Virginia Henderson was a nurse born in 1897 who developed an influential definition of nursing. She began her career as a nurse in 1918 and graduated from nursing school in 1921. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she published works defining her concept of nursing and identifying 14 basic human needs. Her theory conceptualized the nurse's role as assisting patients to independently meet these basic needs in order to maintain health or recover from illness. She viewed the goal of nursing as helping patients achieve maximum independence as quickly as possible. Her definition of nursing, which described the nurse's sole function as helping individuals perform activities contributing to health, became widely adopted in the nursing profession.

1. VIRGINIA AVENEL
HENDERSON
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
He was born in Kansas City, Missouri on
March 19, 1897.
• 1918 at the age of 21 began her
nursing studies at the Army Nursing
School in Washington D. C ...
• 1921 graduates and works as a nurse
at the Henry Street Visiting Nurse
Service in New York.
• 1922 begins his career as a teacher.
• 1955 publishes the sixth edition of this
book containing Virginia Henderson's
Definition of Nursing.
• 1953 enters Yale University where he
contributed a valuable collaboration in
the investigation of Infirmary.
• 1959 to 1971 directs the Nursing
Studies Index Project, funded by Yale
University. This was designed as an
index of four-volume annotations on the
literature, analysis and historical nursing
literature from 1900 to 1959.
• 1960 Basic Principles of Nursing Care
brochure for the International Council of
Nurse.
• 1953 to 1958 work on the Project led
by Leo W Simmons, who edited for five
years a National Survey on Research in
Nursing which was published in 1964.
• 1966 publishes her book The Nature of
Nursing here describes her concept of
the unique and primordial function of the
nurse.
During the 1980s, she remained active
as an associate research emeritus at
Yale University.
THEORETICAL SOURCES
Three factors led her to compile her own
Nursing Definition, the first of which
occurred in the review of Berta Harmer's
text. The second factor was his
participation as a member of the
National Nursi Council Regional
Conference Committee in 1946, and the
third factor was represented by his own
interest in the five-year result of the
American Nurses Association (ANA)
Research on Nursing function in 1955.
TREND AND MODEL
Virginia Henderson's model is in the
Human Needs Models that start from the
theory of human needs for life and health
as the nucleus for nursing action. It
belongs to Tendency of substitution or
help, Henderson conceives the role of
the nurse as the accomplishment of the
actions that the patient can not perform
at a certain moment of his vital cycle
(illness, childhood, old age), fomenting,
in greater or Less self-care on the part of
the patient, this theory is placed in the
category of humanistic nursing as art
and science.
MAIN CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS
Virginia Henderson's theory is
considered as a defining philosophy of
nursing, it is based on basic human
needs. The role of the nurse is to care
for the healthy or sick (or to help a quiet
death), in all kinds of activities that
contribute to their health or to recover it.
Its goal is to make the individual
independent as soon as possible to
cover their basic needs, nursing care is
applied through the care plan.

2. Definition of Nursing
Its only function is to help the healthy or
sick individual in the performance of
those activities that contribute to his
health or recovery (or a quiet death) that
he would perform without assistance if
he had the strength, will or knowledge
necessary, doing so in a way that he
Facilitate their independence as quickly
as possible.
 Health
 Environment
 Needs
MAIN ASSUMPTIONS
The nurse has the sole function of
helping healthy or sick individuals, acts
as a member of the health team,
possesses knowledge of both biology
and sociology, can evaluate basic
human needs. The person must maintain
their physiological and emotional
balance, the body and mind are
inseparable, it requires help to achieve
their independence. Health is quality of
life, is fundamental for human
functioning, requires independence and
interdependence, health is more.
THEORETICAL AFFIRMATIONS Nurse
patient relationship: Three levels are
established in the patient nurse
relationship and these are:
 The nurse as a substitute for
the patient
 The nurse as patient assistant
 The nurse as the patient's
companion.
Nurse - doctor relationship
Nurse - health team:
LOGICAL METHOD
Henderson used the deductive method
of logical reasoning to develop his
theory. He deduced this definition and
the fourteen needs of his model from the
psychological and physiological
principles.
VIRGINIA AVENEL
HENDERSON
Integrantes :
Ramos Flores Cesar
Alfaro Vera Kevin
Tenorio Sayritupac Jonzon
Angulo Mendoza Carol
Zevallos Sayritupac Hilary