Its application to integrate comfort in patient care was excellent and result oriented. According to the model, comfort is an immediate desirable outcome of nursing care. According to the kolcaba comfort theory, nursing care addresses the needs for. Ten auditors were interviewed on how they experience the different senses of the comfort theory to become comfortable. Nursing theorydirected healthcare semantic scholar. Kolcaba s theory of comfort was first developed in the 1990s. In her theory she describes comfort in three different forms.
Katherine kolcaba theory of comfort was applied in clinical setting to the care a young surgical patient successfully. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how comfort theory has been applied throughout 1 veterans administration system to fulfill the goal of providing quality veterancentric care. A theory of holistic comfort for nursing kolcaba 1994. Nursing approaches to care as based on katharine kolcabas 2003 middle range nursing theory of comfort. It is a middlerange theory for health practice, education, and research. A model of human press is the framework within which comfort is related to a interventions that enhance the state of comfort and b desirable subsequent outcomes of nursing care. Prior to the publication of this article, i usually referred to comfort theory as a nursing theory. Pdf application of katharine kolcaba comfort theory in. The application of comfort theory to daily patient and family care, discharge planning, and followup in various settings. Comfort is a term that has a significant historical and contemporary. Katharine kolcaba, who is a phd nursing scholar, devised the comfort theory. There are three basic assumptions of the theory of comfort. Case study approach was used in applying katharine kolcaba theory of comfort on post operative child application. The strength of theory is that it coversfulfilling all needs of surgical patients in holistic way.
An analysis of the concept of comfort kolcaba 1991 journal of. Abstract kolcabas comfort theory is one of the many theories that are clearly applicable to todays nursing practice. Application of katharine kolkata comfort theory to nursing. Katharine kolcaba comfort theory frame work used to assess patient condition, plan and deliver integrative comfort care interventions the steps followed for data collection planning and implementing effective care were based on the presuppositions of the katharine kolcaba theory. Usefulness of the comfort theory in the clinical nursing care. This is a reflexivetheoretical study conducted in november and december 2014, based on the usefulness criterion pro posed in the critical analysis of. Modifying kolcaba s comfort theory as an institutionwide approach. The theoretical work presented here utilizes an intraactional perspective to develop a theory of comfort as a positive outcome of nursing case. A practical application of katharine kolcabas comfort theory to. Kolcaba holistic approach to comfort is defined as the immediate experience of being strengthened through having the needs for relief, ease, and transcended met in four contexts of experience kolcaba,1994.
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