Grand Nursing Theory Name: Institution: Course: Date: Theorist Background Dorothea Elizabeth Orem was born in the year 1914 in Baltimore, Maryland and died in the year 2007. During her prime years she became known as one of the leading nursing theorists in America, after she developed the Self Care Nursing Theory (Wayne, 2014). Earning her diploma in the 1930s from the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington in D.C. she cleared her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in the year 1939 and then her Masters of Science in nursing later in 1945at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. she first helped publish works related to Guidelines for Developing Curricula for the Education of Practical Nurses in the year 1959 (Wayne, 2014). She later published the Nursing: Concepts of Practice outlining the elements of her theory. Between the 70s and the 80s she published many p