- Virginia Henderson
Virginia Avenel Henderson (
November 30 1897 –March 19 1996 ) was an Americannurse , researcher, theorist, and author.She was born in
Kansas City, Missouri , the fifth of eight children of Lucy Abbot Henderson and Daniel B. Henderson and a descendant of a long line of scholars and educators. She graduated from the Army School of Nursing,Washington, D.C. in 1921. She is part of the "Columbia school" of nursing theory, having graduated from Teachers College,Columbia University with a M.A. degree in nursing education.Henderson is famous for a definition of
nursing : "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge" [Henderson, V. (1966) "The Nature of Nursing". New York:Macmillan Publishing . p.15.] .The
International Council of Nurses presented her with the firstChristianne Reimann Prize in June 1985.She died at the Connecticut Hospice, aged 98. She is buried in the family plot of the churchyard of St. Stephen's Church, Forest,
Bedford County, Virginia .References
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External links
* [http://www.nursinglibrary.org/portal/main.aspx?PageID=4017 Biography]
* [http://www.nursinglibrary.org Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library]
* [http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/special/gencoll/coll/mss051.html Sigma Theta Tau International Archives]
* [http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/speccoll/vnfame/henderson.html Virginia Henderson in the Virginia Nursing Hall of Fame]
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