Discuss Kolcaba - Comfort theory
Ans) First developed in the 1990s by Katharine Kolcaba.
Comfort Theory is middle range theory for health practice, education, and research.
Kolcaba's theory has the potential to place comfort once again in the forefront of healthcare.
described comfort as existing in 3 forms: relief, ease, and transcendence. Also, Kolcaba described 4 contexts in which patient comfort can occur: physical, psychospiritual, environmental, and sociocultural.
Kolcaba described comfort as existing in 3 forms: relief, ease, and transcendence.
If specific comfort needs of a patient are met, for example, the relief of postoperative pain by administering prescribed analgesia, the individual experiences comfort in the relief sense.
If the patient is in a comfortable state of contentment, the person experiences comfort in the ease sense, for example, how one might feel after having issues that are causing anxiety addressed.
Lastly, transcendence is described as the state of comfort in which patients are able to rise above their challenges.
Health Care Needs are those identified by the patient/family in a particular practice setting.
Intervening Variables are those factors that are not likely to change and over which providers have little control (such as prognosis, financial situation, extent of social support, etc).
Comfort is an immediate desirable outcome of nursing care, according to Comfort Theory
Health Seeking Behavior (HSBs):
Institutional Integrity - the values, financial stability, and wholeness of health care organizations at local, regional, state, and national levels.
Best Policies are protocols and procedures developed by an institution for overall use after collecting evidence.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY
Kolcaba conducted a concept analysis of comfort that examined literature from several disciplines including nursing, medicine, psychology, psychiatry, ergonomics, and English
First, three types of comfort (relief, ease, transcendence) and
four contexts of holistic human experience in differing aspects of
therapeutic contexts were introduced.
A taxonomic structure was developed to guide for assessment,
measurement, and evaluation of patient comfort.
Comfort as a product of holistic nursing art.
A broader theory for comfort was introduced.
The theory has undergone refinement and tested for its applicability.
DESCRIPTION OF THE THEORY:
Nursing
Nursing is described as the process of assessing the patient's comfort needs, developing and implementing appropriate nursing interventions, and evaluating patient comfort following nursing interventions.
Intentional assessment of comfort needs, the design of comfort measures to address those needs, and the reassessment of comfort levels after implementation.
Assessment may be either objective, such as in the observation of wound healing, or subjective, such as by asking if the patient is comfortable.
Health
Health is considered to be optimal functioning, as defined by the patient, group, family or community
Person/Patient
Patients can be considered as individuals, families, institutions, or communities in need of health care.
Environment
Any aspect of the patient, family, or institutional surroundings that can be manipulated by a nurse(s), or loved one(s) to enhance comfort.
- Holistic comfort is defined as the immediate experience of being
strengthened through having the needs for relief, ease, and
transcendence met in four contexts of experience (physical,
psychospiritual, social, and environment)
- The theoretical structure of Kolcaba's comfort theory has real potential to direct the work and thinking of all healthcare providers within one institution.
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