Self- Care Theory in Nursing: Selected Papers of Dorothea Orem / Edition 1

by Katherine Renpenning MScN, Susan Gebhardt Taylor MSN, PhD, FAAN

Overview

Few have approached the fundamental questions of nursing in such an insightful, systematic, and clearsighted way as Dorothea Orem. This book is a collection of many of the presentations and writings that are not included in her previous books. It presents a fascinating view of the development of Orem's theory of self care deficit over a forty-year period, along with its ramifications for nursing education and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826117250
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/19/2003
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Katherine Renpenning , MScN, is a nursing consultant whose career has primarily focused on the utility of self-care deficit nursing theory in improving nursing practice and nursing education.

Susan G. Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor Emerita, Sinclair School of Nursing at University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Taylor has presented nationally and internationally on Orem's Self Care Theory. She is the recipient of many awards, including Alumnae of the Year from Alverno College, Missouri Tribute to Nurses Nurse Educator, Kemper Fellow for Teaching Excellence, and the MO Alumni Association Faculty Award.

Table of Contents

A Note from Dorothea Orem
Foreword, S.E. Allison and C.S. Balmat
Introduction, S. Taylor and K.M. Renpenning
Part I: Orem's Writings
• Essential Requirements for the Practice of Nursing: An Analysis (1956)
• The Art of Nursing in Hospital Nursing Service: An Analysis (1956)
• Nursing Education, 1966-1967 (1966)
• Inservice Education and Nursing Practice (1968)
• Clinical Evaluation (1968)
• Levels of Nursing Education and Practice (1968)
• The Nursing Process with a Focus on Data Collection (1969)
• Design of Systems of Nursing Assistance and Plans for the Individual (1969)
• Design, Production, and Control Operations Required for the Delivery of Nursing on an Agency-Wide Basis (1969)
• Nursing and Nursing Education: The Problem of Relations (circa late 1960s)
• Processes in the Development of a Conceptual Framework for Teaching Nursing and for the Practice of Nursing (1973)
• Some Premises and Rules for Use in Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing (1974)
• Validity in Theory: A Therapeutic Self-Care Demand for Nursing Practice (1976)
• Nursing Theories and Their Function as Conceptual Models for Nursing Practice and Curriculum Development (1978)
• Scholarly Endeavors: Eight Sets of Work Operations for Advancing One's Scholarship (revised 1979)
• The Structure of Antecedent Nursing Knowledge (1979)
• Nursing: A Dilemma for Higher Education (1982)
• A System of Concept about Nursing: A Personal History (1984)
• Self-Care Model of Standards for College Health Nursing (1986)
• Some Remarks Relevant to Nursing Practice (1986)
• Nurses and Nursing Knowledge (1987)
• Development and Dissemination of a General Theory of Nursing: The Past, Present, and Future (1987)
• Changes in Professional Nursing Practice Associated with Nurses' Use of Orem's General Theory of Nursing (1987)
• Self-Care and Health Promotion: Understanding Self Care (1987)
• Motivating Self-Care — The Reality: Persons as Self-Care Agents (1987)
• The Profession and Nursing Science (1988)
• Theory Development in Nursing (1988)
• The Development of the Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing: Events and Circumstances (1988)
• A Perspective on Theory-Based Nursing (1988)
• Multiple Roles of Nurses (probably 1988)
• Nursing Systems (1989)
• Perception of Theory Application Around the World (1990)
• Some Considerations in the Use of One General Theory of Nursing to Formalize the Provision of Nursing at Crawford Long Hospital (1992)
• Work to Be Done (1993)
• The World of the Nurse (1996)
• Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory Development Group (1997)
• The Formalization of General and Subsidiary Self-Care Requisites and Components of Associated Therapeutic Self-Care Demand for a Particular Health State (1998)
• Nursing Practice Models (undated)
Part II: International Perspectives on Orem's Work
• The Contribution of Self-Care Deficit Theory to Nursing in Mexico, E.C. Gallegos
• The Application of Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory in Germany, G. Bekel
• An Integrative Review and Meta-analysis of Self-Care Research in Thailand, 1988-1999, S. Hanucharurnkul, J. Wittya-Sooporn, Y. Leucha, W. Maneesriwongul

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A valid general theory of nursing...keeps the nurse on a nursing course, preventing the nurse from being lost in the maze of detail...It is like a map..."
—Dorothea Orem (as quoted in book).

