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APPLICATION OF NURSING THEORY TO CLINICAL PRACTICE

er notion that is central to Orem's Self-Care Model of Nursing, Seedhouse (2000) states, is the idea that each person has need of a composite of self-care actions; the collective of these actions is defined by the Model as the "therapeutic self-care demand" (see: Orem, Taylor & McLaughlin, 2003). If the therapeutic self-care demand is greater than the self-care agency can provide, there is said to be a self-care deficit. When this occurs, nursing assistance is needed.

The Non-Nursing Theory that underlies Orem's Self-Care Model is that of Developmental Theory. According to Seedhouse (2000), developmental theories associate given phenomena of interest to maturational and/or biogenetic changes in the life cycle. If applied to an organization, these would be maturational changes within the organizational system. The central notion here is that, over time, there are routine and patterned changes that take place in any system (be that system biological or non-biological) and be it a system of one (such as a body system) or a system composed of many elements into a cohesive whole (e.g., the employees at a plant).

In order to understand how developmental theory supports Orem's Self-Care Model, it is helpful to first look at an important element of Orem's model. One key element is the conceptualization of a self-care deficit and a self-care requisite or DSCR. According to Orem, Taylor and McLaughlin (2003), the self-health care deficit can be either universal or developmental in

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