More to nursing than meets the eye

NURSES are often underrated due to social stigma, insufficient knowledge or just pure misconception of their role.

In 1966, Virginia Henderson (1897-1996), an influential nurse, researcher, theorist and author in the United States who is famous for her definition of nursing, wrote: “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 peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge.”