VIRGINIA HENDERSON Flashcards
VIRGINIA HENDERSON’S THEORY
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
“First lady of nursing”
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
First truly international nurse
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
Early advocate on the introduction of Psychiatric Nursing in the curriculum
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
Outstanding teacher as Teacher’s College Columbia University
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Care for those wounded during World War 1
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Born in Kansas City Missouri
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Author of several books in Nursing
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Educator and researcher
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Consistently stressed nursing’s duty to the patient rather than the doctor
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Died in March 19, 1996 at the age of 98
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Known as Nightingale of Modern Nursing
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Modern-day Mother of Nursing
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• 20th century Florence Nightingale
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Viewed patient as an individual requiring help towards achieving independence
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Envisioned practice of nursing as independent from practice of physicians
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Unique function is to assist the individual, sick or well in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
• Doing things for the patients that they would do for themselves if they could, that is if they were physically able or had the required knowledge
Nursing
• The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant
Nursing
• Knowledge and confidence for the mother, the mouthpiece for those too weak or withdrawn to speak and so on
Nursing
- Breathe normally
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Eat and drink adequately
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Eliminate body wastes
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Move and maintain desirable posture
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Sleep and rest
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Select suitable clothes
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Maintain body temperature within normal range
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Keep the body clean and well groomed
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Void dangers in the environment, avoid injuring others
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Communicate with others
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Worship according to one’s faith
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Work with sense of accomplishment
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Play, recreation
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- Learn and satisfy curiosity that leads to normal development and health
14 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
• Substitute for the patient
3 LEVELS OF NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN WHICH NURSE ACTS AS
• Helper to the patient
3 LEVELS OF NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN WHICH NURSE ACTS AS
• Partner with the patient
3 LEVELS OF NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN WHICH NURSE ACTS AS
• Nurse must get inside the skin of each patient in order to know what he needs
3 LEVELS OF NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN WHICH NURSE ACTS AS
• Nurse care for patients until patients can care for themselves once again
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
• Nurses are willing to serve
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
• Nurses should be educated at the university level
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
• Individual requiring assistance to achieve health and independence or peaceful death
Person
• Mind and body are inseparable
Person
• For a person to function to the utmost, he must be able to maintain physiological and emotional balance
Person
• All external conditions and influences that affect life and development
Environment
• It is the responsibility of the nurse to help the patient manage the surroundings to protect him from harm
Environment
• Equated with independence, viewed in terms of the client’s ability to perform 14 components of nursing care unaided
Health
• Health promotion is more important than caring for the sick
Health
• Assists and supports the individual in life activities and the attainment of independence
Nursing
• Promote treatment plan of the physician
Nursing
• Help both the sick and the well
Nursing
- Nurses function independently from physician
The Nurse Physician Relationship
- Nurses must work together in harmony, and interdependently
The Nurse as a Member of the H.C. Team
• Complex rather than simplistic
Simplicity
• Contain many variables and several descriptive and explanatory relationship
Simplicity
• The 14 basic needs has undergone several revisions to make it simple
Simplicity
• The definition provided are broad in scope
Generality
• They work in such a way that they cover all areas of nursing practice and could be applied in every setting
Generality
• Henderson’s perspective has been useful in promoting new ideas and in furthering conceptual development of emerging theories
Derivable Consequences
• Her theory is helpful in curriculum development, research in the clinical practice of nursing
Derivable Consequences
• It helps the nurses to help the patient move to an independent state by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating each of 14 components of basic nursing care
Practice
• It helps the nurses to help the patient perform activities to maintain health, to recover from illness or to aid in peaceful death.
Practice
• The book “Principles and practice of nursing” gives definition to nursing and this book has been used as a basic text in many schools of nursing
Nursing Education
• It gives curriculum for nursing
Nursing Education
• Her curriculum helps in structured learning experience which are goal directive
Nursing Education
• It helps the nurses in creative thinking
Nursing Education
• It gives a source for educational research
Nursing Research
• Her basic needs serve as a source for the nursing research
Nursing Research
• It helps formulate the questions in nursing research
Nursing Research