "extraordinary contributions to the nursing profession, sustained over the course of their careers."

#146

Geraldine "Polly" Bednash

#176210

Overall Influence

Geraldine "Polly" Bednash is an American nurse practitioner. She is the former chief executive officer of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and former head of the association's legislative and regulatory advocacy programs as director of government affairs.

#147

Antonia M. Villarruel

#177699

Overall Influence

Antonia M. Villarruel is an American nurse. She has served as the Margaret Simon Bond Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing since 2014. Early life and education Villarruel was born into a Mexican–American family. Her grandparents had come to the United States and began their family in Michigan. Her mother Doña Amalia was a Detroit-born Mexican American while her father, Don Francisco, immigrated from Mexico at the age of 16. Her parents limited her career choice to teaching and nursing—with Villarruel choosing the latter. As such, she completed her Bachelor of Nursing degree from Nazareth College before working at the Children's Hospital of Michigan.

#148

Herdís Sveinsdóttir

Herdís Sveinsdóttir

#181463

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Herdís Sveinsdóttir is a professor in nursing and dean at the Faculty of Nursing of the University of Iceland. Professional experience Herdís completed a BS in nursing from the University of Iceland in 1981, a master's from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, in 1987 and a doctorate from the University of Umeå, Sweden, in 2000. Herdís began working at the University of Iceland in 1987 and is now a professor and dean at the Faculty of Nursing. In parallel with her work at the university, she was a registered nurse at the National University Hospital of Iceland from 1987 to 1...

#149

Tener Goodwin Veenema

#175621

Overall Influence

Tener Goodwin Veenema is an American nurse and a public health scientist. She is a Senior Scientist in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. In 2021, Goodwin Veenema was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.

#150

Ginette Gosselin Ferszt

#176195

Overall Influence

Ginette Gosselin Ferszt is an American nurse. She is a professor of nursing and the coordinator of the graduate psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist program at University of Rhode Island.

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