Sister Callista Roy

Question 1

What did Sister Callista Roy developed?

Answer 1

Adaptation Model of Nursing

Question 2

(True or False) The Adaptation Model states that health is an inevitable dimension of a person’s life and is represented by a health-illness continuum.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to Sister Callista Roy, the environment has three components. What are these?

Answer 3

Focal
Contextual
Residual

Question 4

It is internal or external and immediately confronts the person

Answer 4

Focal

Question 5

all stimuli present in the situation that all contribute to the effect of the focal stimulus

Answer 5

Contextual

Question 5

Whose effects in the current situation
are unclear.

Answer 5

Residual

Question 6

She is considered among nursing’s great living
thinkers

Answer 6

Sister Callista Roy

Question 7

What are the Four Adaptive Modes of Roy’s Adaptation Model?

Answer 7

physiologic needs
self-concept
role function
interdependence.

Question 8

It is the “process and outcome whereby thinking and feeling persons as individuals or in groups use conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration.”

Answer 8

Adaptation

Question 9

(True or False) In the adaptation model, humans are holistic, adaptive systems.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What is the goal of nursing in the adaptation model?

Answer 10

to promote modes of adaptation that support overall health.

Question 11

What are the levels of adaptation?

Answer 11

Integrated Process
Compensatory Process
Compromised Process

Question 12

A level of adaptation that are usually stable processes (e.g., breathing,
spiritual realization, successful relationship)

Answer 12

Integrated Process

Question 13

A level of adaptation in which the cognator and regulator are challenged by the needs of the
environment, but are working to meet the needs (e.g., grief, starting with a new job, compensatory breathing).

Answer 13

Compensatory Process

Question 14

A level of adaptation in which the modes and subsystems are not adequately meeting the
environmental challenge (e.g., hypoxia, unresolved loss, abusive relationships)

Answer 14

Compromised Process

Question 15

(True or False) Based on Roy, humans are holistic beings that are in constant interaction with
their environment.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

It is defined as conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the development and behavior of humans as an adaptive system

Answer 16

Environment

Question 17

(True or False) Stimuli can only be positive.

Answer 17

False.
These stimuli can be positive or negative.

Question 18

It is defined as the state where humans can continually adapt to stimuli.

Answer 18

Health

If a human can continue to adapt holistically, they will be able to maintain health to reach completeness and unity within themselves. If they cannot adapt accordingly, the integrity of the person can be affected negatively.

Question 19

In Adaptation Model, who are the facilitators of adaptation?

Answer 19

Nurses.

Nurses eliminate ineffective coping mechanisms and eventually lead to better
outcomes.

Question 20

“Human systems have thinking and feeling capacities, rooted in consciousness and meaning, by which they adjust effectively to changes in
the environment and, in turn, affect the environment.”

Answer 20

Person

Question 21

“The conditions, circumstances and influences surrounding and affecting the development and behavior of persons or groups, with particular consideration of the mutuality of person and health resources that includes focal, contextual
and residual stimuli.”

Answer 21

Environment

Question 22

“Health is not freedom from the inevitability of death, disease, unhappiness, and stress, but the ability to cope with them in a competent way.”

Answer 22

Health

Question 23

“ [The goal of nursing is] the promotion of adaptation for individuals and groups in each of the four adaptive modes, thus contributing to health,
quality of life, and dying with dignity.”

Answer 23

Nursing