DOROTHEA E. OREM

Question 1

• considered a grand nursing theory because it is applicable to all instances of nursing
• based on the belief that the individual has a need for self-care actions and that nursing can assist the person in meeting that need to maintain life, health, and well-being

Answer 1

Self-Care Deficit Theory

Question 2

• consists of activities that individuals carry out on their own behalf
• deliberate, have pattern and sequence, and are developed from day-to-day living
• maintains health functioning, personal development, and well-being

Answer 2

self-care

Question 3

• acquired ability or power to engage in self-care
• affected by basic conditioning factors (age, gender, developmental state, health state, socio-cultural, etc.)

Answer 3

self-care agency

Question 4

the reasons for which self-care is undertaken; they express the intended or desired results

Answer 4

self-care requisites

Question 5

requisites are associated with life processes and the maintenance of the human structure and functioning integrity

• sufficient intake of air, water, food
• provision of care associated with elimination
• maintenance of balance between activity and rest, and solitude and social interaction
• prevention of hazard to human life, functioning, and well-being
• promotion of human functioning and development

Answer 5

universal self-care requisites

Question 6

actions to be undertaken that will provide developmental growth

• provision of conditions that promote development
• engagement in self-development
• prevention of the effects of human conditions that threatens life

Answer 6

developmental self-care requisites

Question 7

required in illness or injury or as a result of medical tests or treatments to correct a condition

• seeking and securing appropriate medical assistance
• being aware of and attending to the effects and results of pathologic conditions and states
• effectively carrying out medically prescribed diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative measures

Answer 7

health deviation self-care requisites

Question 8

done when an adult is incapable of providing continuous self-care

• acting for and doing for others
• guiding others
• supporting another
• providing an environment promoting personal development about meet future demands
• teaching another

Answer 8

5 methods of helping

Question 9

summation of care measures to meet all of an individual’s known self-care requisites

• controlling or managing factors
• fulfilling the activity element of the requisites

Answer 9

therapeutic self-care demand

Question 10

to meet the dependent’s self-care demand when their self-care agency is not adequate or operational

Answer 10

dependent care demand

Question 11

ability to know and meet the therapeutic self-care demand of the dependent person

Answer 11

dependent-care agency

Question 12

care provided to a person who is unable to perform self-care

Answer 12

dependent-care

Question 13

dependent-care provider’s agency is not adequate to meet therapeutic self-care demand of dependent person

Answer 13

dependent-care deficit

Question 14

• a complex property or attribute of people educated and trained as nurses that enable them to act, to know, and to help others meet their therapeutic self-care demands by exercising or developing their own self-care agency
• developed capabilities of persons educated as nurses
• capabilities of nurses to assist persons who provide dependent-care

Answer 14

nursing agency

Question 15

• performed both before and after nursing diagnosis and prescription
• provide guides for achieving needed and foreseen results

Answer 15

nursing design

Question 16

series and sequences of deliberate practical actions of nurses performed at time in coordination with the actions of their patients

• to know and meet components of patients’ therapeutic self-care demands
• to protect and regulate the exercise or development of patient’s self-care agency

Answer 16

nursing systems

Question 17

the individual is unable to engage in those self-care actions

NURSE GIVES TOTAL CARE;
PATIENT ACTION IS LIMITED

• accomplishes patient’s therapeutic self-care
• compensates for patient’s inability to engage in self-care
• supports and protects patient

Answer 17

wholly compensatory system

Question 18

both nurse and patient perform care measures or other actions

NURSE ACTION:
- performs some self-care measures for patient
- compensates for self-care limitations of patient
- assists patient as required

PATIENT ACTION:
- promotes some self-care measures
- regulates self-care agency
- accepts care and assistance from nurse

Answer 18

partly compensatory system

Question 19

the person can carry out self-care activities but requires assistance; aka supportive developmental system

NURSE ACTIONS:
- regulates the exercise and development of self-care agency

PATIENT ACTIONS
- accomplishes self-care

Answer 19

supportive-educative system

Question 20

• specialized assistance to persons with disabilities, making more than ordinary assistance necessary to meet self-care needs
• actions are geared towards independence of the client
• a distinguished human service
• based towards values

Answer 20

nursing

Question 21

• men, women, and children cared for either singly or as social units
• material object of nurses
• integrated human functioning that has the potential for learning and developing

Answer 21

humans / human beings

Question 22

• an external source of influence in the internal interaction of a person’s different aspects
• has physical, chemical, and biological features
• includes the family, culture, and community

Answer 22

environment

Question 23

• being structurally and functionally whole or sound
• state that encompasses both the health of individuals or groups
• ability to reflect on oneself, symbolize experience, and communicate with others

Answer 23

health