Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory Flashcards
What is the focus of nursing?
It is on the identification of the client’s self-care requisites and the designing of methods to meet the requisites.
What are the 3 theories?
The Theory of Self-care
The Self-Care Deficit Theory (SCDT)
The Theory of Nursing Systems
What is the view of Theory of Self-Care?
Views the person/patient as the self-care agent (SCA), whom deliberately engages in actions that promote health and well-being.
If you breakdown self-care and agent, how are they defined?
Self-Care: the practice of all the activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf in maintaining life, health, and well-being.
Agency of the person: The ability or power to meet self-care needs.
What is the ability to perform self-care influenced by?
Basic Conditioning Factors (BCF)
What are Basic Conditioning Factors?
The factors that influence the individual’s unique response, perceptions, and reactions to health, injury, disease or contact w/ the health care system.
What are self-care requisites?
Basic self-care needs.
What are the 3 types of self-care requisites (or requirements)?
Universal, Developmental, and Health Deviation
What does the Universal Self-Care Requisites (USCR) refer to?
Focuses on the requisites needed for a human being to survive physically and socially in his/her environment.
What does the Developmental Self-Care Requisites (DSCR) refer to?
The maturational and situational events occurring across the lifespan. (Ex. adjusting to a new job or body changes due to surgery)
What does the Health Deviation Self-Care requisites (HDSCR) refer to?
Needs that occur when individuals live w/ states of injury and illness. They reflect actions and adjustments the SCA must make when living w/ health deviations. (May result from medical measures needed to diagnose or correct the condition)
Who is a dependent-care agent (DCA)?
an individual who takes actions necessary to meet another person’s self-care needs, other than the person/patient or the nurse.
When might a DCA be needed?
When the SCA is unwilling, unable, or too young to meet their own needs.
When is dependent-care agency?
When the DCA has the sufficient ability/power to meet the needs of the person/patient.
What is therapeutic self-care demand?
Determining if the self-care requisites (needs) are sufficiently met at a therapeutic level that maintains health and well-bring.