Why Is Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory Applicable to Community

question 3

Multiple Choice

Why is Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory applicable to community health nursing practice?

• A) Because the underlying self-care philosophy has been embraced by community health nursing
• B) Because in the end we all need to take care of ourselves
• C) Because all nursing theories are applicable to specialty practice areas
• D) Because it is important to know about acute care nursing issues

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Definitions:

Protein-Coding Sequence

A protein-coding sequence is a segment of DNA or RNA that contains the information necessary to construct a protein, critical for the functioning of cells and organisms.

Adaptation

An inherited aspect of an individual that allows it to outcompete other members of the same population that lack the trait (or that have a different version of the trait). Adaptations are traits that have evolved through the mechanism of natural selection.

Homologous

Homologous refers to structures or genes that originate from a common ancestor, often performing similar or related functions in different organisms.

Convergent

The evolutionary process wherein organisms not closely related independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches.