Katheryn Kolcaba's Comfort Theory

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Comfort theory by Katheryn Kolcaba is the experience of having Physical, Psychospiritual, Environmental and sociocultural needs met by the relief, ease, or transcendence of each problem. For example pain is the physical issue, Low self-esteem would be a psychospiritual, being in a noisy room can be environment, and not having sufficient finances for sociocultural problems. To relieve any of these problems is to meet each need and solve the problem. Ease is to calm the problem reducing or taking it away, and transcendence is rise above the needs or outgrow the needs (Flood, 2013). This theory addresses how one would identify and solve problems related to care, it also is used in nursing assessment. Identification of the problem is the first …show more content…

If one is lacking then it brings down the others and the opposite occurs if they advance together. This chart explains the theory in a way that research can be conducted. Based on the article “A practical application of Katharine Kolcaba’s comfort theory to cardiac patients” by Robin Krinsky two case studies were used to test the theory. The first case study was using the theory to state what went wrong in a situation. The patient had a poor outcome in this case study, the theory was applied to see what could have been done to increase the patients comfort and care.
A patient who was experiencing a MI went to the ER and remained there for 12 hours with no rest and no contact with wife. Normal precautions for MI were completed, labs drawn appropriately, EKG’s taken, Oxygen and Nitro administered. However, the patient had no quiet time and was transferred to cardiac floor after relief of chest pain. Without nursing staff attending to any needs other than immediate pain the patient was admitted into a 4 bed room. Unable to relax and worrying about being in the hospital alone the patient starts feeling angina again. They are upset and uncertain about what is happening. (Krinsky, 2014) Using the comfort model on this situation it is easy to see that a few things could be done to help. This can be simply put with the taxonomic structure of comfort

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