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Virginia Avenel Henderson (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and writer. [1]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 ...
Nursing theory is defined as "a creative and conscientious structuring of ideas that project a tentative, purposeful, and systematic view of phenomena". [1] Through systematic inquiry, whether in nursing research or practice, nurses are able to develop knowledge relevant to improving the care of patients.
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First developed in 1980, [2] this model is based upon work by Nancy Roper in 1976. It is the most widely used nursing model in the United Kingdom. The model is based loosely upon the activities of daily living that evolved from the work of Virginia Henderson in 1966.
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Bertha Harmer (2 March 1885 – 14 December 1934) was a Canadian nurse, writer and educator, known for writing the textbook Textbook of the Principles and Practice of Nursing.
Henderson was born enslaved in Clarke County, Virginia, on November 11, 1850.He was the son of George Vincent Henderson (b. 1828) and Harriet A. (Macy) Henderson. [3] He became the servant of a Vermont Infantry officer, possibly Zephaniah Carpenter, and moved with him to Underhill, Vermont after the Civil War.
Poto and Cabengo (names given, respectively, by Grace and Virginia Kennedy to themselves) are American identical twins who used an invented language until the age of about eight. The girls were apparently of normal intelligence. They developed their own communication as they had little exposure to spoken language in their early years. Poto and ...