Orem Self-Care Glossary (Definition/Word) Flashcards
The individual or group taking action
AGENT
The power to engage in action to achieve specific goals. The power includes knowledge, skills, motivation, energy and congruency
AGENCY
Basic factors that influence the individual’s unique response, perceptions, and reactions to health, injury, disease, or hospitalization.
BASIC CONDITIONING FACTORS
Choosing purposeful goal directed actions that require the coordination of cognitive and sensorimotor capabilities.
DELIBERATIVE ACTION
An individual, other than the patient/client or nurse, who takes action to meet the self-care requisites
DEPENDENT CARE AGENT
The cognitive, psychological, physiological capabilities, and the power essential for an individual/group to engage in the actions necessary to meet the self-care requisites of another individual
DEPENDENT CARE AGENCY
Methods of helping that nurses use to assist others include: acting for, guiding, supporting, teaching, and providing an environment conducive to self-care development.
MODES OF ASSISTING
The designer of Nursing Systems. The nurse who acts on behalf of the client/patient.
NURSING AGENT
All the specialized competencies and knowledge that enable nurses to provide care that compensates for the self-care or dependent care deficits of others.
NURSING AGENCY
A dynamic problem solving approach consisting of two phases: (a) assessment and management, and (b) five basic elements: data collection, problem identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation/modification.
NURSING PROCESS
a series of actions and interactions used by nurses to facilitate the patients’ capabilities for engaging in self-care to meet their requisites.
NURSING SYSTEMS
The nurse compensates for a patient’s/client’s total inability to provide self-care; nurse is responsible for meeting all of the self-care requisites.
WHOLLY COMPENSATORY NURSING SYSTEM
Both the nurse and patient perform measures or actions to meet the self-care requisites
PARTLY COMPENSATORY NURSING SYSTEM
The nurse provides guidance and support to facilitate decision-making, behavior control, and the acquisition of knowledge and skills to meet self-care requisites
SUPPORTIVE-EDUCATIVE NURSING SYSTEM
Individuals, families, and/or communities, with a set of
self-care requisites and the capability to meet those requisites, who are the recipient of health care and the focus of nursing
PATIENT/CLIENT
An individual’s or group’s deliberate action performed for the sake of self to maintain and/or enhance human functioning, health, and well-being.
SELF-CARE
Person who takes action on his/her own behalf in order to meet self-care requisites.
SELF-CARE AGENT
The cognitive, psychological, physiological capabilities, and the power essential for an individual/group to engage in actions necessary for self-care.
SELF-CARE AGENCY
An inequality in the relationship between self-care agency (taking action) and the therapeutic self-care demand where the therapeutic self-care care demand exceeds self-care agency. The self-care deficit determines the need for nursing.
SELF-CARE DEFICIT
Expressions, that restrict individuals in providing the amount and kind of self-care that they need under existing and changing conditions and circumstances.
SELF-CARE LIMITATION
The purpose/needs that are attained through self-care
SELF-CARE REQUISITES
needs common to all humans
Universal self-care requisites
processes necessary for maturation across the life span.
Developmental self-care requisites
needs that arise as a consequence of alterations in health state.
Health deviation self-care requisites
