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Nursing Faculty Handbook

Nursing Conceptual Framework

The Nursing curriculum is based on a conceptual framework that reflects the college's philosophy (as is identifiable in the objectives of the program of nursing education and the mission statement).

Our conceptual framework is based on Roy's Adaptation Model modes - These four modes are physiological, self-concept, role function and interdependence 
 

  1. The person as a biopsychosocial being in constant interaction with a changing environment.   
  2. The person is an open, adaptive system who uses coping skills to deal with stressors.
  3. The environments  all conditions, circumstances and influences that surround and affect the development and behavior of the person. 
  4. Health and illness are on a continuum with many different states or degrees possible. Health is the process of being and becoming an integrated and whole person.

Roy's goal for nursing is  the promotion of adaptation in each of the four modes, thereby contributing to the person s health, quality of life and dying with dignity.