NURSING

Nursing Theorist by Dorothea E Orem

Nursing Theorist by Dorothea E Orem

Dorothea Orem's self-care shortfall theory, a general theory of nursing, is one of the most broadly utilised forms in nursing today. In 1914, Dorothea Orem was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She obtained her nursing diploma in the early 1930's from Providence Hospital School of Nursing, Washington D.C. In supplement to making a BSN Ed. (1939) and MSN Ed. (1945), she has obtained three honorary doctorates and an Alumni Achievement Award for Nursing Theory in 1980 from Catholic University of America (Hartweg, 1995).

Early in her vocation, Orem profited skilled ...