ented three systems of self-care within the professional nursing practice: the compensatory system with total patient care; the partially compensatory system with shared patient responsibility for self-care; and the educative-development system with full client responsibility for self-care with a nurse consultant.
Pender's theory was used to develop the patient-perception component of this nursing philosophy and model. As with Pender's Health Promotion Model, the current philosophy includes the need to focus on the perceptions of the cli
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