Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory focuses on assisting individuals with self-care practices to maintain health and recover from illness or injury. The theory categorizes nursing systems into wholly compensatory, partly compensatory, and supportive-educative. Orem's theory of health incorporates physical, psychological, interpersonal, and social health as the components of overall structural wholeness.

1. Orem’s Self Care Deficit Theory:
Nursing
“Involves assisting individual with self-care practices to sustain life and health,
recover from disease or injury, and cope with their effects (Orem, 1985).”
Wholly Partly Supportive
• Turning
• Cleaning
• Feeding
• Total Care
• Assistance walking
• Wound Care
• Medication admin.
• Teaching
• Encouraging
• Guiding
Speaker note: Orem’s Nursing systems can be subdivided into three distinct categories with examples as shown above.

2. Orem’s Self Care Deficit Theory:
Health
“State in which human beings are structurally and
functionally whole or sound (Orem, 1995).”
Physical Psychological Interpersonal Social
• Fitness
• Nutrition
• Exercise
• Happy
• Sad
• Developmental age
Ability to maintain
therapeutic
relationships
through all
developmental
stages of life.
Attending group
events,
participating in
community events
or maintaining
employment.
Speaker note: Orem’s theory of health incorporates four main subdivisions physical health,
psychological health, interpersonal health and social health which make up the structural
wholeness of health (Orem, 1995).

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