Verbalizes inability to care for children
Verbalizes inability to change bandages and handle other medical tasks
Stress verbalized over mothering role
Views family elders as agent of medical diagnosis and treatment
Overly dependent on family for psychosocial needs
Does not recognize family as a child care support
Does not depend on neighbor or community resources
Previous experience of injury at place of work
Decreased mobility, self-care and child-care ability
Past experience with pain from injury
Asian cultural attitudes toward pain and treatment
Asian cultural notions of family bonding and obligations
Encourage more reliance on neighborhood/community resources
Encourage safety inspection of workplace
Provide all services in culture-sensitive context
Conclusions Concerning Heuristic Value of Roy's Model
There have been several studies examining the heuristic value of Roy's adaptation model of nursing care. For example, in research conducted by Calvillo and Flaskerud (1993), the model was found to be moderately to highly adequate in guiding cross-cultural research and nursing care. In the nursing plan developed for the case of Mai Lynn, I also found the model to have strong cross-cultural value in that the components of Level II assessment allowed for the inclusion of her cultural values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors as part of determining her nursing care needs.
Another useful feature of Roy's model is that it allows for an understanding of the contribution of components of patients' self-concept to their experience of illness and/or injury (Ryan, 1996). The model further postulates that in s
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