"'Dorothea Orem helped us to carve out the piece of patient care that belongs exclusively to Nursing. She will be revered by professional nurses for all the decades to come.' Daniel McBride, a Savannahian who received his nursing degree in 1992 ...recalled that Dr. Orem’s theory of moving the client toward self-care was the basis of his nursing program, adding: 'Her name and her theory of nursing formed the first memories I have of my nursing education'” (Southern Cross, 2007).