Dorothea Orem’s focus on self-care: suggests that
helping people to maintain a balance between activity
and rest (a universal self-care requisite), is a legitimate
concern of nursing. The meaning of activity and rest,
the requirements and potential measures for meeting
this self-care requisite, and the factors that might
influence the process are explored. Orem proposed
that self-care action regulates human functioning
and that self-care can be learned for health-related
purposes.