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.
VIRGINIA A. HENDERSON. 1897 - 1996. 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.
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.
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.
The police blanketed the 23-year-old woman and asked her questions to determine her state of mind. She was unable to answer who she was, what day it was, or who the President of the United States was.
Upon their approach, she greeted them with a “hi,” and proceeded to touch the dog sexually. The police blanketed the 23-year-old woman and asked her questions to determine her state of mind.