Orem Self-Care Glossary (Word/Definition)

Question 1

AGENT

Answer 1

The individual or group taking action

Question 2

AGENCY

Answer 2

The power to engage in action to achieve specific goals. The power includes knowledge, skills, motivation, energy and congruency

Question 3

BASIC CONDITIONING FACTORS

Answer 3

Basic factors that influence the individual’s unique response, perceptions, and reactions to health, injury, disease, or hospitalization

Question 4

DELIBERATIVE ACTION

Answer 4

Choosing purposeful goal directed actions that require the coordination of cognitive and sensorimotor capabilities

Question 5

DEPENDENT CARE AGENT

Answer 5

An individual, other than the patient/client or nurse, who takes action to meet the self-care requisites.

Question 6

DEPENDENT CARE AGENCY

Answer 6

The cognitive, psychological, physiological capabilities, and the power essential for an individual/group to engage in the actions necessary to meet the self-care requisites of another individual.

Question 7

MODES OF ASSISTING

Answer 7

Methods of helping that nurses use to assist others include: acting for, guiding, supporting, teaching, and providing an environment conducive to self-care development.

Question 8

NURSING AGENT

Answer 8

The designer of Nursing Systems. The nurse who acts on behalf of the client/patient.

Question 9

NURSING AGENCY

Answer 9

All the specialized competencies and knowledge that enable nurses to provide care that compensates for the self-care or dependent care deficits of others.

Question 10

NURSING PROCESS

Answer 10

A dynamic problem solving approach consisting of two phases: (a) assessment and management, and (b) five basic elements: data collection, problem identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation/modification

Question 11

NURSING SYSTEMS

Answer 11

Nursing systems are a series of actions and interactions used by nurses to facilitate the patients’ capabilities for engaging in self-care to meet their requisites

Question 12

WHOLLY COMPENSATORY NURSING SYSTEM

Answer 12

The nurse compensates for a patient’s/client’s total inability to provide self-care; nurse is responsible for meeting all of the self-care requisites.

Question 13

PARTLY COMPENSATORY NURSING SYSTEM

Answer 13

Both the nurse and patient perform measures or actions to meet the self-care requisites.

Question 14

SUPPORTIVE-EDUCATIVE NURSING SYSTEM

Answer 14

The nurse provides guidance and support to facilitate decision-making, behavior control, and the acquisition of knowledge and skills to meet self-care requisites

Question 15

PATIENT/CLIENT

Answer 15

Individuals, families, and/or communities, with a set of self-care requisites and the capability to meet those requisites, who are the recipient of health care and the focus of nursing

Question 16

SELF-CARE

Answer 16

An individual’s or group’s deliberate action performed for the sake of self to maintain and/or enhance human functioning, health, and well-being

Question 17

SELF-CARE AGENT

Answer 17

Person who takes action on his/her own behalf in order to meet self-care requisites

Question 18

SELF-CARE AGENCY

Answer 18

The cognitive, psychological, physiological capabilities, and the power essential for an individual/group to engage in actions necessary for self-care

Question 19

SELF-CARE DEFICIT

Answer 19

An inequality in the relationship between self-care agency (taking action) and the therapeutic self-care demand where the therapeutic self-care care demand exceeds self-care agency. The self-care deficit determines the need for nursing.

Question 20

SELF-CARE LIMITATION

Answer 20

Expressions, that restrict individuals in providing the amount and kind of self-care that they need under existing and changing conditions and circumstances.

Question 21

SELF-CARE REQUISITES

Answer 21

The purpose/needs that are attained through self-care.
1. Universal self-care requisites are needs common to all humans
2. Developmental self-care requisites are processes necessary for maturation
across the life span.
3. Health deviation self-care requisites are needs that arise as a consequence of
alterations in health state.

Question 22

THERAPEUTIC SELF-CARE DEMAND

Answer 22

The totality of all actions to be performed to meet the self-care requisites.