Adaptation Model by Callista Roy

ADAPTATION MODEL

Sister Callista Roy

Grand theory

Knowing the Theorist

• Born on October 14, 1939, LA, California

• At 14 she began working at a large general hospital, first as a pantry girl, then as a maid, and finally as a nurse's aid.

• After a soul-searching process of discernment, she decided to enter the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet, of which she has been a member for more than 40 years.

• Her college education began in a liberal arts program, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts with a major in nursing at Mount St. Mary's College, in Los Angeles.

• She was best known for developing and continually updating the Roy Adaptation Model as a framework for theory, practice, and research in nursing.

Roy Adaptation Model (RAM)

• 1970: 1st presented in the literature in an article published in Nursing Outlook, entitled, “Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework for Nursing.”

• Greatly influences the nursing community and has inspired nursing scholars to publish books related to the model and it has been put into action in various healthcare settings and applied to various populations.

Key concepts

System: set of parts connected to function as a whole for some purpose and that does so virtue of the interdependence of its parts

: it has inputs, outputs and control feedback processes.

Adaptation level: represents the condition of the life processes.

It is a constantly changing point made up of focal, contextual, and residual stimuli, which represent the person’s own standard of the range of stimuli to which one can respond with ordinary adaptive responses.

Types of Stimuli

A. Focal: those most immediately confronting the person, it attracts the most attention

B. Contextual: all other stimuli that strengthens the effect of the focal stimulus

C. Residual: those stimuli that can affect the focal stimulus but the effects are unclear.

• The stimuli works together and influence the adaptation level...