Roy Adaptation Model In Nursing

The period of transition from senior-level student to professional nurse is stressful. The senior-level students challenge stress that encompasses a range of academic, clinical, and emotional reasons (Jameson, 2013). According to Jameson (2013), Roy defined the stress as physical or psychological stimuli that disturb the adaptive state and provoke a coping response. Therefore, Roy Adaptation Model will be used as a conceptual model that guides the nurse faculties and leaders to increase retention of new graduate nurses, improve students’ competency communication, and then reach the patients’ quality and safety. There are several reasons voiced by Ashton (2012) why Roy Adaptation Model is useful and quite appropriate for a study about new graduate nurses. First Ashton’s reason was that Roy defined the person as one or unified adaptive system. Her second reason was that Roy’s model is aligned with understanding of physical, emotional, cognitive, and social domains of human beings. …show more content…
Thus, the faculty nurse leaders or educators must consider the factors that may impact the students’ coping abilities and health. Those factors can include the environmental stimuli such as using of technologies and hospital characteristics as well as students’ knowledge of the Psychological effect of change or transition from academia into practice. Berkow, Virkstis, Stewart, & Conway (2008) found the gap between preparation of new graduate nurses and practice. Those new graduate nurses feel they are not prepared to take on the role of professional nurse and nurse managers agreed (Berkow, Virkstis, Stewart, & Conway,