Dothea Orem Self-Care Theory
Dorothea Orem 's Self-Care Theory
This page was last updated on February 4, 2012 INTRODUCTION
• Theorist : Dorothea Orem (1914-2007)
• Born 1914 in Baltimore, US
• Earned her diploma at Providence Hospital – Washington, DC
• 1939 – BSN Ed., Catholic University of America
• 1945 – MSN Ed., Catholic University of America
• She worked as a staff nurse, private duty nurse, nurse educator and administrator and nurse consultant.
• Received honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1976.
• Theory was first published in Nursing: Concepts of Practice in 1971, second in 1980, in 1995, and 2001.
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
• People should be self-reliant and responsible for their own care and others in their family needing care
• People are distinct individuals
• Nursing is a form of action – interaction between two or more persons
• Successfully meeting universal and development self-care requisites is an important component of primary care prevention and ill health
• A person’s knowledge of potential health problems is necessary for promoting self-care behaviors
• Self care and dependent care are behaviors learned within a socio-cultural context
DEFINITIONS OF DOMAIN CONCEPTS
Nursing – is art, a helping service, and a technology
• Actions deliberately selected and performed by nurses to help individuals or groups under their care to maintain or change conditions in themselves or their environments
• Encompasses the patient’s perspective of health condition ,the physician’s perspective , and the nursing perspective
• Goal of nursing – to render the patient or members of his family capable of meeting the patient’s self care needs
• To maintain a state of health
• To regain normal or near normal state of health in the event of disease or injury
• To stabilize ,control ,or minimize the effects of chronic poor health or disability
Health – health and healthy are terms used to describe living things …
• It is when they are structurally and functionally whole or
This page was last updated on February 4, 2012 INTRODUCTION
• Theorist : Dorothea Orem (1914-2007)
• Born 1914 in Baltimore, US
• Earned her diploma at Providence Hospital – Washington, DC
• 1939 – BSN Ed., Catholic University of America
• 1945 – MSN Ed., Catholic University of America
• She worked as a staff nurse, private duty nurse, nurse educator and administrator and nurse consultant.
• Received honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1976.
• Theory was first published in Nursing: Concepts of Practice in 1971, second in 1980, in 1995, and 2001.
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
• People should be self-reliant and responsible for their own care and others in their family needing care
• People are distinct individuals
• Nursing is a form of action – interaction between two or more persons
• Successfully meeting universal and development self-care requisites is an important component of primary care prevention and ill health
• A person’s knowledge of potential health problems is necessary for promoting self-care behaviors
• Self care and dependent care are behaviors learned within a socio-cultural context
DEFINITIONS OF DOMAIN CONCEPTS
Nursing – is art, a helping service, and a technology
• Actions deliberately selected and performed by nurses to help individuals or groups under their care to maintain or change conditions in themselves or their environments
• Encompasses the patient’s perspective of health condition ,the physician’s perspective , and the nursing perspective
• Goal of nursing – to render the patient or members of his family capable of meeting the patient’s self care needs
• To maintain a state of health
• To regain normal or near normal state of health in the event of disease or injury
• To stabilize ,control ,or minimize the effects of chronic poor health or disability
Health – health and healthy are terms used to describe living things …
• It is when they are structurally and functionally whole or
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