Carl O. Helvie
1932 - 2019 (87 years)
Carl O. Helvie was an American registered nurse and Professor Emeritus of Nursing at Old Dominion University. Helvie is known for his development and implementation of the Helvie Energy Theory of Nursing and Health.
Go to ProfileCallista Roy
1939 - Present (83 years)
Sister Callista Roy, CSJ is an American nun, nursing theorist, professor and author. She is known for creating the adaptation model of nursing. She was a nursing professor at Boston College before retiring in 2017. Roy was designated as a 2007 Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing.
Go to ProfileJean Watson
1940 - Present (82 years)
Jean Watson is an American nurse theorist and nursing professor who is best known for her theory of human caring. She is the author of numerous texts, including Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring. Watson's research on caring has been incorporated into education and patient care at hundreds of nursing schools and healthcare facilities across the world.
Go to ProfileLauren Underwood
1986 - Present (36 years)
Lauren Ashley Underwood is an American politician and registered nurse who is a U.S. representative from Illinois's 14th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party. Her district, once represented by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, includes the outer western suburbs of Chicago, including Crystal Lake, Geneva, Oswego, Woodstock, and Yorkville.
Go to ProfileFaye Glenn Abdellah
1919 - 2017 (98 years)
Faye Glenn Abdellah was an American pioneer in nursing research. Abdellah was the first nurse and woman to serve as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States. Preceding her appointment, she served in active duty during the Korean War, where she earned a distinguished ranking equivalent to a Navy Rear Admiral, making her the highest ranked woman and nurse in the Federal Nursing Services at the time. In addition to these achievements, Abdellah led the formation of the National Institute of Nursing Research at the NIH, and was the founder and first dean of the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences .
Go to ProfileKatharine Kolcaba
1944 - Present (78 years)
Katharine Kolcaba is an American nursing theorist and nursing professor. Dr. Kolcaba is responsible for the Theory of Comfort, a broad-scope mid-range nursing theory commonly implemented throughout the nursing field up to the institutional level.
Go to ProfileMarjory Gordon
1931 - 2015 (84 years)
Marjory Gordon was a nursing theorist and professor who created a nursing assessment theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns. Gordon served in 1973 as the first president of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association until 1988. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing beginning in 1977 and was designated a Living Legend by the same organization in 2009.
Go to ProfileAnn Burgess
1936 - Present (86 years)
Ann C. Wolbert Burgess is a researcher whose work has focused on developing ways to assess and treat trauma in rape victims. She is a professor at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College.
Go to ProfileMadeleine Leininger
1925 - 2012 (87 years)
Madeleine Leininger was a nursing theorist, nursing professor and developer of the concept of transcultural nursing. First published in 1961, her contributions to nursing theory involve the discussion of what it is to care.
Go to ProfilePatricia Flatley Brennan
1953 - Present (69 years)
Patricia Flatley Brennan is the director of the National Library of Medicine. Prior to that, she was the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Brennan received a master of science in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She served as chair of University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering's Department of Industrial Engineering from 2007 to 2010.
Go to ProfileCicely Saunders
1918 - 2005 (87 years)
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.
Go to ProfileCharles Cullen
1960 - Present (62 years)
Charles Edmund Cullen is an American serial killer who confessed to murdering up to 40 patients during the course of his 16-year career as a nurse in New Jersey. However, in subsequent interviews with police, psychiatrists, and journalists, it became apparent that he had killed many more, whom he could not specifically remember by name, though he could often remember details of their murders. Experts have estimated that Cullen may ultimately be responsible for 400 deaths, which would make him the most prolific serial killer in recorded history. He has only 29 confirmed victims.
Go to ProfileDorothea Orem
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, DC. 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.
Go to ProfileHalyna Kolotnytska
1972 - Present (50 years)
Galyna Kolotnytska is a Libyan-Ukrainian nurse and a former member of her country's Antarctic research mission. She is mostly known for her close association with former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Go to ProfileLauren Drain
1985 - Present (37 years)
Lauren Danielle Drain is a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church who wrote the 2013 book Banished, which chronicles her experiences and eventual banishment from the church. Early life Drain was born in Tampa, Florida and lived in nearby Bradenton until age five, when she moved to Olathe, Kansas, with her father, Steve, who enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Kansas.
