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Running Head: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE

Putting Theory into Practice: Utilization of Henderson’s Nursing Theory in Everyday Nursing Practice

Health care around the world and especially in the Western world, has undergone extreme changes over the past few decades, however, the basic principles of nursing such as caring for the sick and elderly have remained the same. Many of those principles come from the teaching of Virginia Henderson.
Her interactional theory of holistic care has helped to form the philosophical base of twentieth century nursing. Following the guidelines set by Nightingale, Ms. Henderson was a humanist who “viewed the education of patients and families as core to nursing care� (Sanford, 2000, p.1). Her theory of nursing brought to the forefront the idea of the nurse as patient educator.
It is for this reason I have chosen Virginia Henderson’s theory, coupled with a Christian Worldview of Nursing, to base my practice of care at the......

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