ANALYSIS OF THE ROY ADAPTATION MODEL OF NURSING
Delineation and Analysis of The Theory
Roy's Adaptation Model (see: Roy & Andrews, 1999) for nursing is based on the notion that a human being can successfully adapt to environmental requirements. There are five major concepts of nursing explicated in her model: the person, the goal of nursing, nursing activities, health, and the environment. These concepts are interrelated to the concept of adaptation. The person is viewed as having four different modes of adaptation: physiologic, self-concept, role function, and interdependence modes. Roy's model is concerned with the internal and external environmental stimuli affecting the development and behavior of the person. The level of adaptation of the person is assessed and ways to remove the stimuli, to enhance, or to maintain adaptation are explored by the person and the nurse.
The model contains the following scientific assumptions:
1. Systems of matter and energy progress to higher levels of complex self-organization,
2. Consciousness and meaning are constitutive of person and environment integration,
3. Awareness of self and environment is rooted in thinking and feeling,
4. Humans by their decisions are accountable for the integration of creative processes,
5. Thinking and feeling mediate human action,
6. System relationships include acceptance, protection, and fostering of interdependence,
7. Persons and the earth have common patterns and integral relationships,
8. Persons and environment transformations are crated in human consciousness, and
9. Integration of human and environment meanings results in adaptation.
In addition to the foregoing, the model also has a number of philosophical assumptions including the assumptions that people have mutual relationships with the world and with God, that human meaning is rooted in an omega point convergence of the universe, that God is intimately ...