Katharine Kolcaba Theory of Comfort (Kimberly Cromwell & Cindy-Ann Bautista) by https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf en-us 2020-06-16 14:45:35 UTC 2025-12-06 10:29:44 UTC hello@padlet.com Introduction kimberlyc22 https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/629290881 Katharine Kolcaba, (1944-Present), PhD, RN, CNS
  • Specialized in Gerontology, End of Life and Long-Term Care Interventions, Comfort Studies, Instrument Development, Nursing Theory, Nursing Research.
  • Currently an associate professor of nursing at the University of Akron College of Nursing.
  • Published Comfort Theory and Practice: a Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research in 2003.
]]> 2020-06-16 17:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/629290881 Analyzation kimberlyc22 https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/629292772 Comfort care entails at least 3 types of comfort measures: 
  • Technical comfort measures: interventions designed to maintain homeostasis and manage pain.
  • Coaching: Designed to relieve anxiety, provide reassurance and information, instill hope, listen and help plan realistically for recovery, integration, or death in a culturally sensitive way.
  • Comfort food for the soul: Comfort measure's that are unexpected but very welcomed because they encompass old-fashioned and basic nursing care. 

]]> 2020-06-16 17:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/629292772 Theory Evaluation kimberlyc22 https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/629293176 In today's nursing, Comfort Theory can be applied to:
  • Patients of all ages and cultures.
  • Patients' family and/or caretakers.
  • A wide variety of nursing settings.
  • Can be applied to palliative care, peri-anesthetic care, oncological care, cardiac care, and maternity.

Evidence of empirical testing:  
  • Focus on dementia care most utilized in providing a broader approach in the delivery of care of dying patients (hospice care).
  • Conceptually, as health is more than the absence of disease, comfort or the lack of it may be more than the absence of discomfort or pain. Comfort relates to the broader concept of quality of life the main treatment goal for both palliative and dementia care approaches.
  • Discomfort Scale–Dementia Alzheimer Type.

Research support and Nursing Research
  • Kolcaba's theory has been tested empirically and has guided research which tested the effectiveness of comfort interventions. 
  • Comfort Theory has also been adopted as a guiding model for services such as Acute Care for Elders and hospice nursing.

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Apóstolo, J. L. A., & Kolcaba, K. (2009). The effects of guided imagery on comfort, depression, anxiety, and stress of psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 23(6), 403-411.
 
Kolcaba, K. (2003). Comfort Theory and Practice. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Konietzny, C., & Anderson, B. (2017). Comfort Conversations in Complex Continuing Care: Assessing Patients’ and Families’ Palliative Care Needs. Perspectives: The Journal of the Gerontological Nursing Association, 39(4), 14–22.

Lima JVF, Guedes MVC, Silva LF, Freitas MC, Fialho AVM. Usefulness of the comfort theory in the clinical nursing care of new mothers: critical analysis. Rev Gaúcha Enferm. 2016 Dec;37(4):e65022. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1983- 1447.2016.04.65022.

Nursing Theories. (2011). Comfort Theory. Retrieved from Current Nursing: http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/comfort_theory_Kathy_Kolcaba.html
 
Puchi, Carolina BN; Paravic-Klijn, Tatiana PhD; Salazar, Alide PhD The Comfort Theory as a Theoretical Framework Applied to a Clinical Case of Hospital at Home, Holistic Nursing Practice: September/October 2018 - Volume 32 - Issue 5 - p 228-239 doi: 10.1097/HNP.0000000000000275

Vendlinski, S., & Kolcaba, K. Y. (1997). Comfort care: A framework for hospice nursing. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 14(6), 271-276
 



 



 

]]> 2020-06-16 17:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/629293560 Theory Description kimberlyc22 https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/629294290 Scope of Theory: Middle Range.
Purpose of Theory:  Development of a taxonomic structure to guide assessment, measurement, and evaluation of patient comfort.
  •  Four Major Theoretical Concepts
  • Six Major Propositions

]]> 2020-06-16 17:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/629294290 Theory Origin cindyannb https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/648857851
  • Personal experience with death
  • Clinical experience with dementia patients.
  • Work from other theorists inspired her conceptualization of her comfort theory (Relief, Ease, Transcendence).
  • Framework for the basis of her theory was derived from Henry Murray's 1938 book "Explorations in Personality".
    • ]]>     2020-07-07 03:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/648857851     cindyannb https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/665335854 2020-07-29 21:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/665335854 Comfort Care Theory Definitions cindyannb https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/665340511 2020-07-29 21:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/665340511 Application of Theory cindyannb https://padlet.com/kimberlyc22/vbqfjwbxxz5hckyf/wish/665358953 Comfort of new mothers (Lima, Guedes, Silva, Freitas, & Fialho, 2016)
    • Manipulation of the mother's environment during the transitional period (labor) by eliminating pain factors by promoting relaxation measures
    • Interventions related to pain control, sleep deprivation, and promoting physical comfort through control of the environment

    Comfort of hospital at home patients (Puchi, Paravic-Klijn & Salazar, 2018)
    • Access to resources needed to provide holistic care
    • Suitable and stable home environment
    • Adequate support system at home
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