Orem's Theory Of Self Care Theory Analysis

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She also recognized that people are all different individuals. Been able to understand their need and their way of reacting to their care was a key factor at the time to care for them. Nursing as a form of interaction between two or more people. Orem’s divided her theories in three related parts, theory of Self Care, theory of self care deficit and theory of nursing.

The Theory of Self Care she includes; Self care as the activities that we all individuals perform to maintain life our health and well-being. Self Care Agency as our ability to engage in our care based on our developmental state and life-socio-cultural orientation as well as resources available. This part also includes the therapeutic self care demand, means of all the actions to be performed for a period of time to meet self care requisites using methods of operations and actions. Lastly she mentioned that self

On which she described how the nurse, patient or both satisfy the patient’s self care needs. She identified requisites of nursing care system to meet the self care are, wholly compensatory system, and partially compensatory and educative system. It also explains

general and specific roles of nurses and patients. Reasons for patient and nurse relationship. Orem gives importance to the technology as systematized information on process and methods that affect the desired outcome. The implementation of nursing process on Orem’s theory it gives a more organized and logical structure in order to satisfies patient, nurse, and both delivery of care.

The nursing process is a method to determine the self care deficit to define the role of patient and nurse in order to meet self care demands. The different steps are considered the technical part of the nursing process. Orem’s specified that data in the nursing process must be collected in six areas. The personal health status, the doctor’s impression of the person’s health, the own person perspective of her or his health. The goals, life styles and health status. The individual requirement for self care and finally their capacity to meet their self care