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DOROTHEA OREM

            Dorothea Elizabeth Orem (July 15, 1914 – June 22, 2007) was one of America’s foremost nursing theorists who developed the Self-Care Nursing Theory, also known as the Orem Model of Nursing.

Orem was born in July 15, 1914 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Her father was a construction worker and her mother is a homemaker. She was the youngest among two daughters.

In the early 1930s, she earned her nursing diploma from the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C.

She went on to complete her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1939 and her Master of Science in Nursing in 1945, both from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Orem attended Seton High School in Baltimore and graduated in 1931.

She received a diploma from the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C. in 193