TFN Dorothea Orem
TFN Dorothea Orem
TFN Dorothea Orem
DOROTHEA
OREM
AUTHOR OF THE SELF-CARE NURSING THEORY
•Universal
•Developmental
•Health deviation
A. UNIVERSAL SELF CARE
REQUISITES
• Common to all, ADL (needs that all people have)
• Identifies these requisites as:
a) Maintenance of sufficient intake of air ,water, food
b) Provision of care assoc with elimination process
c) Balance between activity and rest, between solitude and social interaction
d) Prevention of hazards to human life well being and
e) Promotion of human functioning
B. DEVELOPMENTAL SELF CARE
REQUISITES
•Needs associated with developmental processes/ derived from a
condition.... Or associated with an event
•E.g. adjusting to a new job
• adjusting to body changes
C. HEALTH DEVIATION SELF CARE
REQUISITES
• Required in conditions of illness, injury, or disease. these include:
• Seeking and securing appropriate medical assistance
• Being aware of and attending to the effects and results of pathologic
conditions
• Effectively carrying out medically prescribed measures
• Learning to live with effects of pathologic conditions
A.Nursing agency
is a complex property or attribute of people educated and trained as nurses that
enables them to act, to know, and to help others meet their therapeutic self-care
demands by exercising or developing their own self- care agency.
Guiding others 2
3 Supporting another
5 Teaching another
C. Theory of Nursing Systems
• Describes how the patient's self care needs will be met by the nurse, the
patient, or both
• Identifies 3 classifications of nursing system to meet the self care requisite of
the patient:
a) Wholly compensatory system
b) Partly compensatory system
c) Supportive educative system
A. Wholly Compensatory System
•Patient is DEPENDENTY
• Nurses accomplish ALL the patient's therapeutic self-care
• Nurses compensate for the patient's inability to engage in self-care
• Example: care of a new born, care of client recovering from surgery in a post-
anesthesia care unit
Example: Supportive-Educative
• The patient had been newly diagnosed to have diabetes mellitus. The patient
is capable of self-care but she needs self-care knowledge on how to live well
with diabetes- nutrition, activity/exercise, self- monitoring of blood glucose,
foot care, prevention of complications, medications.
Application of Orem's Theory
• It emphasizes the need to understand the importance of self- care in
promotion of health
• Focus on the patient's capacity to perform self-care activities
• It also becomes clear that nurses today should not move away education and
supportive measures HEALTH TEACHINGS.
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