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Orem’s Self Care Deficit Theory in the Emergency Room Environment

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is easy to forget that nursing, as a necessity, must address both patient and the health care system. Emergency nursing methodologies, to be most effective, must also take into  account other factors such as culture, ethnicity, race, socioeconomic background and educational attainment. Theories have evolved over the years to much more precisely take into account these considerations.  Two such theories are proposed by Dorothea Orem and Hildegard Peplau. While the specifics of these two theories differ on surface appearance, they are quite similar in their consideration  of patient welfare as it relates to need and the ability of an emergency room nursing system to address that need. Isenstein (1999)  identifies the emergency departments of the hospitals across the nation as the "bulwark of the countrys health care system". Indeed, this emergency room network provides critical treatment to thousands  of patients a day. Many patients have what some physicians refer to as a "golden hour", a window of opportunity for treatment which exists only immediately after an injury  or some event like a heart attack if irreparable harm and indeed loss of life is to be prevented (Isenstein, 1999). Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases,  the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein, 1999). In many cases, however, the conditions which are being treated cannot wait for routing through more  conventional treatment options. The hospital emergency room can, in fact, be contended the first line of defense against death. Emergency  services are required in a number of situations ranging from severe injuries to serious allergic reactions to accidental poisonings to seizures to respiratory distress to many complications which fall in