The Roy Adaptation Model has provided a framework for nursing practice, education, and research for more than 20 years. This article focuses on the model's contribution to nursing practice. Adaptation, the goal of the model, serves as an effective guide for planning care for the client with quadriplegia. A case study is used to show the effectiveness of using the nursing process within the guidelines of the Roy Adaptation Model to promote adaptation in a client with quadriplegia who is coping with living in a long‐term care facilit