A client who had a stroke is experiencing left-sided paralysis. The client has become increasingly depressed because of this inability to complete all his ADLs by himself. This inability is considered a self-care deficit according to which nursing theory?
A) Peplau's Interpersonal Theory
B) Orem's Behavioral Nursing Theory
C) Roy's Theory of Adaptation
D) Parse's Theory of Human Becoming
Ans: B
Orem's Behavioral Nursing Theory focuses on self-care deficit. It proposes that the recipients of nursing care are persons who are incapable of continuous self-care or independent care because of health-related or health-derived limitations. The other options are not self-care deficit theories.
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