Application of katharine kolkata comfort theory to nursing. Comfort is a term that has a significant historical and contemporary. Case study approach was used in applying katharine kolcaba theory of comfort on post operative child application. 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. The theoretical work presented here utilizes an intraactional perspective to develop a theory of comfort as a positive outcome of nursing case. Nursing theorydirected healthcare semantic scholar. In her theory she describes comfort in three different forms. The application of comfort theory to daily patient and family care, discharge planning, and followup in various settings. Usefulness of the comfort theory in the clinical nursing care. Pdf application of katharine kolcaba comfort theory in. This theory has the potential to place comfort in the forefront of healthcare.
A theory of holistic comfort for nursing kolcaba 1994. Kolcaba s theory of comfort was first developed in the 1990s. Katherine kolcaba theory of comfort was applied in clinical setting to the care a young surgical patient successfully. Ten auditors were interviewed on how they experience the different senses of the comfort theory to become comfortable. The paper concludes with a discussion about the theory of comfort as a significant one for the discipline of nursing. According to the kolcaba comfort theory, nursing care addresses the needs for. Modifying kolcaba s comfort theory as an institutionwide approach. An analysis of the concept of comfort kolcaba 1991 journal of. Kolcaba, the founder of holistic comfort theory 2003, describes holistic comfort as.
The strength of theory is that it coversfulfilling all needs of surgical patients in holistic way. Abstract kolcabas comfort theory is one of the many theories that are clearly applicable to todays nursing practice. A practical application of katharine kolcabas comfort theory to. Katharine kolcaba, who is a phd nursing scholar, devised the comfort theory. 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. This is a reflexivetheoretical study conducted in november and december 2014, based on the usefulness criterion pro posed in the critical analysis of.
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