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Patient Care and the Adaptation Model of Callista Roy

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Sr. Callista Roy has provided nursing with a model that is quite useful in appropriate settings. It does not focus so much on the technological aspect of medicine  as it does on the emotional aspects of it. Roys Adaptation Model places the patient at the center of attention and addresses methods by which nurses can most effectively  care for, instruct, educate, comfort and offer explanations to their patients. Sr. Roy is credited with bringing new enlightenment to nursing, and her model of nursing is highly valued.  A quality of nursing theory is that no one theory is applicable to all situations at all times. As example, Dorothy Orems  self care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters into acute or intensive care,  however. The aftereffects and changes that the patient may need to make following these conditions certainly qualify (Bryant, Corbett and Kutner, 2002), but self care is not an issue  on the day that a middle-aged man is having an endoscopy, an elderly woman comes in for a "bladder tack" or a young mother arrives for a tubal ligation.  All care is the responsibility of the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do everything s/he is told  to do, and it is the responsibility of the nurse to provide all care at that time. Roys Adaptation Model Roys adaptation model  describes the progress through which patients move in adapting to changing physical conditions (The Roy Adaptation Model). This too is quite useful with the elderly, whose bodies change more