Roy's Nursing Model & Care of Alzheimer's Patient

Sister Calista Roy described a model for nursing practice based on the concept of adaptation. The five major concepts of nursing elaborated in the model, according to Stein (2003), are: the person, the goal of nursing, nursing activities, health and the environment. Each concept is interrelated to the larger construct of adaptation, which views the persona as having available four specific adaptation modes: physiologic, self-concept, role function, and interdependence modes (Stein, 2003). This brief report will examine this nursing model and apply it to care of the patient with AlzheimerÆs Disease, a progressive, debilitating and chronic condition that imposes significant care burdens on family members and healthcare professionals while simultaneously limiting the capacity of the affected patient to cope with activities of daily living (ADL) (Newman, 1997).

The Roy model is, says Stein (2003), concerned with the internal and ex

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