Dorothea Orem’s Self Care Deficit nursing theory is defined as goal-oriented activities that are set towards generating interest in the part of the client to maintain life and health development. They main purpose of the theory is to make the client perform self-care activities in order to live independently. Self Care Deficit: Metaparadigms in Nursing [...] Read more »
Biography of Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem is one of America’s foremost nursing theorists. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1914. Orem started her nursing career at Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington D.C., where she received a diploma of nursing in the early 1930’s. Dorothea Orem later completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in the Catholic University [...] Read more »