Sister Callista Roy

• Sister Callista Roy - a nursing theorist, professor, and author
• Adaptation Model Theory - states that individuals are constantly interacting with and adapting to their environment
• Adaptation - the process by which people adjust to changes and maintain balance
• Humans are adaptive system
• Health is a state of being and becoming
• People adapt in four ways
• Person - have thinking and feeling capacities, by which they adjust effectively to changes in the environment
• Environment - the conditions and influences affecting people's development and behavior
• Health - not freedom from the inevitability of death, disease, etc.
• Health - the ability to cope with uncertainties in a competent way
• Nursing - the promotion of adaption for individuals and groups, that contributes to the quality of health
• Adaptation - the process and outcome whereby the individuals use conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration
• Regulator - a person's physiological coping mechanism
• Regulator - body attempts to adapt via regulation of our bodily processes
• Cognator - a person's mental coping mechanism
• Cognator - the use of his brain to cope via self-concept, and role function adaptive modes
• Internal Process: Regulator Subsystem, Cognator Subsystem
• Integrated Level - when individual's adaptive responses are effective and functioning optimally
• Compensatory Level - the adaptive responses are not entirely effective but are still managing to cope with the demands
• Compromised Level - when the adaptive responses are inadequate and fail to meet the demands of the environment
• Levels of Adaptation: Integrated, Compensatory, Compromised
• Physical Mode - the mode that focuses on the body's physical and biological processes
• Physical Mode - how the body responds to internal and external environmental stimuli
• Self-Concept Group Identity Mode - this mode pertains to an individual's self-identity and self-esteem
• Role Function Mode - the mode that focuses on the primary, secondary, and tertiary roles that a person occupies in the society
• Interdependence - the mode that focuses on attaining relational integrity through the giving and receiving love, respect and value
• Assessment of Behavior - data gathering about the behavior of a person as an adaptive system
• Assessment of Stimuli - analyzes the subjective and objective behaviors and look more deeply for possible cause
• Focal Stimuli - the immediate issue
• Contextual Stimuli - surrounding factors
• Residual Stimuli - underlying or past influences
• Nursing Diagnosis - formulation of statements that interpret data about the adaption on statues of a person
• Goal Setting - establishment of clear statements of the behavioral outcomes for nursing care which is realistic and attainable
• Intervention - develop and implement nursing interventions to help the adapt more effectively to the stimuli
• Evaluation - assess the outcomes of the interventions
• Individuals are adaptive system
• Person - a biopsychological being who is in constant interaction
• Environment - the surroundings and stimuli that affect the person's development and behavior
• Health - a person strives to maintain balance and adapt to environmental changes
• Nursing - the profession that helps individuals and groups promote adaptation