Orem's Self Care Model (Rachel Sampson)

According to Orem's self-care theory concepts, which concept is the individual's ability to perform self-care?

• self-care agency

• self-care

• self-care requisites

• therapeutic self-care demand

Self-care agency is the individuals ability to perform self-care activities. It consists of two agents: self-care agent and dependent-care agent.

• True

• False

In the categories of self-care requisites which one would include maintaining intake and elimination of air, food, and water?

• developmental requisites

• life requisites

• universal requisites

• health deviation

Self-care deficit results when the self-care agency is not adequate to meet the known self-care demand.

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT one of the five methods of helping in Orem's self-care deficit theory?

• guiding

• supporting

• questioning

• teaching

Infants, the aged, the ill, and the disabled would fall under the self-care agency?

• True

• False

What year did Dorothea Orem first publish her Self-Care Deficit Theory?

• 1919

• 1971

• 1953

• 1984

Orem's self-care theory provides a way of looking at and investigating what ________ do.

• patients

• nurses

• managers

• social workers

Self-care refers to those activities an individual (man) performs independently throughout life to promote and maintain personal well-being.

• True

• False

Which of the following refers to all self-care activities required to meet the requisites for certain conditions and circumstances, such as illness?

• developmental requisites

• therapeutic self-care demand

• health deviation requisites

• universal requsites