NAME: Mark John G.

Torentera
ADRESS: Catalunan Grande Southvilla Heights Blk43 lot20, Davao city
Mobile#: 09067319116

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PERSONAL DATA

Age : 19
Birth date : 09-26-1998
Birth place : Upper Mintal, Davao city
Gender : Male
Civil status : Single
Religion : INC
Height : 5'7
Father’s name : Roy Torentera
Occupation : none
Mother’s name : Gemmarie Torentera
Occupation : Factory worker

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Primary & Secondary Good Soil Academy(2006-2011)
Saint Francis Xavier Learning Center(20112015)
Senior High School
Virginia Henderson was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Daniel
Brosius Henderson and Lucy Minor Abbot. Named for the State her mother
longed for, she returned there at age four and began her schooling at Bellevue, a
preparatory school owned by "Grandfather", William Richardson Abbot. Her
father was a former teacher at Bellevue and an Attorney who represented Native
American Indians in disputes with the U.S. Government, winning a major case for
the Klamath tribe in 1937. Her schooling was thorough but did not yield a
diploma, a fact that delayed her entry into nursing school. Patriotic fervor
stimulated her enlistment in the Army School of Nursing in Washington, D. C.
where the students were treated like cadets in the U. S. Military Academy.
Courses were taken at Teacher's College, Columbia University under the direction
of her mentor, Miss Annie Goodrich. She graduated in 1921 and practiced nursing
at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.

She began her career as a nurse educator in 1924 at the Norfolk Protestant
Hospital in Virginia where she was the first and only teacher in the school of
nursing. After five years there she returned to New York to begin formal degree
studies in nursing at Teacher's College. These were interrupted for a year when
she practiced nursing at the outpatient clinics at Strong Memorial Hospital in
Rochester, N.Y., returning to complete her Bachelor's and Master's degrees with
the aid of a Rockefeller Scholarship.

For the next sixteen years, she taught nursing at Teacher's College and practiced
nursing at major New York teaching hospitals. Macmillan Publishing Company
asked her to write a new (1939) fourth edition of the Harmer textbook which
became a standard reference.

With royalties from the previous edition to support her, she took five years to
completely revise the Harmer and Henderson Textbook of the Principles and
Practice of Nursing for 1955 publication. The influence of nursing concepts from
Nightingale's era that had buoyed the profession for over ninety years;
cleanliness, nutrition, ventilation, order, etc., had outlived their usefulness with
the advent of antibiotics and short hospital stays. The new edition of her text was
organized around a view of nursing where:

"nurses assisted individuals, sick or well, in the performance of those activities

contributing to health, its recovery (or to a peaceful death), that they would
perform unaided if they had the requisite strength, will or knowledge."
This description of nursing concluded with the objective for giving nursing care;
to help the individual be free of help as rapidly as possible. The textbook was
used uniformly throughout hospital nursing schools in North America and served
to standardize nursing practice.
The International Council of Nurses commissioned her to write an essay entitled
Basic Principles of Nursing Care (Geneva, 1960) for the use of nurses who had
neither access to technology nor the medical care required to establish disease
diagnoses. The ICN publication is available in 29 languages and is in current use
throughout the world.

Henderson's career in research began when she joined the Yale School of Nursing
as Research Associate in 1953 to work on a critical review of nursing research.
Her findings indicated that most nursing research studied nurses, not nursing care.
A series of editorials she wrote for professional journals helped stimulate the
reorientation of nursing research which became much more clinical.

Noting the absence of an organized literature upon which to base clinical studies,
she embarked on a project to annotate nursing literature. The four volume Nursing
Studies Index was completed in 1972 and was hailed as her most important
contribution to nursing science.

Miss Henderson started her most important writing project at the age of 75 when
she began the sixth edition of the Principles and Practice of Nursing text. Over the
next five years, she led Gladys Nite and seventeen contributors to synthesize the
professional literature she had just completed indexing. With the wisdom gleaned
from over fifty years in the nursing profession and the opportunity to review the
writings of all principle authors who wrote in English, she fashioned a work that
both thoroughly criticized health care and offered nurses an opportunity to correct
the shortcomings. The book operates on two levels; individual and global. She
argued that health care will be reformed by the individual nurses who will enable
their patients to be independent in health care matters when patients are both
educated and encouraged to care for themselves. She took this philosophy to new
heights by eliminating medical jargon from the text and declaring it is a reference
for those who want to guard their own or their family's health or take care of a
sick relative or friend.

A warm and vivacious person, she traveled the world at the invitation of
professional societies, universities and governments. She was a prolific writer
who hated to write. She lived long enough to complete a set of widely translated
and influential works, the likes of which were last written by Florence
Nightingale. She spoke of the necessity of a universal, comprehensive health
service for all, the absurdity of for profit health care and for patients to keep and
contribute to their own health records.

She died at the Connecticut Hospice featured in her writings and experienced the
peaceful death she desired for all mankind. She is buried in the family plot of the
churchyard of St. Stephen's Church, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia.
Sources:

Information from recorded interviews.

Smith, James. (1991) Virginia Henderson: the first ninety years, Scutari Press:
London,

Halloran, Edward (1995) A Virginia Henderson reader; excellence in nursing.

Springer Publishing Co.: New York,.

Henderson, Virginia; Nite, Gladys. (1978) Principles and practice of nursing sixth
edition Macmillan: New York and London. Reprinted by the International
Council of Nurses in 1997, now available from the bookstore of the American
Nurses Association.
Reflection:

There are things in life that you simply don’t appreciate because it is what you
have been doing every day. With the concepts of Henderson’s Theory, these have
been applied for many years and yet we still use it as a core in our profession.
When I was still a Medical-Surgical Ward Nurse, I was driven by this theory, and
during my rounds, I’ll do a quick mental nursing process just to identify the
problems of my patient. I would then base it from the identified 14 human needs,
checking if the patient is capable of doing activities of daily living, and evaluating
if a patient can do it by his or herself. As a nurse, I am there to make sure that in
one way or another, independence is achieved. For stroke patients, it is more on
compliance at home and making sure that the environment is free from any form
of dangers. We nurses must not ignore that we also have independent nursing
roles, and that is being independent from the physicians. For instance, for patients
who have distended bladder, we don’t call the attending physician immediately,
but instead, we try our best to do nursing management such as hot/cold compress
or stimulation of environment. In this way, you helped the patient in achieving its
goal without any invasive measures.

Now as I became a head nurse, I made rounds every day to all patients making
sure if they have been satisfied with the kind of services that we gave them.
Through this, I was able to encourage all patients and its significant others to
communicate by expressing their emotions and opinions. And consequently,
reflecting once again that I have applied this theory in my everyday work field