Nursing Theories 2
Nursing Theories 2
Nursing Theories 2
Sr.Callista Roy
THEORY DESCRIPTION
The central questions of Roys theory are:
Who is the focus of nursing care? What is the target of nursing care? When is nursing care indicated?
Concepts-Adaptation
Responding positively to environmental changes. The process and outcome of individuals and groups who use conscious awareness, self reflection and choice to create human and environmental integration
Concepts-Person
Bio-psycho-social being in constant interaction with a changing environment Uses innate and acquired mechanisms to adapt An adaptive system described as a whole comprised of parts Functions as a unity for some purpose
Includes people as individuals or in groups-families, organizations, communities, and society as
a whole.
Concepts-Environment
Focal - internal or external and immediately confronting the person Contextual- all stimuli present in the situation that contribute to effect of focal stimulus Residual-a factor whose effects in the current situation are unclear
Concepts-Health
Inevitable dimension of person's life Represented by a health-illness continuum A state and a process of being and becoming integrated and whole
Concepts-Nursing
To promote adaptation for individuals and groups in the four adaptive modes, thus contributing to health, quality of life, and dying with dignity by assessing behaviors and factors that influence adaptive abilities and by intervening to enhance environmental interactions
Concepts-Subsystems
Cognator subsystem A major coping process involving 4 cognitive-emotive channels(perceptual and information processing, learning, judgment, and emotion) Regulator subsystem a basic type of adaptive process that responds automatically through neural, chemical, and endocrine coping channels
Includes relating persons, partners, families, organizations, communities, nations, and society as a whole
Adaptation Level
A zone within which stimulation will lead to a positive or adaptive response Three levels 1. Integrated 2. Compensatory 3. Compromised
Compensatory Processes
Adaptation level where the cognator and regulator are activated by a challenge to the life processes
Role transition, growth in a new role
Compromised Processes
Adaptation level resulting from inadequate integrated and compensatory life processes
Hypoxia
Unresolved Loss
* Lower order needs (psychophysical needs) o The need for activity-inactivity o The need for sexuality
* Higher order needs (psychosocial needs) o The need for achievement o The need for affiliation o Higher order need (intrapersonalinterpersonal need) o The need for self-actualization
Health
A high level of overall physical, mental and social functioning A general adaptive-maintenance level of daily functioning The absence of illness (or the presence of efforts that leads its absence)
Environment/society
* Caring (and nursing) has existed in every society. * A caring attitude is not transmitted from generation to generation. * It is transmitted by the culture of the profession as a unique way of coping with its environment.
Nursing
* Nursing is concerned with promoting health, preventing illness, caring for the sick and restoring health.
Nursing
It focuses on health promotion and treatment of disease. She believes that holistic health care is central to the practice of caring in nursing
Nursing
She defines nursing as:
a human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, esthetic and ethical human transactions.
Novice
Beginner with no experience Taught general rules to help perform tasks Rules are: context-free, independent of specific cases, and applied universally Rule-governed behavior is limited and inflexible
Ex. Tell me what I need to do and Ill do it.
Advanced Beginner
Demonstrates acceptable performance Has gained prior experience in actual situations to recognize recurring meaningful components Principles, based on experiences, begin to be formulated to guide actions
Competent
Demonstrates acceptable performance Has gained prior experience in actual situations to recognize recurring meaningful components Principles, based on experiences, begin to be formulated to guide actions
Competent
Gains perspective from planning own actions based on conscious, abstract, and analytical thinking and helps to achieve greater efficiency and organization
typically a nurse with 2-3 years experience on the job in the same area or in similar day-to-day situations
Proficient
Perceives and understands situations as whole parts More holistic understanding improves decisionmaking Learns from experiences what to expect in certain situations and how to modify plans
Expert
No longer relies on principles, rules, or guidelines to connect situations and determine actions Much more background of experience Has intuitive grasp of clinical situations Performance is now fluid, flexible, and highlyproficient