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IHenderson
Virginia Henderson was born in Kansas City Missouri in 1894 she was one of eight children.
Henderson became interested in nursing during World War One, she enrolled in the Army School of Nursing in Washington and graduated in 1921.
Henderson has received numerous awards and accolades for her contribution to the Nursing profession. Although Henderson is regarded as a theorist it was never her intent to write a theory. ...
Henderson strived to find the answers to the following questions:
• What is the practice of Nursing? ... Henderson was greatly influenced by her own personal experiences during her education and nursing practice. Henderson’s analysis was a combination of positive and negative influences. ...
Henderson was not happy with this method, she thought that this kind of care was just an extension of medical practice. Henderson lacked a role model during her education, and her nursing experience was gained by caring for wounded soldiers during the war. ... In this environment the cut and dried approach to nursing was replaced with a more caring one, although Henderson believed that the lack of family involvement and failure to assess the home environment failed to properly identify the child’s needs. ... Henderson came to the realization that sending people back to the same environment that probably made them ill in the first place was not an ideal solution.
Henderson then took up a five year contract teaching nursing students, however she realized there was a need to gain more knowledge. ... She was then able to incorporate her own ideas in her medical-surgical courses, which were,
• Patient centred approach
• Use of the nursing problem replacing the medical model
• Importance placed on practical experience for students
• Family follow-up care
• Chronic illness care
Henderson knew that for a nurse to successfully meet the needs of a patient they needed to be educated in both biological and social sciences.
Approximate Word count = 1418
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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