Go to ProfileLucile Randon
1904 - Present (118 years)
Lucile Randon , also known as Sister André, is a French supercentenarian and nun, who at the age of , is the world's second-oldest verified living person, behind Kane Tanaka. She additionally holds the titles of fourth-oldest verified person, second-oldest French person, and the second-oldest verified person in Europe. Randon was born to a non religious protestant family, but converted to Catholicism as a young adult. She worked as a governess, teacher, and missionary before retiring at the age of 75. She currently resides in a nursing home at Toulon, France. In addition to her longevity, she...
Go to ProfileGeorge Castledine, FRCN was a British nursing educator and nursing consultant. George Castledine won a scholarship to Oxford University, later attending Liverpool University. He worked as a staff nurse before relocating to the Manchester Royal Infirmary to be charge nurse in a trauma unit as well as lecturer. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing from 1980.
Go to ProfileIan Norman
1952 - Present (70 years)
Ian James Norman is a British nursing researcher and author, based in Surrey, UK. His research and writing is focused primarily in the fields of psychiatric and mental health nursing, and psychological treatments for people with mental health difficulties. Norman is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King's College London. He is a former Executive Dean of Faculty and Assistant Principal at King's. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Nursing Studies. and a practising cognitive behavioural psychotherapist.
Go to ProfileRobin Quivers
1952 - Present (70 years)
Robin Ophelia Quivers is an American radio personality, author, and actress, best known for being the long-running co-host of The Howard Stern Show. Early life Quivers was born on August 8, 1952, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Lula Louise Quivers, a homemaker and housekeeper, and Charles Quivers Sr., a steelworker at Bethlehem Steel. She has an older brother, Charles Jr., and two adopted brothers, Harry and Howard. Both parents were educated only to the seventh grade. In her 1995 autobiography, Quivers revealed that she was molested by her father at a young age. At seventeen, Quivers enrolled at a pre-nursing program at Maryland General Hospital.
Go to ProfileThomas Ahrens is an American nurse, researcher, and educator at Barnes-Jewish Hospital specializing in critical-care nursing. Education Ahrens graduated from Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis with a PhD in physiology and nursing in 1987.
Go to ProfileRichard Carmona
1949 - Present (73 years)
Richard Henry Carmona is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. After leaving office, Carmona was highly critical of the Bush administration for suppressing scientific findings which conflicted with the Administration's ideological agenda.
Go to ProfilePatricia Benner
1942 - Present (80 years)
Patricia Sawyer Benner is a nursing theorist, academic and author. She is known for one of her books, From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice . Benner described the stages of learning and skill acquisition across the careers of nurses, applying the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition to nursing practice. Benner is a professor emerita at the University of California, San Francisco UCSF School of Nursing.
Go to ProfileColin Norris
1976 - Present (46 years)
Colin Norris is a former nurse and serial killer from the Milton area of Glasgow, Scotland, who was found guilty of murdering four elderly patients and attempting to murder another, in two hospitals in Leeds, England in 2002. He was sentenced in 2008 to serve a minimum of 30 years in prison.
Go to ProfilePatricia Horoho
1960 - Present (62 years)
Patricia D. Horoho Early life and education Horoho was born in Fort Bragg on March 21, 1960, and attended St. Ann Catholic School and St. Patrick Catholic School in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She graduated from E.E. Smith High School in 1978. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982 and the Master of Science as a Clinical Trauma Nurse Specialist from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992.
Go to ProfileRachel Robinson
1922 - Present (100 years)
Rachel Robinson is an American former professor and registered nurse, as well as the widow of professional baseball player Jackie Robinson. Life and work She was born in New York City and attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met Robinson in 1941 prior to his leaving UCLA when his baseball eligibility ran out. She graduated from UCLA June 1, 1945, with a bachelor's degree in nursing. Rachel and Robinson married on February 10, 1946, the year before he broke into the big leagues. They had three children: Jackie, Jr. , Sharon , and David .
Go to ProfileLoretta Ford
1920 - Present (102 years)
Loretta C. Ford is an American nurse and the co-founder of the first nurse practitioner program. Along with pediatrician Henry Silver, Ford started the pediatric nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado in 1965. In 1972, Ford joined the University of Rochester as founding dean of the nursing school.
Go to ProfileAïcha Chenna
1941 - Present (81 years)
Aïcha Chenna is a Moroccan social worker and women's rights advocate and activist. A registered nurse, she began working with disadvantaged women as an employee of the country's Ministry of Health. In 1985, she founded the Association Solidarité Féminine , a Casablanca-based charity that assists single mothers and victims of abuse. Chenna has received various humanitarian awards for her work, including the 2009 Opus Prize .
Go to ProfileSineenat
1985 - Present (37 years)
Niramon Ounprom is an army officer, member of the Thai royal court, and a former Thai nurse. She was named concubine and a long-time mistress of Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn of Thailand, who granted her several military ranks and positions, including the noble name of Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi . After Prince Vajiralongkorn ascended the throne as King Rama X, he appointed her as his Royal Noble Consort, giving her the noble title of Chao Khun Phra Sineenat Bilaskalayani in July 2019. She is the first woman to hold the title of a royal concubine of the King of Thailand in almost a century as pre...
Go to ProfileFlorence Wald
1917 - 2008 (91 years)
Florence Wald was an American nurse, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, and largely credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement". She led the founding of Connecticut Hospice, the first hospice program in the United States. Late in life, Wald became interested in the provision of hospice care within prisons. In 1998, Wald was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Go to ProfileSue Johanson
1930 - Present (92 years)
Sue Johanson is a Canadian writer, public speaker, registered nurse, sex educator, and media personality. Biography Early life and career Johanson was born Susan Powell in Toronto, Ontario, to Wilfrid Powell, a decorated British war hero, and an affluent Ontario-born Irish Protestant mother, Ethel Bell. Her great-uncle was Lord Baden-Powell. Her mother died when Johanson was ten. Johanson attended nursing school in St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, graduating as a registered nurse. Soon after, she married a Swedish-Canadian electrician named Ejnor Johanson. They had three children: Carol, Eric and Jane.
Go to ProfileMichele McDonald
1952 - 2020 (68 years)
Michele Marlene McDonald-Boeke was an American model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1971. As Miss USA, she represented the United States at Miss Universe 1971, where she placed in the top twelve. McDonald had previously been crowned Miss Pennsylvania USA 1971, and was the first woman from Pennsylvania to win the Miss USA title.
Go to ProfileAlex Wubbels
1976 - Present (46 years)
Alexandra Luise Wubbels is an American nurse and former Olympian. As an alpine ski competitor, she was the national champion in both the Slalom and Giant Slalom in 1999, and competed in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics as Alex Shaffer.
Go to ProfileMerry Elisabeth Scheel
1929 - 2007 (78 years)
Merry Elisabeth Scheel was one of Denmark's most prominent nursing theorists. She received several degrees in her life, including a nursing degree in 1960, and a PhD in 2003. For many years, she was an active writer, especially around the ethical and philosophical aspects of the nursing profession.
Go to ProfileAlison Joan Tierney is a British nursing theorist, nurse researcher and former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. Tierney was one of the first graduates of the Integrated Degree/Nursing programme at The University of Edinburgh. In 2018 she was named as one of 70 of the most influential nurses in the 70 years of the NHS .
Go to ProfileRoger Watson
1955 - Present (67 years)
Roger Watson is a British academic. He is currently Academic Dean in the School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China and until 2022 was the Professor of Nursing at the University of Hull. He is the editor-in-chief of Nurse Education in Practice and an Editorial Board Member of the WikiJournal of Medicine. Watson was the Founding Chair of the Lancet Commission on Nursing, and a founding member of the Global Advisory Group for the Future of Nursing. Watson was elected Vice President of the National Conference of University Professors in 2020 and became President in 2022 until 2024.
Go to ProfileSir Jonathan Elliott Asbridge is an English nurse who was the first president of the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council and a registrant member for England . His first introduction to the caring profession was as a St John Ambulance Cadet at Cardiff Castle Division, Cardiff, South Wales. He studied to be a state registered nurse at the Nightingale School, St Thomas' Hospital, London, and gained a diploma in nursing at Swansea University. He began his career as a staff nurse and charge nurse in critical care, then senior nurse an in-patient manager at Singleton Hospital in 1983 before moving to...
Go to ProfileThe ancient Egyptian noble Sitre In was buried in the Valley of the Kings, in tomb KV60. She has been identified as the nurse of Hatshepsut. A life-sized statue of her holding Hatshepsut is inscribed with her charge, which is repeated on an ostrakon now in Vienna. Although not a member of the royal family, she received the honour of a burial in the royal necropolis. Her coffin has the inscription wr šdt nfrw nswt In, identifying her as the Great Royal Wet Nurse In.
