Dorothea Orem

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Dorothea Orem

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Self-Care Deficit Theory

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• proposes that patients have the innate ability and responsibility to care for themselves.
• A nurse’s role goes beyond tending to patients’ physical needs; it involves supporting them on their journey to regain independence

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Self-Care Deficit Theory

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The self-care deficit theory is a general theory composed of the following 4 related theories:

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• The theory of self-care
• The theory of dependent-care
• The theory of self-care deficit
• The theory of nursing systems

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activities that persons initiate and perform, on their own behalf maintaining life, healthful functioning, continuing personal development, and well-being

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Self-care

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Care that is provided to a person who, because of age or related factors, is unable to perform the self-care needed

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Dependent-Care

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Actions to be performed that are known to be necessary in the regulation of an aspect of human functioning and development.

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Self-Care Requisites

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Type of self-care requisites

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• Universal Self-Care Requisites
• Developmental Self-Care Requisites
• Health Deviation Self-Care Requisites

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Universal Self-Care Requisites

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8 Self-Care Requisites:
1. Air
2. Food
3. Water
4. Elimination processes and excrements
5. Balance between activity and rest
6. Balance between solitude and social interaction
7. Prevention of hazards to human life
8. Promotion of human functioning and development within social groups and the human desire to be normal

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— supporting growth & development throughout life

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Developmental Self-Care Requisites

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persons who are ill or injured, who have specific forms of pathological conditions or disorders, including defects and disabilities

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Health Deviation Self-Care Requisites

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summation of care measures necessary f time to meet all of an individual’s known self- care requisites

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Therapeutic Self-Care Demand

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summation of care measures for meeting the dependent’s therapeutic selfcare demand when his or her self-care agency is not adequate or operational.

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Dependent-Care Demand

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— is the human’s ability or power to engage in self-care

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Self-Care Agency

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refers to the acquired ability of a person to know and meet the therapeutic self-care demand of the dependent person

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Dependent-Care Agency

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The individual cannot meet their own self-care needs due to physical or mental limitations and requires external support or nursing care.

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Self-Care Deficit

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The caregiver cannot adequately meet the self-care needs of a dependent person and requires assistance, training, or resources to provide proper care.

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Dependent-Care Deficit

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• comprises developed capabilities of persons educated as nurses.
• To help persons meet their therapeutic self- care demands.
• the capabilities of nurses to assist persons

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Nursing Agency

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Refers to the plan or framework that nurses develop to guide their care for patients with self-care deficits

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Nursing Design

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Sequential series of actions that will overcome or compensate for the health-associated limitations of individuals

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Helping Methods

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condition or affect the value of the therapeutic self-care demand

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Basic Conditioning Factors

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the individual is unable “to engage in those self-care actions. socially dependent on others for their continued existence and well-being.

(nurse provides all care)

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wholly

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“both nurse and patient perform care measures.

(nurse and patient share care responsibilities),

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partly

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

(nurse teaches the patient to care for themselves)

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supportive-educative

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◦Feeding a patient who is unconscious.
◦Turning and repositioning a bedridden.
◦Performing all hygiene care (bathing & oral care) for a patient with advanced paralysis.
◦Ventilator management for a patient with respiratory failure.

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Wholly Compensatory

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◦Assisting a post-operative patient in walking while they regain strength.
◦Helping a patient with limited mobility to dress or bathe.
◦Providing set-up assistance for meals to a patient who can feed themselves.
◦Guiding a patient with mild dementia to remember daily hygiene routines.

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Partially Compensatory

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◦Teaching a diabetic patient how to monitor blood glucose levels and administer insulin.
◦Educating a patient about wound care and infection prevention.
◦Providing dietary counseling to a patient with hypertension.
◦Supporting a patient with asthma by teaching them how to use an inhaler correctly.
◦Teaching lifestyle changes to promote long-term heart health.

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Supportive-Educative