Why Is Doing Nursing Important
When someone thinks of nursing, they think of the action of doing nursing. What most people do not realize is that, although doing nursing is important, the thinking and theory behind nursing is just as important. Potter and Perry describe a nursing theory as “a concept of a specific aspect of nursing communicated for the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting, and/or prescribing nursing care” (Potter & Perry, 2009). Dorothea Orem is a well-known nursing theorist who believed in the theory of self-care, which focuses on the strategies needed to meet the patient’s self-care needs.