title: The Roy adaptation model. Using the adaptation model in a practitioner curriculum.
abstract: We believe that nurse practitioner role mastery should occur through supplementation of former roles, beginning early and continuing throughout the entire educational process, rather than through realignment to a new role. The educational process should therefore enable the student to identify with and build upon her role as a nurse, rather than abandoning it and adapting to a new quasi-role. If role mastery is to occur by gradual assimilation rather than by abrupt change, a nursing model is needed on which both preparation for and practice in the role can be based. The adaptation model provides the necessary framework to give direction to practitioner education; offers a relevant way of viewing the older adult in relation to his environment; and delineates guidelines for nurse practitioner action.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005431:Florida; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D012649:Self Concept