Exam 21: Katharine Kolcabas Comfort Theory

Kolcaba defines interventions that produce the best possible patient and family outcomes,based on empirical evidence,as:

Interventions specified by other disciplines or by nursing protocols that include medication,treatments,monitoring schedules,insertion of lines,etc. ,are defined as ______ interventions by Kolcaba.

For Kolcaba,the outcome of comfort is the immediate experience of being strengthened when needs for ______,_______,and ______ are met.

Which of the following theorists influenced Kolcaba's development of Comfort Theory?

Being complete,whole,sound,upright,appealing,ethical,and sincere are defined by Kolcaba as qualities of:

Kolcaba created a __________ to present the nursing meaning of comfort as a patient outcome.

Kolcaba believes nurses already know how to practice comforting care.

Kolcaba asserts comfort is experienced by patients in physical,psychospiritual,sociocultural,and environmental contexts.

Those extra special,holistic,and more time-consuming nursing interventions,such as back or hand message,guided imagery,or music or art therapy,are defined as ______ interventions by Kolcaba.

Kolcaba distinguished between three types of comfort,including:

The intuitive parts of Kolcaba's Comfort Theory cannot be applied separately;they must be applied as a whole.

According to Kolcaba,individuals experience comfort in which of the following domains?