ADAPTION MODEL OF NURSING
By: Kimberly Perez
Biography of Sister Calliste Roy
Sister Calliste Roy was born in Los Angeles, California on October 14th, 1939. She studied nursing at the Mount Saint Mary's College and got her BSN on 1963. After that Sister Calliste worked as a pediatric staff nurse. She seemed to really enjoy it and three years later she received a master's in pediatric nursing. With all the observations and nursing experience she was able to gain, she developed the adaption model that was used as the philosophical foundation model used at Mount Saint Mary’s. Sister Calliste also worked as a professor at the university of Portland in 1983 and as a chair person at Mount Saint Mary's.
Theory that she developed
She was known for her theory development of the adaption model of nursing and she dedicated her life to the research and study of it. The model that she created helps you prove a better health plan for the patient. For example, if a patient has a stroke on the right side you need to help them understand that this part might not work the same as before, but there could be a possibility that they could gain it back by working with you with exercise and other types of treatment.
Application to Nurse Aids
This model encourages and allows the nursing assistant to provide better healthcare to their patients. The adaption model of nursing allows the nurse aids to be able to make the patient feel better each and everyday. This theory would help a nursing assistant do so much better on their task because it would allow them to interact better with your patients and be able to understand the different stages and consequences there is for everything. It allows the nurse aid to feel empathy for them and provide them a better plan of recuperation to the best of their abilities. Sister Calliste Roy said that the challenge of a nurse is to move the patient from survival to transformation. In other words she is trying to say that sometimes you can't make the patient go back to their normal ability, but you can get them stabilize and just keep doing activities, and using other methods that could be help them get them back to their normal abilities or close to it.