Virginia Avenel Henderson
Her famous definition of nursing was "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 and to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible." She was one of the first nurses to point out that nursing does not consist of merely following physician's orders.
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