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Reflection Paper: Cavite State University Don Severino de Las Alas Campus

This reflection paper discusses Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing. It summarizes that Orem developed three related theories: the theory of self-care, the self-care deficit theory, and the theory of nursing systems. It also describes Orem's three basic nursing systems as wholly compensatory, partly compensatory, and supportive-educative. The paper explains key concepts such as self-care, self-care deficit, and how Orem's theory guides nursing practice to meet patient needs. It emphasizes that understanding nursing theories helps build a philosophy to strive in the nursing profession and properly perform established nursing practices.

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Reflection Paper: Cavite State University Don Severino de Las Alas Campus

This reflection paper discusses Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing. It summarizes that Orem developed three related theories: the theory of self-care, the self-care deficit theory, and the theory of nursing systems. It also describes Orem's three basic nursing systems as wholly compensatory, partly compensatory, and supportive-educative. The paper explains key concepts such as self-care, self-care deficit, and how Orem's theory guides nursing practice to meet patient needs. It emphasizes that understanding nursing theories helps build a philosophy to strive in the nursing profession and properly perform established nursing practices.

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Republic of the Philippines

CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY


Don Severino de las Alas Campus
Indang, Cavite

REFLECTION PAPER
Topic: Dorothea Orem’s Theory

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in


Theoretical Foundations of Nursing (NURS01)

SUBMITTED TO:

JAY LOUIE MADLANGBAYAN, RN, CCN


NURS 01, Instructor

SUBMITTED BY:

CHAVEZ, JOSHUA E.

BSN 1-3, Student

Date:

October 12, 2018


TOPIC: Dorothea Orem’s Theory

Summary of the report

Dorothea Orem’s Theory developed the Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing, which is

composed of three interrelated theories: (1) the theory of self-care, (2) the self-care deficit

theory, and (3) the theory of nursing systems. She also tackles about The Three Basic Nursing

Systems; these are the wholly compensatory nursing system, the partly compensatory nursing

system, and the supportive-educative system. This theory requires special knowledge , skills

which deals on meeting the client’s needs.

Learning’s

Dorthea Orem described her Theory of Self-Care as the performance or practice of activities that

individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health and well-being. She

sets the definition of self-care deficit as Self-care Deficit delineates when nursing is needed it

also explains that deficit defends on how much care is needed by the patient. According to her

nursing is required to respond towards the patients’ needs it shall provide all the needs of the

patients but with the certain limits and in accordance to their inability to function. Dorethea

Orem also describes the theory of nursing systems as the product of a series of relations between

the nurse and his/her patients. This system is activated when the client’s therapeutic self-care

demand exceeds available self-care agency, leading to the need for nursing. Then the three basic

nursing systems. The wholly compensatory nursing system is represented by a situation in which

the individual is unable to engage in those self-care actions requiring self-directed and controlled

ambulation and manipulative movement or the medical prescription to refrain from such

activity. Persons with these limitations are socially dependent on others for their continued

existence and well-being. Then the partly compensatory nursing system is represented by a

situation in which both nurse and perform care measures or other actions involving manipulative

tasks or ambulation. The patient or the nurse may have the major role in the performance of care

measures. While the supportive-educative system also known as supportive-developmental


system, the person is able to perform or can and should learn to perform required measures of

externally or internally oriented therapeutic self-care but cannot do so without assistance.

Importance to Nursing

The importance of this in our selected course which is nursing, Is that this basic

knowledge in some theory and theorist will help us to fully understand what the true purpose of

nursing. Also it will help us to build our own philosophy in life that will keep us moving and

striving even further to reach our dreams. It will also help us in dealing nursing practices by

means of guiding the proper way of giving attention or simply the needs of the patient. In

additional it will help us to understand why and how those practices will help us to perform well

in the present establish nursing practices and what are the required key elements required in this

theory.

CHAVEZ, JOSHIUA E.

(201813089)

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