Table of Contents

A Note from Dorothea Orem
Foreword, S.E. Allison and C.S. Balmat
Introduction, S. Taylor and K.M. Renpenning
Part I: Orem's Writings Essential Requirements for the Practice of Nursing: An Analysis (1956)
The Art of Nursing in Hospital Nursing Service: An Analysis (1956)
Nursing Education, 1966-1967 (1966)
Inservice Education and Nursing Practice (1968)
Clinical Evaluation (1968)
Levels of Nursing Education and Practice (1968)
The Nursing Process with a Focus on Data Collection (1969)
Design of Systems of Nursing Assistance and Plans for the Individual (1969)
Design, Production, and Control Operations Required for the Delivery of Nursing on an Agency-Wide Basis (1969)
Nursing and Nursing Education: The Problem of Relations (circa late 1960s)
Processes in the Development of a Conceptual Framework for Teaching Nursing and for the Practice of Nursing (1973)
Some Premises and Rules for Use in Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing (1974)
Validity in Theory: A Therapeutic Self-Care Demand for Nursing Practice (1976)
Nursing Theories and Their Function as Conceptual Models for Nursing Practice and Curriculum Development (1978)
Scholarly Endeavors: Eight Sets of Work Operations for Advancing One's Scholarship (revised 1979)
The Structure of Antecedent Nursing Knowledge (1979)
Nursing: A Dilemma for Higher Education (1982)
A System of Concept about Nursing: A Personal History (1984)
Self-Care Model of Standards for College Health Nursing (1986)
Some Remarks Relevant to Nursing Practice (1986)
Nurses and Nursing Knowledge (1987)
Development and Dissemination of a General Theory of Nursing: The Past, Present, and Future (1987)
Changes in Professional Nursing Practice Associated with Nurses' Use of Orem's General Theory of Nursing (1987)
Self-Care and Health Promotion: Understanding Self Care (1987)
Motivating Self-Care -- The Reality: Persons as Self-Care Agents (1987)
The Profession and Nursing Science (1988)
Theory Development in Nursing (1988)
The Development of the Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing: Events and Circumstances (1988)
A Perspective on Theory-Based Nursing (1988)
Multiple Roles of Nurses (probably 1988)
Nursing Systems (1989)
Perception of Theory Application Around the World (1990)
Some Considerations in the Use of One General Theory of Nursing to Formalize the Provision of Nursing at Crawford Long Hospital (1992)
Work to Be Done (1993)
The World of the Nurse (1996)
Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory Development Group (1997)
The Formalization of General and Subsidiary Self-Care Requisites and Components of Associated Therapeutic Self-Care Demand for a Particular Health State (1998)
Nursing Practice Models (undated)

Part II: International Perspectives on Orem's Work
The Contribution of Self-Care Deficit Theory to Nursing in Mexico, E.C. Gallegos
The Application of Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory in Germany, G. Bekel
An Integrative Review and Meta-analysis of Self-Care Research in Thailand, 1988-1999, S. Hanucharurnkul, J. Wittya-Sooporn, Y. Leucha, W. Maneesriwongul

About the Author

Katherine Renpenning , MScN, is a nursing consultant whose career has primarily focused on the utility of self-care deficit nursing theory in improving nursing practice and nursing education.

Susan G. Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor Emerita, Sinclair School of Nursing at University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Taylor has presented nationally and internationally on Orem's Self Care Theory. She is the recipient of many awards, including Alumnae of the Year from Alverno College, Missouri Tribute to Nurses Nurse Educator, Kemper Fellow for Teaching Excellence, and the MO Alumni Association Faculty Award.