Dorothea Orem, RN, MSN, Ed, FAAN, began to develop foundations for the selfcare deficit theory of nursing in the 1950s, when the curriculums of most nursing education programs were based on conceptual models from medicine, psychology, and sociology. Thus, Orem is a pioneer in the development of distinctive nursing knowledge. The development of the self-care deficit theory of nursing has been de...

the effect of orem self-care program performance on the self- care ability in elderly     hashemlo l [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, khalkhali h [3]     received: 3 dec , 2012 accepted: 12 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : increase in the rate of elderly population in developing countries can cause emotional, social and health problems. using nursing theories especially orem theor...

Construct equivalence is a necessary condition for establishing validity in comparative cross-cultural studies. This paper explores the relationship between equivalence and validity as presently understood in the international business literature. Various methodologies for strengthening equivalence and validity are discussed. _____________________________________________________________________...

The authors describe how they employed the perspectives of two extant nursing theories, Roy and Orem, in understanding the complex needs of a school-age child who required tube feeding during school. In addition, they explain how sociopolitical knowing was skillfully used by the school nurse to effect positive change in both the health and the school experience of the schoolage child.

Background The World Health Organization has introduced osteoporosis as the fourth main enemy of mankind. Self care has served as a new trend in health care. Objective Educational intervention for osteoporosis related preventive self care in female university students using the Orem model. Methods This study is a controlled filed trial, carried out with female students of Islamic Azad Unive...

Reviews of daily time-series mortality studies from many cities throughout the world suggest that daily mortality counts are associated with short-term changes in particulate matter (PM) air pollution. One U.S. city, however, with conspicuously weak PM-mortality associations was Salt Lake City, Utah; however, relatively robust PM-mortality associations have been observed in a neighboring metrop...