Becoming A Nurse Flashcards
Who’s definition of nursing represented the emergence of contemporary nursing?
Virginia Henderson’s
Defining nursing is an important first step towards professional practice. How?
Provides framework
Establishes boundaries
Clarifies purpose
Differentiates nursing from other professions
Helped advance technologies available for nursing, influencing nursing and requiring changed definitions.
Post WWII
Defined nursing in interpersonal terms, reinforcing the idea of the patient as an active collaborator in his or her care.
Hildegard Peplau
Belief nurses should do for a person only those things a person cannot do without. (Patient should be self-helping)
Dorothea Orem.
INC adopted which definition and this definition had been widely accepted in US.
Henderson’s