The Adaptation Model Of Nursing

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Nursing theories have guided and improved nursing care practices for over 100 years. There are many different nursing theories and each theory is composed of its own unique ideas and characteristics. Nursing theories are developed by nurses and serve as models to deliver quality nursing care to patients. The nursing theories of Sister Callista Roy and Madeleine Leininger will be the focus of study in this essay. Sister Callista Roy’s theory is called the Adaptation Model of Nursing. Roy’s Adaptation Model of Nursing is based on three specific questions. Those questions are: Who is the focus of nursing care? What is the target of nursing care? And when is nursing care indicated? (Petiprin, 2015). In my own words, Roy’s Adaptation Model is best …show more content…

The four adaptation modes used to help patients adapt are: physiologic needs, self-concept, role function, and interdependence. By focusing on helping patients cope and adapt to stimuli in each of these modes, nurses are able to help patients successfully adapt to situations and improve their health or help them to be able to die with dignity (Petiprin, 2015). A person in Roy’s Adaptation Model is described as a biopsychosocial being who is constantly interacting with a changing environment. According to this model, people interact with their environment as a way to achieve equilibrium or balance in their daily lives (Zerwekh & Garneau, 2012). Health, according to Roy’s Adaptation Model, is the process of successfully coping with stressors in life. Illness is described as unsuccessful coping with stressors in life. Health and illness are expected and normal dimensions of a person’s life and are represented by a health-illness continuum (Petiprin, 2015). The environment, as described by Roy’s Adaptation Model, is anything that influences the development of a person. The environment consists of three components: focal, contextual, and residual stimuli. All conditions and circumstances that influence and affect the development of a person are considered to be part of that person’s environment (Petiprin,

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