SISTER CALLISTA ROY Flashcards
ADAPTATION MODEL
SISTER CALLISTA ROY
• Born on October 14, 1939 in Los Angeles California
SISTER CALLISTA ROY
• Nurse theorist and professor at the William F Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, Massachusetts
SISTER CALLISTA ROY
• Earned her BS Nursing in 1963 from Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles
SISTER CALLISTA ROY
• MA degree in Pediatric Nursing (1966)
SISTER CALLISTA ROY
• Doctorate in Sociology (1977)
SISTER CALLISTA ROY
Books and Journal Articles:
• Introducing to Nursing: An Adaptation Model
• Essentials of the Roy Adaptation Model
• Roy Adaptation Model: The Definitive Statement
SISTER CALLISTA ROY
- The model provides a way of thinking about people and their environment that is useful in any setting. It helps one prioritize care and challenges the nurse to move the patient from survival to transformation
Adaptation Model
- View person as a biopsychosocial being in constant interaction with a changing environment
Person
- Open adaptive system who uses skills to deal with stressors
Person
- Physiologic-physical
- Self-concept group identity
- Role function
- Interdependence
- Four adaptive modes:
physical and chemical processes involved in the function and activities of living organisms
- Physiologic-physical
psychological and spiritual integrity
- Self-concept group identity
roles that individuals occupy in society fulfilling the need for social integrity
- Role function
close relationship of people and their purpose
- Interdependence
- Conditions, circumstances and influences that surround and affect the development and behavior of the person
Environment
- Describe stressors as stimuli
Environment
- Health and illness are a continuum with many different states or degrees possible
Health
- Process of being and becoming an integrated and whole person
Health
process and outcome whereby thinking and feeling use conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration
Adaptation
- Science and practice that expands adaptive abilities and enhances person and environment transformation
Nursing
- About the decrease, enhancement, modification and alteration of the stimulus to achieve adaptation
Nursing
Focal
Contextual
Residual
Types of stimuli
Those most immediately confronting the person, it attracts the most attention
Focal
All other stimuli that strengthens the effect of the focal stimulus
Contextual
Those stimuli that can affect the focal stimulus but the effects are unclear
Residual
- Regulator subsystem
2. Cognator subsystem
2 Categories of Coping Mechanisms
transpires through neutral, chemical and endocrine processes like the increase in vital signs, increase production of gastric acid, rise in blood sugar level
- Regulator subsystem
occurs through cognitive-emotive processes- perceptual and information processing, learning, judgement, and emotion
- Cognator subsystem
goal-oriented, problem solving approach to guide the provision of comprehensive, competent nursing care to a person or group of persons
• Nursing process
data gathering about the behavior of the person as an adaptive system in each of the adaptive models
• Assessment
o Observable
o Non-Observable
Assessment Data
formulation of statements that interpret data about the adaptation status of the person, including the behavior and most relevant stimuli
• Nursing Diagnosis
establishment of clear statements of the behavioral outcomes for nursing care which is realistic and attainable
• Goal setting
- Done together with the client
• Goal setting
determination of how best to assist the person in attaining the established goals
• Intervention
judging the effectiveness of the nursing intervention in relation to the behavior after it was performed in comparison with the goal established
• Evaluation
