Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Virginia Avenel Henderson

An American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author, Virginia Henderson graduated from the Army School of Nursing, Washington, D.C. in 1921. She is an expert in nursing theory and graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University, with an M.A. degree in nursing education. Henderson is famous for defining nursing as a responsibility to aid people, whether sick or not, and help them towards better health and recover under any circumstances. The International Council of Nurses honored her with the first Christianne Reimann Prize in June 1985.

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