NURSING, 5th Edition, presents a thorough description of the development of Orem's self-care deficit theory
and illustrates its application to nursing practice. The text presents the foundations of nursing as a field of
knowledge and practice and provides an approach to "knowing and thinking nursing," which forms the basis
and organizing framework for nursing actions in all types of practice situations.
Table of Contents
PERSONAL, INTERPERSONAL, AND SOCIAL FEATURES OF NURSING
Understanding nursing
Nursing and society
Interpersonal features of nursing
Health, self-care, and deliberate action
Health care situations and nursing
NUSRING SCIENCE AND NURSING PRACTICE
Nursing science: self-care deficit nursing theory
Therapeutic self-care demand: a patient variable
Self-care agency and dependent-care agency: a patient variable
Nursing agency: the nurse variable
The practice of nursing: the individual as the unit of service
The practice of nursing in familial and community situations
Nurses: education and practice
Appendix A: Elements of nursing history
Appendix B: Features in the history of the development of self-care deficit nursing theory
Appendix C: Obstacles to and other factors that affect meeting universal self-care requisites
Glossary
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