NURSING THEORY

A. Dorothea Elizabeth Orem

Women have been endowed with the responsibility of bearing the

human progeny. The word ‘mother’, is closely linked to maternity. Orem
was one of America’s foremost nursing theorist who developed the Self
Care Deficit Nursing Theory, also known as the Orem Model of Nursing.
Self-care, for the purpose of this theory, is defined as the practice of
activities that individuals perform to maintain their personal health and well-
being.

The importance of the role played by the nurse, in the transformation of an individual has already
been elucidated. It is more so in the case of pregnant woman with disseminated intravascular
coagulation, since pregnancy puts the woman and the fetus into a particularly vulnerable position. Various
techniques and medications now available for safe relief of labor pain, and hence, health care providers
have the responsibility to respond to patient requests for pain management, with active information and
knowledge of the patient as to what drug has been used to relieve the discomforts of labor.

B. Lydia Hall

Lydia Hall was always interested in rehabilitative nursing and the role
that the professional nurse played in the patient’s recovery and welfare.
From her experience at Loeb Center, she developed her “core, care, cure”
theory, which also emerged formally as the model upon when rehabilitative
care was based (Pender, 2016).

The theory contains of three independent but interconnected circles—

the core, the care and the cure. The core is the patient receiving nursing
care and behaves according to his or her feelings and values. The care
circle addresses the role of nurses and is focused on performing the task of nurturing patients. The cure is
the attention given to patients by the medical professionals (Gonzalo, 2019).

In relation to this case, patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation, needs absolute care
provided by nurses, which may include comfort measures, patient instruction, and helping the patient
meet his or her needs when help is needed.