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