Virginia Henderson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Named after the state of Virginia, she moved there at the age of four. She attended Bellevue, a prep school owned by her grandfather. She then continued her education at the Army School of Nursing in Washington, D.C. and took classes at Teacher's College, where she graduated in 1921. Henderson first practiced nursing at Henry Street Settlement in New York. Then, in 1924, she began teaching in Virginia at the Norfolk Protestant Hospital, where she was the first instructor in the nursing school. She then returned to New York to earn her bachelor's and master's degrees at Teacher's College, where she then taught for 16 years and practiced nursing in teaching hospitals. Henderson saw the need to update the definition of nursing from the time of Florence Nightingale, the first nurse theorist. The emergence of modern medicine has made the principles of Nightingale's time obsolete. Henderson's definition of nursing is: The nurse does for others what she would do for herself if she...