What question does Orem's Self-Care Model ask?

• A. What do nurses do and what should they do?
• B. How can we measure hospital throughput?
• C. Which medications are most effective?
• D. How to manage patient diet?

Answer: (A)

The focus is the nursing role in supporting patient self-care. Orem's Self-Care Model centers on what patients can do for themselves and how nursing should respond when they cannot perform self-care fully. It asks how nurses should intervene to help patients meet their own self-care needs, bridging the gap between what the patient can do and what is required for health and recovery. This leads to the idea of self-care deficit and the nursing systems—wholly compensatory, partly compensatory, and supportive-educative—where the nurse tailors care to enable self-care. So the best answer describes what nurses do and what they should do to support self-care. The other options aren’t about the nurse’s role in enabling self-care; they focus on hospital efficiency, medication efficacy, or diet management, which aren’t the core concern of this model.