Developing a nurse-led education program to enhance self-care agency in leg ulcer patients.
Patients with leg ulceration face changing self-care demands associated with the consequences of the disease and treatment. Often patients can manage their self-care for some time, but new therapeutic self-care demands may emerge that require more complex self-care actions. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a nurse-led education program in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany, that aims to help patients with leg ulcers to meet their therapeutic self-care demands. Orem's self-care deficit nursing theory is used as a framework to provide the conceptual context for this supportive-educative nursing system that is being tested in a multi-site clinical trial.
Herber
Oliver R
OR
Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
Schnepp
Wilfried
W
Rieger
Monika A
MA
D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000628:therapy*; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D012648:Self Care