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Self-Care Operations and Nursing Interventions for Children With Cancer and Their Parents

Jean Burley Moore, RN; PhD

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Asher E. Beckwitt, MA

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

As individuals assume more responsibility for their healthcare, nurses need to explore methods to support families’ self-care practices. The purpose of this qualitative study was to: (a) determine what self-care and dependent-care operations children and parents perform to address self-care requisites, and (b) explore nursing interventions to promote operations. Orem’s theory of self-care, theory of self-care deficit, and theory of nursing system were employed. Twenty-seven participants were interviewed about their cancer experiences. Results were that children and parents performed estimative, transitional, and productive operations to meet self-care requisites. Various nursing interventions that promoted these operations were identified. Recommendations were made for further interventions to support families.

Key Words: children • dependent-care • operations • Orem • self-care

Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, 147-156 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0894318406286594
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