The adaptation model of nursing presumes that the individual patient is fully cognitive after an injury and during recovery. During this consciousness, each patient creates a unique relationship with their environment. Actual adaptation is a product of combining the cognitive mind and the environment which surrounds it. The Roy adaptation model believes that the human mind has heightened creative abilities, along with the conception of fate. This version of the adaptation method involves steps to nursing which asses the situation and recognizes clues within the immediate environment of injured patients. Once these clues are diagnosed, the goal of the nurse is to best assist the individual patient in cognitive and behavioral healing. Some of Roy's recent projects include working on intervention studies of recently injured patients. She involves the family members of injured patients to help in the recovery of their cognitive functions which were damaged.

Data gathering becomes much more broad and significant when the Roy adaptation model is applied to a patient. As nurses spend time on examining the surroundings of their patients, they can customize the best plan for recovery for each individual patient. Successful assessment of a patient's environment is a key element of applying the Roy model of adaptation. In her work, "Implementing the Roy Adaptation: From Theory to Practice," Pamela...

Roy's theories help develop successful nursing strategies by finding the smoothest adaptation to each individual's current conditions. These strategies can also be applied to "an intervention for a discrete clinical population," (Senesac 2007).
Sr. Callista Roy's innovations to the adaptation theory have helped thousands of patients' on their road to cognitive recovery. Since the adoption of her theories in the curriculum of Mount Saint Mary's Nursing Program in 1970 while she was still on staff, Roy's model of adaptation has gained great momentum in the field of nursing.

Works Cited

Boston College. "The Roy Adaptation Model." www2.bc.edu/~royaca/htm/ram.htm Found on October 4.

Boston College. "Sr. Callista Roy, PhD, RN, FAAN: Professor and Nurse Theorist." http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/theorist.html. Found on October 4, 2007.

Senesac, P. "Implementing the Roy Adaptation: From Theory to Practice." The Roy

Adaptation Model in Progress. http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/theorist/RAM/practice.html. Found on October 4, 2007