The nurse makes a home visit to an elderly man who was referred for depression. She finds him thin and unkempt, and diagnoses him with self-care deficit
According to Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing, encouraging the client to meet his own needs increases the client's: a. self-care agency
b. nursing agency
c. self-care deficit
d. independent agency
A
According to Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing, encouraging the client to meet his own needs increases the client's sense of self-care agency. The concept of nursing agency refers to nursing activities required to compensate for the client's inability to meet his own self-care requirements.
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