Using Roy's model in a special hospital

Using a nursing model to help systematise the care of a young patient in a special hospital resulted in tangible improvements in his behaviour, yet Francesca Miller found that it raised questions about the function and value of nursing for this client group. Her study reveals how she had to cope with her own negative feelings about the nature of her patient's offences and how the use of basic counselling skills, and encouraging the patient to take responsibility for his own care, achieved notable developments in his social skills. But despite this, she is left to ponder, 'at what cost?'