Dorothea Orem

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who developed the Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory

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Dorothea E. Orem

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Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory also known as

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Orem Model of Nursing

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composed of three interrelated theories:

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(1) the theory of self-care
(2) the self-care deficit theory
(3) the theory of nursing systems

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focuses on each individual’s ability to perform self-care, defined as “the practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf in maintaining life, health, and well-being.”

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Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory

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explains the terms self-care, nursing systems, and self-care deficit essential to students who plan to start their nursing careers.

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Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory

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this theory signifies that all patients want to care for themselves. They can recover more quickly and holistically by performing their own self-care as much as they’re able. This theory is particularly used in rehabilitation and primary care or other settings where patients are encouraged to be independent.

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Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory

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the performance or practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health, and well-being.

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Self-Care

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the human’s ability or power to engage in self-care and is affected by basic conditioning factors.

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Self-Care Agency

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are age, gender, developmental state, health state, socio-cultural orientation, health care system factors, family system factors, patterns of living, environmental factors, and resource adequacy and availability.

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Basic Conditioning Factors

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totality of “self-care actions to be performed for some duration to meet known self-care requisites by using valid methods and related sets of actions and operations.”

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Therapeutic Self-care Demand

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when nursing is needed

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Self-Care Deficit

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Nursing is required when an adult is ___ of providing continuous effective self-care.

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incapable

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attribute of people educated and trained as nurses that enables them to act, know, and help others meet their therapeutic self-care demands

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Nursing Agency

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an art through which the practitioner of nursing gives specialized assistance to persons with disabilities, making more than ordinary assistance necessary to meet self-care needs

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Nursing

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“men, women, and children cared for either singly or as social units” and are the “material object” of nurses and others who provide direct care

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Humans

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physical, chemical, and biological features. It includes the family, culture, and community.

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Environment

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a state that encompasses both the health of individuals and groups, and human health is the ability to reflect on oneself, symbolize experience, and communicate with others.

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Health

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product of a series of relations between the persons: legitimate nurse and legitimate client.

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Nursing System

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This theory focuses on the performance or practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health, and well-being.

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Theory of Self-Care

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actions directed toward the provision of self-care.

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Self-Care Requisites

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Self-Care Requisites presented in three categories

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Universal Self-Care Requisites
Developmental self-care requisites
Health deviation self-care requisites

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associated with life processes and the maintenance of the human structure and functioning integrity

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Universal Self-Care Requisites

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“either specialized expressions of universal self-care requisites that have been particularized for developmental processes or they are new requisites derived from a condition or associated with an event.”

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Developmental self-care requisites

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are required in conditions of illness, injury, or disease or may result from medical measures required to diagnose and correct the condition.

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Health deviation self-care requisites

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This theory delineates when nursing is needed.

Nursing is required when an adult (or in the case of a dependent, the parent or guardian) is incapable of or limited in providing continuous effective self-care.

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Theory of Self-Care Deficit

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Acting for and doing for others
Guiding others
Supporting another
Providing an environment promoting personal development about meet future demands
Teaching another

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5 methods of helping

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This theory is the product of a series of relations between the persons: legitimate nurse and legitimate client.
This system is activated when the client’s therapeutic self-care demand exceeds the available self-care agency, leading to nursing.

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Theory of Nursing System

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Example: Nurse guides a mother on how to breastfeed her baby, Counseling a psychiatric client on more adaptive coping strategies.

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Supportive-Educative System

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This is also known as a supportive-developmental system. The person “can perform or can and should learn to perform required measures of externally or internally oriented therapeutic self-care but cannot do so without assistance.”

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Supportive-Educative System

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This is represented by a situation in which “both nurse and perform care measures or other actions involving manipulative tasks or ambulation… [Either] the patient or the nurse may have a major role in the performance of care measures.”

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Partial Compensatory Nursing System

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This is represented by a situation in which the individual is unable “to engage in those self-care actions requiring self-directed and controlled ambulation and manipulative movement or the medical prescription to refrain from such activity… Persons with these limitations are socially dependent on others for their continued existence and well-being.”

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Wholly Compensatory Nursing System

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Example: care of a newborn, care of client recovering from surgery in a post-anesthesia care unit

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Wholly Compensatory Nursing System

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Example: Nurse can assist the postoperative client in ambulating, Nurse can bring a meal tray for a client who can feed himself

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Partial Compensatory Nursing System

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 This is represented by a situation in which the individual is unable “to engage in those self-care actions requiring self-directed and controlled ambulation and manipulative movement or the medical prescription to refrain from such activity… Persons with these limitations are socially dependent on others for their continued existence and well-being

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Wholly Compensatory nursing system

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 This is represented by a situation in which “both nurse and perform care measures or other actions involving manipulative tasks or ambulation… [Either] the patient or the nurse may have a major role in the performance of care measures.”

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Partial Compensatory Nursing System

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 The person “can perform or can and should learn to perform required measures of externally or internally oriented therapeutic self-care but cannot do so without assistance.”

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Supportive educative system

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 This theory is the product of a series of relations between the persons: legitimate nurse and legitimate client. This system is activated when the client’s therapeutic self-care demand exceeds the available self-care agency, leading to nursing.

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Theory of nursing system