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Henderson Nursing Philosophy
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Virginia Henderson
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Historical Period
She graduated from her first nursing program in 1921 and her career was at its apex in the 1970's as she was one of the more prominent authors of nursing textbooks through the 1970's (and before that dating back to the late 1950's). She was a research associated at Yale until she died in 1996. She died that same year at the age of 1998. Basically, her career was active in some form for nearly seven decades but it was highest in the middle part from the 1950's to 1970's.
Educational background
Virginia Henderson started her medicine career after she graduated from the United States Army School of Nursing in about 1921. She later received her bachelor's degree in 1931 and her master's degree. Her Bachelor of Science as well as her master's from Teachers College at Columbia University.
Experiential background
Ms. Henderson worked first, starting in 1921, at the Henry Street Settlement in the Manhattan borough of New York City. She worked for the Visiting Nurse Association from 1921 to 1923. She worked as a full-time nursing instructor at Norfolk Presbyterian Hospital from the mid-1920's to the late 1920's. About five years later, she started teaching at the college she graduated from, that being Teachers College at Columbia University, from roughly 1934 to 1948. In 1953, she was named as a research associated...
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