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Containing 97 Questions with Verified
Solutions Updated 2024-2025
Self-Care Deficit - Answer: Dorothea E. Orem
describes why and how people care for themselves - Answer: Theory of self-care
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which describes why people can be helped through nursing - Answer: Theory of
self-care deficits
describe and explain relationship that must be brought about and maintained for
nursing to be produced - Answer: Theory of nursing system
Comprises the practice of activities that maturing and mature persons initiate and
perform, within time frames, on their own behalf in the interest of maintaining
life, healthful functioning, continuing personal development and well-being -
Answer: Self care
Requirements that a person must do and perform in order to achieve wellbeing. -
Answer: Self-care Requisites
Universally set goals, associated with life processes, Common to all - Answer:
Universal Self-care requisites
Associated with developmental process - Answer: Developmental self-care
requisites
Required in conditions of illness, injury or disease - Answer: Health deviation self-
care requisite
Nursing is required when an adult is incapable or limited in the provision of
continuous effective self-care - Answer: Theory of self-care deficit
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Acting for and doing for others
Guiding others
Supporting another
Providing an environment to promote pts ability
Teaching another - Answer: 5 methods of helping
Describes how the patient's self-care needs will be met by the nurse, the patient
or both - Answer: Theory of nursing
Patient is dependent
Nurse is expected to accomplish all the patient's therapeutic self-care - Answer:
Wholly compensatory
The patient can meet some needs
Needs nursing assistance
Both the nurse and the patient engage in meeting self-care needs - Answer:
Partially compensatory
Patient can meet self-care requisites but needs assistance with decision making or
knowledge and skills to learn self-care - Answer: Supportive-educative system
the summation of all activities needed to alleviate the existing disease or illness -
Answer: Therapeutic Self Care Demand