Dorothea Orem

• Dorothea Orem - one of America's foremost nursing theorists
• Orem developed the Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
• Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory also known as the Orem Model of Nursing
• Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory - states that patients are encouraged to bring out the best in them despite being ill for a period of time
• Orem's General Theory: Theory of Self-Care, Theory of Self-Care Deficit, Theory of Nursing System
• Self-Care - the performance or practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own
• Self-Care Agency - human's ability or power to engage in self-care
• Self-care Agent - the one who provides self-care
• Dependent Care Agent - other than the individual who provides the care
• Two Agents of Self-Care: Self-Care Agent, Dependent Care Agent
• Self-Care Requisites - actions or reasons for which self-care is done
• Universal Self-Care Requisites - needs that are common to all individuals
• Developmental Self-Care Requisites - needs resulting from maturation or develop due to a condition or its treatment
• Health Deviation Self-Care Requisites - needs resulting from illness, injury, and disease or its treatment
• Therapeutic Self-Care Demand - the totality of "care measures" to meet known self-care requisites
• Theory of Self-Care Deficit - the central focus of Orem's general theory of nursing
• Theory of Self-Care Deficit - generally describes how people can be helped through nursing
• Theory of Self-Care Deficit - this theory delineates when nursing is needed
• Theory of Nursing System - describes how the patient's self-care needs will be met by the nurse, the patient, or both
• Self-Care Agency - what the individual can do
• Therapeutic Self-Care Demand - what needs to be done to maintain optimum functioning
• Wholly Compensatory Nursing System - the nurse provides all the care because the patient is unable to perform
• Partial Compensatory Nursing System - the nurse and the patient share the same responsibility for the care
• Supportive-Educative System - the patient is capable of self-care but needs education, support, or guidance from the nurse
• Humans - are the men, women, and children cared for either singly or as social units
• Persons are the "material object" of nurses and others who provide direct care
• Health - state of well-being achieved when self-care needs are met
• Environment - has physical, chemical, and biological features, which includes the family, culture, and community
• Nursing - support provided to help individuals meet their self-care needs when they can't do it
• Nursing Agency - nurses use these skills to either help patients directly or teach them how to care for themselves
• Normalcy - refers to what is fundamentally human and aligns with an individual's genetic traits, constitutional characteristics and talents