Question

reflection paper . 550 words

nursing theorist :

Virginia Henderson

Date: Name: Section REFLECTION PAPER- SJD WORDS NURSING THEORIST - VIRGINIA HEUDERVON

Answer 1

Ans) The theorists I can relate to is Verginia Henderson because she stressed the care for people who or sick or well that will aid them in wellness. I love how she mentions that nursing is not all about caring for the sick.

- Virginia Avenel Henderson, (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an influential nurse, researcher, theorist and author.

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's theory stresses the priority of patient self-determination so the patient will continue doing well after being released from the hospital. Henderson characterized the nurse's role as substitutive, which the nurse does for the patient; supplementary, which is helping the patient; or complementary, which is engaging with the patient to do something. The role of the nurse helps the patient become an individual again. She arranged nursing tasks into 14 different components based on personal needs. Not only are nurses responsible for the patient, but also to help the patient be themselves when they leave their care. This assures that the patient has fewer obstacles during recovery from being sick or injured, and helping getting back into self-care is easier when a nurse is there to motivate until the patient goes home.

- Henderson's career in public health nursing began in 1921 at the Henry Street Settlement in Manhattan, New York. She worked for the Visiting Nurse Association of Washington, D.C. from 1921 to 1923.

- She died in 1996 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, Connecticut, aged 98.