Roy's adaptation model of nursing
Roy's conceptual model or adaptation model is a model based on a person's ability to adapt to changed living conditions.
Callista Roy[edit | edit source]
(*14.10. 1939', Los Angeles, USA)
Callista Roy is an American nun, nurse, professor and author of the adaptation model of nursing. She is a member of the American Academy of Sciences, a person of America, a member of NANDA and the world organization of women.
The Adaptation Model of Nursing[edit | edit source]
In order to preserve one's own integrity and homeostasis, a person must constantly respond to changes in the organism or environment through innate and acquired mechanisms.
According to Roy, the goal of nursing is to help a person strengthen his health by supporting adaptation to both external and internal stimuli.
Types of stimuli influencing the adaptation response[edit | edit source]
- Incentives main
- local, focal
- the individual here reacts immediately
- e.g. birth, fracture
- Situational, contextual stimuli
- result from the present time and environment
- result from the present time and environment
- Personality, residual incentives
- include opinions, character traits or attitudes
- include opinions, character traits or attitudes
When the stimuli are combined, a positive or negative adaptive reaction is induced, which leads to a certain behavior and then to adaptation or maladaptation.
The role of the nurse in the adaptation model[edit | edit source]
When applying the adaptation model, the nurse focuses on a total of 4 areas:
- Physiological needs - e.g. activity, nutrition, rest, etc.
- Self-concept - a set of characteristics that a person attributes to himself.
- Social role - primary (age, gender) and secondary (related to life period - parent, doctor, patient, etc.)
- Interdependence - balance between agreement or disagreement, can be positive or negative
Adaptation Syndrome[edit | edit source]
Adaptation takes place according to a certain algorithm - i.e. adaptation syndrome. It takes place in different phases and results in either "active adaptation" or "maladaptation".
Phase:
- Alarm reaction - i.e. helplessness or the search for certainty and safety
- Active adaptation phase - i.e. stabilization, balance and calming down
- Exhaustion phase - i.e. exhaustion of the body's reserves and subsequent deterioration of health
Use in practice[edit | edit source]
Roy uses a total of 6 stages nursing process, instead of the original 5.
Phase:
- Assessment of patient behavior
- Assessment of acting stimuli
- Establishing a nursing diagnosis
- Goal Setting
- Nursing Interventions
- Evaluation
The starting point of the model according to Roy is stress. The result of adaptation is effective' and ineffective behavior. Nursing intervenes only in ineffective behavior.
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References[edit | edit source]
- ENDLICHEROVÁ, Jana. Ošetřovatelské modely [lecture for subject Dovednosti v porodní asistenci 1, specialization Porodní asistence, 1. lékařská fakulta Univerzita Karlova]. Praha. 2019.
Resources[edit | edit source]
- DOLANOVÁ, Dana. Ošetřovatelský model dle Royové a jeho využití v praxi (Adaptační model) [online]. Masarykova univerzita, ©2010. The last revision 2010, [cit. 2019-01-03]. <https://is.muni.cz/el/1411/jaro2010/BDOS0222/um/Osetrovatelsky_model_dle_Royove_a_jeho_vyuziti_v.pdf>.