Orem's Self-Care Model: A Professional Nursing Practice Model. This paper discusses Orem's Self-Care Model. Nursing theory is an organized and systematic articulation of a set of statements related to questions in the discipline of nursing. (Caley, p. 302, 1980) The model presented by Dorothea Orem is based on the idea that as human beings, we are engaged in self-care activities that allow us to maintain a state of good health. Orem defines health as "a state of a person that is characterized by soundness or wholeness of developed human structures and of bodily and mental functioning" (Coleman, p. 325, 1980) Utilization of Orem's concepts allows the nurse freedom to develop their own style practice to best meet the self-care needs of any patient. Pages: 3 Bibliography: 4 source(s) listed Filename: 245 Orem Self-Care Model.doc Price: 26.85