Exam 21: Katharine Kolcabacomfort Theory

Which of the following theorists influenced Kolcaba's development of comfort theory?

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

Kolcaba believes nurses already know how to practice comforting care.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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