Theory of Self-Care Deficit
The central idea of the Theory of Self-Care Deficit is that requirements of persons for nursing are associated with the subjectivity of mature and maturing persons to health-related or helath-care-related action limitations that render them completely or partially unable to know existent and emerging requisities for regulatory care for themselves or their dependents and to engage in the continuing performance of care measures to control performances of care measures to control or in some way factors that are regulatory of their own or their dependents’ fuctioning and develepmont.
Selfcare deficit is a term that expresses the relationship between the action capabilities of individuals and their demands of care. Self-care deficit is an abstract concept that, when expressed in terms of action limitations, provides guides for selection of methods of helping and understanding patient roles in self-care.
Source:
Ann Marriner Tommey, Martha Raile Alligood. Nursing Theorists and Their Work. Mosby: 1998.
