Nursing care process for a preschool with pneumonia based on the Callista Roy adapta-tion model: a care experience from the academy

Abstract

The Nursing Care Process is a necessary and useful methodological tool in the practice of care and is a fundamental part of the operative task, including the student's training process in pre-professional practice. However, throughout history, Nursing as a discipline has carried out a work process aligned with the biomedical model of care, which prevents providing holistic care to the patient, including his family.

Objective: Apply the Nursing Care Process to a preschool with pneumonia, based on the Callista Roy Adaptation Model.

Material and method: Nursing care experience, in which the Roy adaptation model was applied to a child with complicated pneumonia for the assessment stage (modes of adaptation and coping process). Once the stimuli were identified, care was planned using the standardized language tools: NANDA, NOC and NIC, evaluating the results through nursing indicators. Results: Nursing interventions applied, facilitated the coping process of the child and his family to their health-disease condition, as it facilitated the identification of modes of adaptation committed beyond the physiological part and the patient, taking into account the caregiver as an indispensable part of the child´s recovery process.

Conclusions: Callista Roy's adaptation model facilitates the application of a differentiating nursing care, in which it transcends the physical and the individual to all spheres of the human being. It is considered that this experience can contribute to the strengthening and improvement of the care provided by the nursing staff in the pediatric services.