While working on a postoperative unit, the nurse is applying elements of self-care theory, and is assisting a client to attain and manage self-care in wound management. Which one of the fol-lowing nursing pioneers developed this theory?
a. Florence Nightingale
b. Virginia Henderson
c. Dorothea Orem
d. Hildegard Peplau
C
The goal of Orem's theory is to help the client perform self-care.
The goal of Nightingale's theory is to shift the focus from the disease process toward an envi-ronment conducive to healing.
Henderson defined nursing practice as assisting the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities that will contribute to health, recovery, or a peaceful death.
Peplau's theory defined the core of nursing as the interpersonal relationship between the nurse and the client.
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