"This book is a collection of many of the presentations and writings that are not included in Dorothea Orem's previous books."—Doody Enterprises, Inc.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jayalakshmi Jambunathan, PhD, MSN, MA, BSN, BSc (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description: This book is a collection of papers of Dorothea Orem and provides insight into self-care deficit theory development and the range of Orem's thinking about nursing over the years.
Purpose: The purpose is to enlighten nurses who are practitioners, educators, and researchers on the development of Orem's ideas about nursing theory education and practice over time. This is a much needed book as it historically and chronologically reflects time-specific conditions, events, and issues in nursing about which nurses had questions and had sought answers.
Audience: The book is general in its orientation and can hence appeal to a larger audience — practicing nurses, educators, and researchers, all of whom can ensure care concomitant with nursing education and research. The authors of the book seem to be credible authorities as they have worked closely with Orem in presenting a historical and chronological document that is conceptually rich and pithy, without sacrificing the intent of Orem's theory and her ideas on theory development with implications for education, practice, and administration.
Features: The book covers the historical and cultural context of the roots of the development of Orem's self care deficit theory for nursing education, practice and nursing science. The book is insightful in the way it captures the fundamental questions related to theory development and its implications for practice, education, and research. The chronological and systematic way of presentation helps the reader to understand Orem's continued thought process related to developing her conceptualizations for the theory. The chapters on international perspectives on Orem's work are noteworthy for their delineation of the utilization and application of the self-care deficit theory in education, practice, research, and administration, cross-culturally. The figures and tables provided in almost all chapters make for easy reading and the book itself is delightful in its presentation of the historical context of the development of Orem's ideas.
Assessment: The book provides an illuminating and quintessential portrayal of the historical context of the inner working and ideas of Orem, relative to her self-care deficit theory development. The book will be valuable and useful to all practicing nurses contemplating application of the theory as well as to educators and researchers teaching and contributing further to the development of nursing science.

Doody's Review Service

Reviewer: Jayalakshmi Jambunathan, PhD, MSN, MA, BSN, BSc (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description: This book is a collection of papers of Dorothea Orem and provides insight into self-care deficit theory development and the range of Orem's thinking about nursing over the years.
Purpose: The purpose is to enlighten nurses who are practitioners, educators, and researchers on the development of Orem's ideas about nursing theory education and practice over time. This is a much needed book as it historically and chronologically reflects time-specific conditions, events, and issues in nursing about which nurses had questions and had sought answers.
Audience: The book is general in its orientation and can hence appeal to a larger audience — practicing nurses, educators, and researchers, all of whom can ensure care concomitant with nursing education and research. The authors of the book seem to be credible authorities as they have worked closely with Orem in presenting a historical and chronological document that is conceptually rich and pithy, without sacrificing the intent of Orem's theory and her ideas on theory development with implications for education, practice, and administration.
Features: The book covers the historical and cultural context of the roots of the development of Orem's self care deficit theory for nursing education, practice and nursing science. The book is insightful in the way it captures the fundamental questions related to theory development and its implications for practice, education, and research. The chronological and systematic way of presentation helps the reader to understand Orem's continued thought process related to developing her conceptualizations for the theory. The chapters on international perspectives on Orem's work are noteworthy for their delineation of the utilization and application of the self-care deficit theory in education, practice, research, and administration, cross-culturally. The figures and tables provided in almost all chapters make for easy reading and the book itself is delightful in its presentation of the historical context of the development of Orem's ideas.
Assessment: The book provides an illuminating and quintessential portrayal of the historical context of the inner working and ideas of Orem, relative to her self-care deficit theory development. The book will be valuable and useful to all practicing nurses contemplating application of the theory as well as to educators and researchers teaching and contributing further to the development of nursing science.