The performance or practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health, and well being. Self Care Agency - A human s ability or power to engage in self care. Nursing Agency - Ability to nurse with goals to help people meet their own therapeutic self care demands by helping patient move toward responsible self care action. Exercised for the benefit and well being of others.
Nursing is required when patient shows self care deficit.
Environmental conditions referred to the person s external surroundings and were described as physical and psychological. Orem felt human beings were never isolated from their environment. They exist in them. State of physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease. The nurse s special interest in the patient s continuing therapeutic care.