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Orem has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from Georgetown University, Incarnate Word College and Illinois Wesleyan University. Self-care deficit nursing theory. Orem's nursing theory states self-care as a human need, and nurses design interventions to provide or manage self-care actions for persons to recover or maintain health.

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is structured around ten main classes covering the entire world of knowledge; each main class is further structured into ten hierarchical divisions, each having ten divisions of increasing specificity. [1] As a system of library classification the DDC is "arranged by discipline, not subject", so a topic ...

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy is one of the major English encyclopedias of philosophy. [1] The first edition of the encyclopedia was edited by philosopher Paul Edwards (1923–2004), and it was published in two separate printings by Macmillan. [2] The first printing of the first edition appeared in 1967 as an 8-volume set of books.

The Rod of Asclepius, a common symbol for medicine and health care. Medicine is the science [1] and practice [2] of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and ...

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the source, nature and validity of knowledge. Social epistemology – inquiry into the social aspects of knowledge. Formal epistemology – the application of formal models to study knowledge. Metaepistemology – studying the foundations of epistemology itself. Ethics – study of value and ...

Metaphysics studies questions related to what it is for something to exist and what types of existence there are. Metaphysics seeks to answer, in an abstract and fully general manner, the questions of: What is it that exists; and What it is like. [4] Etymology[] The word "metaphysics" derives from the Greek words μετὰ ( metà, "after") and ...