Dorothea Elizabeth Orem Flashcards
What is Dorothea Elizabeth Orem’s theory?
Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
When and where is Dorothea Orem born?
1914 - Baltimore, Maryland
What is Orem’s first book?
Nursing Concepts of Practice
What does Orem’s theory address?
Self-care needs
- Goal-oriented activities set towards generating interest in the part of the client to maintain life & health development
Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
What does Orem’s theory aim?
For clients to perform self-care and live independently
The patient - a being who functions and has potential for learning and development
An individual - meet self-care requisites
Person
State of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Health
Environmental factors, elements, conditions & Developmental Environment
Environment
Help clients in self-care activities
Geared towards independence of clients
Nursing
What is nursing based on? (Orem)
Values
What type of service is nursing? (Orem)
Human service
Why and How people care for themselves
Theory of Self Care
Activities perform independently to promote and maintain well-being
Self-Care
Complex acquired ability of mature/maturing persons to know & meet their continuing requirements for deliberate, purposive action to regulate their own functioning & development
Self-Care Agency
Person who provides the self-care
Self Agent
Person other than the individual who provides cares
Dependent Care Agent
Individual who is engage in meeting the need of a person
Agent
Insights of actions or requirements that a person must be able to meet and perform in order to achieve well-being
Self-care requisites or Self-care needs
Universally set goals that must be undertaken in order for an individual to function in scope of healthy living
Universal Self-care Requisites
What are the 8 Universal Self-Care Requisites?
- Maintenance of sufficient intake of air.
- Maintenance of sufficient intake of food.
- Maintenance of sufficient intake of water.
- Provision of care associated with elimination.
- Maintenance of balance between activity and rest.
- Maintenance of balance between solitude and social interaction.
Prevention of hazards to human life, human functioning and human well-being;
Promotion of human functioning and development.
Result from maturation or associated with conditions or events such as adjusting to a change in body image or loss of a spouse
Developmental Self-care Requisites
Result from illness, injury or disease or its treatment; they include such actions as seeking medical assistance, carrying out a prescribed treatment or learning to live with the effects of illness or treatment
Health Deviation Self-care Requisites
All self-care activities required to meet existing self-care requisites
Therapeutic Self-Care Demand
Describes & explains why people can be helped through nursing
Theory of Self-Care Deficit
Arises when the self-care agency cannot meet self-care requisites
Self-Care Deficit
Relationships that must be brought about & maintained for nursing to be produced
Series of actions a nurse takes to meet a patient’s self-care requisites
Theory of Nursing Systems
Capabilities of a nurse who can legitimately perform activities of care for a client
Nursing Agency
Professional functions that must be performed by the nurse in order to meet clients needs
Nursing Design
When a patient’s self-care agency is so limited that the patient depends on others for well-being
Wholly Compensatory Nursing System
When a patient can meet some self-care requisites but needs a nurse to help meet others
Partly Compensatory Nursing System
When a patient can meet self-care requisites but needs assistance with decision making , behavior control or knowledge acquisition skills
Supportive – Educative Nursing System
