Dorothea Elizabeth Orem: Self-Care Deficit Theory Flashcards
where is orems self care deficit theory best applied to?
rehabilitation and ICU
- Orem’s General Theory of Nursing is expressed in 3 related parts. what are these?
theory of self-care
self care deficit theory
nursing systems theory
Postulates that self-care & the self-care of dependents are learned behaviors that individuals initiate & perform to maintain health & well-being.
Describes why and how people care for themselves.
theory of self-care
(6) Universal Self-Care Requisites
*Maintenance of a sufficient intake of air, water & food.
*Provision of care associated with elimination processes & excrements.
*Maintenance of balance between activity & rest.
*Maintenance of balance between solitude & social interaction.
*Prevention of hazards to human life, human functioning & human well-being.
*Promotion of human functioning & development within social groups.
Asserts that people benefit from nursing because they have health-related limitation in providing self-care.
Describes and explains why people can be helped through nursing.
o Theory of Self-Care Deficit
Postulates that nurses prescribe, design & provide nursing that regulated the individual’s self-care capabilities and meets therapeutic self-care requirements.
nursing systems theory
Basic Nursing Systems
wholly compensatory, partially compensatory, supportive-educative systems
o Nurse accomplishes patient’s therapeutic self-care.
o Supports and protects patient.
wholly compensatory system
o Patient performs some self-care measures.
o Nurse assists patient as required.
partially compensatory system
o Patient accomplishes self-care.
o Both the nurse and patient regulate the exercise and development of self-care agency.
supportive-educative system
- Viewed as functioning biologically, symbolically, and socially. He initiates & performs self-care activities on own behalf in maintaining life, health, well-being.
person
an external source of influence in the internal interaction of a person’s different aspects.
environment
- Environment as encompassed by two dimensions that are interactive. what are these?
a.) Physical, chemical & biological
b.) Socioeconomic features
- Is a state that is characterized by soundness or wholeness of developed human structures and of bodily and mental functioning.
health
what is the function of the nurses in SCDF
- Restore the client’s self-care capability to enable them to sustain structural reliability, performance, and growth through purposeful nursing intervention.
- Nurse helps clients identify and establish ways to perform self-care activities.
