5. The health care industry’s primary focus is the promotion and maintenance of wellness and the prevention/recovery from illness and injury. It requires the patient, the nurse and others working together in order for this to be successful. Using Orem’s theory as a model. We will demonstrate and discuss ways for the nurse to use all of her resources to accomplish the goal of returning the client to being as self reliant as possible ,while addressing his deficits in the interim that it takes to get there.