History of Dorothea Orem

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Born in Maryland in 1914

Orem completed her Diploma program in in the 1930's from Providence Hospital School of Nursing, Washington, DC.  She later went on to receive her BSN and MSN from Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. She also completed several different Doctorate degrees over the course of her educational career.  In 1958 she was a consultant to the Office of Education, this is where she began to work on her Self Care Theory.  According to the University of the Philippines "While most of us would recognize the Self-Care Deficit Theory as Orem’s sole contribution to the development of nursing, she is in fact the author of three, namely: the Self-Care Theory, the Theory of Self-Care Deficit and the Theory of Nursing Systems. All three theories are related to one another."  These theories encompass that fact that the patient knowledge and capability to maintain health while being taken care of by others.  When illness occurs the patients seek to find help from nurses to care for and heal them.  Check out some of the following links about Orem.  Tell me what you think!



Dorothea Orem

Orem's Self Care Theory

Self Care

University of the Philipines. Dorothea Orem: Self care deficit theory. Retrieved September 13, 2010 from http://nursingtheories.blogspot.com/2010/07/dorothea-orems-self-care-deficit-theory.html