Major assumptions Orem (2001) identifies five premises underlying the general theory of nursing: Human beings require continuous, deliberate inputs to themselves and their environments to remain alive and function in accordance with natural human endowments. 2. Human agency, the power to act deliberately, is exercised in the form of care for self and others […]
Helping methods • Acting for or doing for another • Guiding and directing • Providing physical or psychological support • Providing and maintaining an environment that supports personal development • Teaching (Orem, 2001) Basic conditioning factors Basic conditioning factors condition or affect the value of the therapeutic self-care demand and/or the self-care agency of
Nursing systems Nursing systems are series and sequences of deliberate practical actions of nurses performed at times in coordination with the actions of their patients to know and meet components of patients’ therapeutic self-care demands and to protect and regulate the exercise or development of patients’ self-care agency (Orem, 2001 Place Your Order Here!
Nursing design Nursing design, a professional function performed both before and after nursing diagnosis and prescription, allows nurses, on the basis of reflective practical judgments about existent conditions, to synthesize concrete situational elements into orderly relations to structure operational units. Place Your Order Here!
Nursing agency Nursing agency comprises developed capabilities of persons educated as nurses that empower them to represent themselves as nurses and within the frame of a legitimate interpersonal relationship to act, to know, and to help persons in such relationships to meet their therapeutic self-care demands and to regulate the development or exercise of
Dependent-care deficit Dependent-care deficit is a relationship that exists when the dependent-care provider’s agency is not adequate to meet the therapeutic self-care demand of the person receiving dependent-care. Place Your Order Here!
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Self-care deficit Self-care deficit is the relationship between an individual’s therapeutic self-care demand and his or her powers of self-care agency in which the constituent-developed self-care capabilities within self-care agency are inoperable or inadequate for knowing and meeting some or all components of the existent or projected therapeutic self-care demand (Orem, 2001) Place Your
Dependent-care agency Dependent-care agency refers to the acquired ability of a person to know and meet the therapeutic self-care demand of the dependent person and/or regulate the development and exercise of the dependent’s self-care agency. Place Your Order Here!
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Self-care agency The self-care agency is a complex acquired ability of mature and maturing persons to know and meet their continuing requirements for deliberate, purposive action to regulate their own human functioning and development (Orem, 2001) Place Your Order Here!
Dependent-care demand Dependent-care demand is the summation of care measures at a specific point in time or over a duration of time for meeting the dependent’s therapeutic self-care demand when his or her self-care agency is not adequate or operational Place Your Order Here!
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