Go to ProfileMarie Manthey
1935 - Present (87 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."
Go to ProfileLuther Christman
1915 - 2011 (96 years)
Luther Parmalee Christman was an American nurse, professor of nursing, university administrator and advocate for gender and racial diversity in nursing. His career included service with the Michigan Department of Mental Health and academic posts at the University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University and Rush University. In 1967, Christman became the first man to hold the position of dean at a nursing school.
Go to ProfileJudith Shamian was the president of the International Council of NursesVON She was also vice president of Nursing at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and has also served in consulting, expert advisory, and research oriented positions in nursing. Furthermore, she is a professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. Her international consulting assignments include work in China, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Hungary, the United States, Israel, and, Botswana at the University of Botswana
Go to ProfileTom Willmott
1960 - Present (62 years)
Thomas Phillip Willmott, known as Tom Willmott , is an attorney and registered nurse from Kenner, Louisiana, who is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 92 in Jefferson Parish in the New Orleans suburbs. In 2016, Willmott was elected to the Kenner City Council.
Go to ProfileJuanita Broaddrick
1942 - Present (80 years)
Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator. She was allegedly raped by U.S. President Bill Clinton on April 25, 1978 when he was the Attorney General of Arkansas. Clinton's attorney, David Kendall, stated it never happened on his client's behalf, and Clinton declined to comment further on the issue.
Go to ProfileKristine Gebbie
1943 - Present (79 years)
Kristine Moore Gebbie is an American academic and public health official working as a professor at the Flinders University School of Nursing & Midwifery in Adelaide, Australia. Gebbie previously served as the AIDS Policy Coordinator from 1993 to 1994.
Go to ProfileAfaf Meleis
1942 - Present (80 years)
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis is an Egyptian-American nurse-scientist, researcher, and medical sociologist. She is a Professor of Nursing and Sociology and Dean Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served from 2002 through 2014. This followed her 34-year tenure as a nursing faculty professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Francisco .
Go to ProfileRenee Ellmers
1964 - Present (58 years)
Renee Jacisin Ellmers is an American registered nurse and politician who was the U.S. representative for from 2011 to 2017. She is a member of the Republican Party. Ellmers defeated seven-term Democratic incumbent Bob Etheridge in 2010 by 1,489 votes, confirmed after a recount. In the 2016 Republican primary, Ellmers was defeated by fellow U.S. Representative George Holding. She is running in the 2022 election in North Carolina's 4th congressional district.
Go to ProfileAbasse Ndione
1946 - Present (76 years)
Abasse Ndione is a Senegalese author and nurse. Life Ndione was born 16 December 1946 in the village of Bargny, close to Dakar, the son of a shopkeeper. He attended the local Koranic school at first; then, with pressure from his father, he and his brother attended French school. He studied nursing and got his first job in 1966, staying in this profession until his retirement. In 1968 he married Meriem, a teacher; they have seven children. He lives in Rufisque, a fishing town about 20 kilometers from Dakar. The New African said of him, "It would be safe to bet that Abasse Ndione has seldom earned more than a pittance from any publisher.
Go to ProfileStephan Letter
1978 - Present (44 years)
Stephan Letter is a German serial killer and former nurse responsible for the murder of at least 29 patients while he worked at a hospital in Sonthofen, Bavaria between January 2003 and July 2004. His murders have been described as Germany's largest number of killings since World War II.
Go to ProfileDiane Black
1951 - Present (71 years)
Diane Lynn Black is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative for from January 3, 2011 to January 3, 2019. The district includes several suburban and rural areas east of Nashville. A Republican, she was previously elected to the Tennessee Senate, serving as floor leader of the Republican Caucus. She unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination in the 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election.
Go to ProfileGed Kearney
1963 - Present (59 years)
Gerardine Mary "Ged" Kearney is an Australian politician and trade unionist. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since March 2018, representing the Division of Batman and later the Division of Cooper for the Labor Party. She was previously president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 2010 to 2018.
Go to ProfileAnne Marie Rafferty
1958 - Present (64 years)
Dame Anne Marie Rafferty FRCN is a British nurse, academic and researcher. She is professor of nursing policy and former dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's College London. She served as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 2019 to 2021.
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