A patient has had no visitors for the 2 weeks he has been on your unit. The patient seems dejected and insists on having his few belongings in sight at all times. The nurse realizes that he may be experiencing what kind of need?

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Orem considers self-care as meeting one's own basic needs, including the self-care requisites of universal, developmental, and health-deviation needs. A developmental need, such as trust, love, and belonging, changes as a person moves through each life-cycle period. A health-deviation need is based on an individual's genetic or constitutional deviations from normal. A universal need is an essential requirement for everyone: food, shelter, air, water, and other basic needs. A health continuum need is not a true term.

A Patient Has Had No Visitors for the 2 Weeks