Question

Write a 1000-word essay discussing how Orem's work can be applied by nursing students.

Answer 1

Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory focuses on each “individual's ability to perform self-care, defined as 'the practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf in maintaining life, health, and well-being.

There are three parts to Orem’s general theory of nursing:

• The theory of self-care, which focuses on the performance or practice of activities that individuals perform on their own behalf. Those might be actions to maintain one’s life and life functioning, develop oneself or correct a health deviation or condition.
• The theory of self-care deficit, which defines when nursing is needed because a person is limited or incapable of providing self-care and needs help.
• The theory of nursing system, which focuses on the relationship between a nurse and a client and the wholly or partial compensatory nursing system and supportive-educative system that takes place between nurse and a person.

Application by nursing student

1.Orem's concept of nursing as the provision of self- care was first published in 1959. Orem continued to develop her nursing concepts and her self-care deficit theory of nursing. ... When self-care is effectively performed, it helps to maintain structural integrity and human functioning and contributes to human development.