theory of human comfort an overview
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Katharine Kolcaba developed the Theory of Comfort in the 1990s to promote optimal patient outcomes. The theory defines comfort as satisfying basic human needs arising from stressful healthcare situations. It outlines three states of comfort - relief, ease, and transcendence - and four contexts - physical, psychospiritual, social, and environmental. The theory provides direction for nursing practice and research by focusing on a measurable, holistic, and positive outcome. Nurses can assess stressors and adjust care to increase patient comfort, which leads to improved health behaviors.
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- 1. Theory of Human Comfort KATHARINE KOLCABA
- 2. DEFINE THE THEORY Kathy Kolcaba developed the Theory of Comfort in the 1990s as a means of promoting optimal patient outcomes. She defines the concept of comfort in relation to nursing as, "the satisfaction... of the basic human needs for relief, ease or transcendence arising from health care situations that are stressful" (1993). Dr. Kolcaba outlines three factors in the theory that are considered common knowledge. These assumptions are human beings have holistic responses to complex stimuli comfort is a desirable holistic outcome that is germaine to the discipline of nursing, human beings strive to meet, or to have met, their basic comfort needs
- 3. TWO DIMENSIONS TO THE THEORY OF COMFORT The first dimension includes three states (Kolcaba, 1993): Relief Ease Transcendence The second dimension includes four contexts in which individuals experience comfort (Kolcaba, 1993): Physical Psychospiritual Social Enviromental
- 4. CONCEPTS
- 5. PROPOSITIONS The theory of comfort is crucial to the nursing profession as it "provides direction for nursing practice and research because it entails an outcome that is measurable, holistic, positive and nurse-sensitive. Clinicians have the capability and disciplinary interest to effect comfort, and patients look to nurses for help in achieving comfort" (Kolcaba, 1993 As nurses observe various stressors that their patients are experiencing, they can adjust their therapies and strategies to promote comfort for their patients. According to the theory, such interventions can lead to improved health seeking behaviors from patients, which in turn increases comfort (Kolcaba, 1993). The theory of comfort presents an incredibly useful guide for the nursing community as it seeks to promote optimal holistic outcomes for patients during such stressful times.
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