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Sister Calista Roy - Adaptation Model

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  • Revised on: 2020-09-16

Five Interrelated Essential Elements

  1. Patiency- The person receiving care
  2. Goal of nursing- Adapting to change
  3. Health-Being and becoming a whole person
  4. Environment
  5. Direction of nursing activities- Facilitating adaptation
  • The person is an open adaptive system with input (stimuli), who adapts by processes or control mechanisms (throughput)
  • The output can be either adaptive responses or ineffective responses