Orem biography
Biography of Dorothea E. Orem
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Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem was a leading nursing theorist of the 20th century. Her Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory is used today as a basis for nursing curriculum, practice and research. Early LifeDorothea Elizabeth Orem was born on July 15, , in Baltimore, Maryland, the younger of two daughters. Her parents were Benjamin and Adelaide Orem; her father was a bricklayer and her mother was a homemaker.Orem biographyShe considered pursuing dietetics as a career but nursing won out. After graduating from Seton High School in , Dorothea entered the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C., where two of her aunts worked. They were both Daughters of Charity; one was a pharmacist and the other was a nurse who was supervisor of the operating room. Dorothea later cited her experience in the operating room as giving her the opportunity to see the whole picture of nursing in terms of organization and administration. Her sister Monica, after working in Washington for seve |