NS110 Midterm

• 1. Age
• 2. Gender
• 3. Developmental State
• 4. Relevant life experience
• 5. Health care system
• 6. Health state
• 7. Socio-cultural orientation
• 8. Available Resources

• specific abilities required to engage in self-care
• 1. Aware of self and surrounding
• 2. Physical energy to carry out self-care actions
• 3. Ability to control body position and movements
• 4. Ability to reason
• 5. Motivation
• 6. Ability to make and implement decisions regarding self-care
• 7. Ability to acquire, retain and utilize knowledge: good attention span, short term memory, long term memory
• 8. Repetoire of skills
• 9. Ability to order self care actions
• Ability to perform self care actions consistently and to fit them into person, family and community life

• 1. Air
• 2. Water
• 3. Food
• 4. Elimination
• 5. Activity/Rest
• 6. Social/solitude
• 7. Prevention of hazards
• 8. Promotion of normalcy

Those associated with the developmental process and events occurring throughout the lifecycle

• 1. Environment: physical setting, people, economic and social components
• 2. Age
• 3. Education
• 4. Present knowledge, skills, attitudes and ability to aqcuire the following developmental stages

• 1. Educational deprivation
• 2. Problems of social adaptation
• 3. Failure of individuation
• 4. Loss of relatives, friends, associates
• 5. Loss of occupational security and or possesions
• 6. Abrupt change of residence to an unfamiliar environmental
• 7. Status-associated problems
• 8. Poor health or disability
• 9. Oppressive living conditions
• 10. Terminal illness and impending death

• 1. Each individual is a psycho-socio-biological being who is rational and responsible for himself/herself.
• 2. Each individual exists in an environment that contains biological, physical, psychological and social components. Each individual is constantly in interaction with his/her environment.
• 3. Health is a dynamic state of wholeness or integrity of the individual.
• 4. All persons must meet certain conditions to maintain life and well-being. Human beings require continuous inputs to themselves and their environment to remain alive and functioning.
• 5. Individuals act deliberately in performing care for themselves and others in identifying needs for input and making needed inputs.
• 6. Human beings experience limitations in ability to engage in the inputs for self and others for sustaining life and regulating function.
• 7. Individuals, families and groups discover, develop and transmit to others ways and means to identify needs for and make inputs to self and others. (Orem, 1985)

the practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health and well-being

• the ability of an individual to initiate and perform activities for himself/herself to maintain life health and well-being
• (Human agency is the power to act deliberately.)

the person providing the self-care

the provider of infant care, childcare or dependent adult care

purposes or goals to be attained through the practice of self-care three types of requisites are identified universal, developmental and health-deviation.