Background:

Dorothea Elizabeth Orem has described what she called the general theory of nursing, which consists of three related theories: self-care, self-care deficit and the theory of nursing systems.

Objective:

to support the meta-paradigmatic models of Dorothea Elizabeth Orem.

Methods:

a systematic bibliographic review was carried out to develop a reflexive critical analysis of the content of original and review articles, published in Spanish and English between 2001 and 2019. The key words used were advanced practice nursing, nursing definition of advanced practice, advanced practice nursing history the search was performed in the SciELO, Pubmed/Medline, Ebsco, ClinicalKey, Springer, Web of Science, Infomed databases.

Results:

highlight topics within the topic such as: Meta-paradigm of nursing according to Dorothea Elizabeth Orem, The theory of self-care, the theory of self-care deficit, the theory of nursing systems.

Conclusions:

the model of Dorothea Elizabeth Orem provides a conceptual framework and establishes a series of meta-paradigmatic concepts, definitions, objectives, to highlight what is related to the care of the person, for what is considered must be accepted for the development and strengthening of Cuban nursing.

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