ROY ADAPTION MODEL

Critique of the Roy Adaption Model

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Origin of the Model1

Analysis of the theory2

Barbara Barnum Model3

Critical Analysis of the Roy Adaption Model using Barbara Barnum Theory3

Logic and Lucidity4

Intent and Reliability4

Value of the theory5

Usefulness on nursing practice5

Delineation of nursing from other medical fields6

Value and potential utility in the ICU6

Conclusions7

References8

Critique of the Roy Adaption Model

Introduction

Sister Callisra Roy established the Adaption Model of Nursing in 1976, and comprises of the four domain concepts of, Nursing, the individual, the environment, and health, involving a nursing process of six steps. According to Roy (1991), the person can represent a person, or a group of persons. The model views the individual as a biopsychosocial entity who is constantly interacting with a dynamic environment, and uses coping abilities to deal with stressors as an open and adaptive system (Chalmers, H. 1984).

The perception of the environment is any condition, influence or circumstance that is around the person and affects their progress and conduct. The description Roy gives of stressors is more of stimuli, using the term residual stimuli for those stressors that influence a person in a vague way. According to Roy`s writings, illness and health are on a continuum with various states and possibilities. Becoming and staying an integrated and whole person is the process of health. Her goal is the adaption of the four modes, which would contribute to the individual health, quality of life, and their dying with dignity.

Origin of the Model

The Roy Adaption Model for Nursing saw it is starting 1964, when Sr. Callista Roy enrolled in the masters program in pediatric nursing at the University of California in Los Angeles. The 17 years of work at Mount St. Mary College in LA with their faculty can be considered as the second phase if the models development. It was adapted as the framework for nursing curriculum in 1970. This was the time when the four adaptive modes were included as the process through which adaption occurs, therefore, as the basis of nursing assessment.

It was Marie Driever who contributed for the self concept, Brooke Randell contributed to the role of function, and Joyce Van and Mary Tedrow contributed for interdependence. It was Marsha Sato who helped identify bother the common and main stimuli affecting the adaptive modes, while Joan Cho created clinical tools for their assessment, and widely acknowledged for the contribution to the theory (Roy, C. 1980).

In the late 1990, she planned to design her theory for the 21st century. According to her philosophical stance, nurses perceive a person as a Co- extensive with their social and physical environment. She has termed the word cosmic unity when describing the patterns and relations of a person, as same as of the earth, and that a person through feeling abilities, rooted in consciousness and meaning, responsible for deriving, supporting, and transforming the universe.

Analysis of the theory

The theory seems very practical and innovative as it places emphasis on the patient's adaption while incorporating a number of ...