Nursing Theorist

Running head : Dorothea Orem

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The profession of nursing is built on many nursing theories . One of the famous nursing theories is the `Orem model of nursing ' which was developed by Dorothea Orem between 1950 and 2001 . This theory is also known as `Self Care Model of Nursing ' which encourages patients to be as independent as possible . I am hereby summarizing an article by Allison (2008 ) published in the Self-Care and

Dependent-Care Nursing journal The author of this article , a close friend and student of the famous nursing theorist Dorothea Orem , writes about the nature of this wonderful scholar who is one of the pioneers in the field of nursing knowledge

The author knew Dorothea from 1961 as a professor in nursing when the revered nursing scholar used to teach seminars on administration of nursing at the Catholic University of America . In the year 1970 , the nursing theorist , left her faculty position only to write her first book which conceptualized nursing . Later , a group of nurses were brought together to form the Nursing Development Conference Group (NDCG ) whose objective was to develop nursing and formalize nursing knowledge Dorothea was infact the moderator and the leader of this group . The group discussed nursing cases and important information was analyzed and shared amongst the members of the group . Dorothea encouraged others to think and put in ideas about nursing knowledge and management . She...