Dorothea Orem (1914 - 2007)
Personal and Professional Background: Dorothea Orem was born in 1914 in Baltimore, Maryland, where she lived until graduating Seton High School in 1931. After receiving her nursing diploma from the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C. in 1934, Dorothea went on to the Catholic University of America to earn a B.S. in Nursing Education in 1939, and an M.S. in Nursing Education in 1945. Her advanced degrees allowed her to serve as director of the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Detroit, where she also taught biological sciences and nursing. In the 50’s and 60’s, Orem was Assistant and Associate Professor, then Dean of the School of Nursing at the Catholic University of America. Orem’s book of "guidelines for developing curricula for the education of practical nursing” was the foundation of her work. Orem consulted with myriad schools and government agencies sharing her wealth of nursing experience. In 1971 she authored Nursing: Concepts of Practice, the work in which she outlines her theory of nursing, the Self-care Deficit Theory of Nursing. Orem authored more books, spoke internationally, and received honorary degrees from institutions such as Georgetown University and Illinois Wesleyan. She has been honored by Sigma Theta Tau, the National League for Nursing, and the American Academy of Nursing ("Collection," n.d.). |
Callista Roy (1939 - )
Personal and Professional Background: •Sister Callista Roy wa born in Los Angeles, California, in 1939. At 14 years old, she began her work as a pantry girl in a large general hospital. She worked her way up to a maid then a nurse’s aide. After some soul searching, she decided to enter a religious order of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet and has been a member for more than 40 years (Nursing Information January 23, 2012) Professional Background •Professor and Nurse Theorist at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, where she teaches doctoral, master’s and undergraduate students. •Early education completing a B.A. from Mount Saint Mary’s College in Los Angeles •Continuing education earning a M.S. and M.A. in pediatric nursing and sociology, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles •Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco •Best known for her work on the Roy Adaptation Model of Nursing. •Current clinical research is an intervention study to involve lay study partners in cognitive recovery of patients with mild head injury. •Scholarly work in conceptualizing and measuring coping and developing the philosophical basis for the adaptation mode for the epistemology of nursing. •Named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing and the Massachusetts Registered Nurses Association (William, 2012) |