VIRGINIA HENDERSON Flashcards
VIRGINIA HENDERSON’S THEORY
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“First lady of nursing”
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First truly international nurse
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Early advocate on the introduction of Psychiatric Nursing in the curriculum
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Outstanding teacher as Teacher’s College Columbia University
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• Care for those wounded during World War 1
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• Born in Kansas City Missouri
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• Author of several books in Nursing
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• Educator and researcher
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• Consistently stressed nursing’s duty to the patient rather than the doctor
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• Died in March 19, 1996 at the age of 98
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• Known as Nightingale of Modern Nursing
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• Modern-day Mother of Nursing
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• 20th century Florence Nightingale
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• Viewed patient as an individual requiring help towards achieving independence
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• Envisioned practice of nursing as independent from practice of physicians
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• Unique function is to assist the individual, sick or well in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery
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• 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• Knowledge and confidence for the mother, the mouthpiece for those too weak or withdrawn to speak and so on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
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- Eat and drink adequately
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- Eliminate body wastes
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- Move and maintain desirable posture
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- Sleep and rest
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- Select suitable clothes
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- Maintain body temperature within normal range
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