Examples Of Nursing Metaparadigm

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Nursing metaparadigm for the Roy adaptation nursing model can be defined in in terms of adaption which is the environment, person, health, and nursing. According to Roy (1997) and Roy and Andrews (1999) adaptation is the process and outcome whereby thinking and feeling persons use conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration. A person can is an adaptive system whereby the individual is described as a whole composed of parts that function as a unity for some purpose. In other words, the person is the main focus of nursing, and a recipient of nursing care, a living complex. Health is a state and process of becoming whole and integrated in a way that reflects person and environment mutuality. The goal of nursing