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15 pts
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Types of comfort (relief, ease and transcendence) are described and explained in significant detail as applied to the case study (Mrs. C)
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Katharine Kolcaba: Theory
of Comfort
Katharine Kolcaba
(1944-Present)’
April Bice*
“In today’s technological world, nursing’s historic mission of providing comfort
to patients andfanily memnbers is even more important. Comfort is an antidote
to the stressors inherent in health care situations today, and when comfort is
enhanced, paticnts and families are strengthened for the tasks ahead. In addition,
urses feel more satisfied with the care they are giving”
(K. Kolcaba, personal communication, May 16, 2020)
graduate school. In 1987, she graduaied
in the first RN to
MSN class at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, yitt
a specialty in
gerontology. While in school, she job-shared e head nurse
position on a dementia unit. It was in is Tactice context
that she began theorizing about the ouicome of patient
In the unforeseen and unforgettable time of a coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, nurses have
provided comfort in ways they never thought they would.
In 2019 the World Health Organization declared 2020 as
the year of the nurse, and that is exactly what it became.
Across the globe, nurses have engaged in substituting for
family members and friends. They provided comfort in
various ways, even in times of death, when husbands,
wives, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters could not hold
their loved ones due to quarantine. This substitution
comfort was coupled with the growing need for nurses to
also be comforted and transcend in a modern world going
through an age-old threat-a novei virus.
comfort.
Kolcaba joined the faculty at the University of Akron
College of Nursing after graduating with her master’s
degree in nursing and gained an American Nurses Asso-
ciation (ANA) certification in gerontology. She returned to
CWRU to pursue her doctorate in nursing on a part-time
basis while continuing to teach. Over the next 10 years, she
used course work in her doctoral program to develop and
explicate her theory in a series of published articles, now
summarized in her book (Kolcaba, 2003). It is in this text
that Kolcaba describes and explains, in detail, the concepts,
propositions, and application of comfort theory.
Dr. Kolcaba is retired from the University of Akron as
an emeritus associate professor. Her nursing interests
include interventions for and documentation of changes in
comfort for evidence-based practice. She resides in the
Cleveland area with her husband, where she enjoys being
near her grandchildren. She represents her company, Ihe
Comfort Line, to assist health care agencies implement
the theory of comfort on a system-wide basis. She is also
CREDENTIALS AND BACKGROUND
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33
Katharine Kolcaba: Theory
of Comfort
Katharine Kolcaba
(1944-Present)’
April Bice*
“In today’s technological world, nursing’s historic mission of providing comfort
to patients andfanily memnbers is even more important. Comfort is an antidote
to the stressors inherent in health care situations today, and when comfort is
enhanced, paticnts and families are strengthened for the tasks ahead. In addition,
urses feel more satisfied with the care they are giving”
(K. Kolcaba, personal communication, May 16, 2020)
graduate school. In 1987, she graduaied
in the first RN to
MSN class at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, yitt
a specialty in
gerontology. While in school, she job-shared e head nurse
position on a dementia unit. It was in is Tactice context
that she began theorizing about the ouicome of patient
In the unforeseen and unforgettable time of a coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, nurses have
provided comfort in ways they never thought they would.
In 2019 the World Health Organization declared 2020 as
the year of the nurse, and that is exactly what it became.
Across the globe, nurses have engaged in substituting for
family members and friends. They provided comfort in
various ways, even in times of death, when husbands,
wives, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters could not hold
their loved ones due to quarantine. This substitution
comfort was coupled with the growing need for nurses to
also be comforted and transcend in a modern world going
through an age-old threat-a novei virus.
comfort.
Kolcaba joined the faculty at the University of Akron
College of Nursing after graduating with her master’s
degree in nursing and gained an American Nurses Asso-
ciation (ANA) certification in gerontology. She returned to
CWRU to pursue her doctorate in nursing on a part-time
basis while continuing to teach. Over the next 10 years, she
used course work in her doctoral program to develop and
explicate her theory in a series of published articles, now
summarized in her book (Kolcaba, 2003). It is in this text
that Kolcaba describes and explains, in detail, the concepts,
propositions, and application of comfort theory.
Dr. Kolcaba is retired from the University of Akron as
an emeritus associate professor. Her nursing interests
include interventions for and documentation of changes in
comfort for evidence-based practice. She resides in the
Cleveland area with her husband, where she enjoys being
near her grandchildren. She represents her company, Ihe
Comfort Line, to assist health care agencies implement
the theory of comfort on a system-wide basis. She is also
CREDENTIALS AND BACKGROUND
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