Cognitive-relational theory defines stress as a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being (Lazarus & Folkman‚ 1984b‚ p. 19). Appraisals are determined simultaneously by perceiving environmental demands and personal resources. They can change over time due to coping effectiveness‚ altered requirements‚ or improvements in personal abilities. The cognitive-relational theory
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Too Close for Comfort When you think of marriage‚ usually one thinks of a couple coming together to begin a life and to start a family together. Generally speaking a married couple is also considered to be in a legal‚ religious and/or social agreement. As time has passed by the stereotypical marriage is not only for heterosexual couples‚ homosexual couples have been allowed to marry their partners. So how has marriage changed socially and how does it change individuals once they “tie the knot”? According
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Katharine Kolcaba: Comfort Theory Sarah SchlenvogtPresentation College In my nursing practice with long term care residents‚ I frequently care for dying residents. Instead of simply providing these patients with medication to ease the pain‚ I wanted to learn about ways to enhance the comfort of the dying patient and assist their beloved family throughout the difficult process. This desire led me to undertake a concept analysis of comfort. Through my research at the end of life‚ I discovered Katharine
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Katharine Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Kelly Ferreira Summer‚ 2004. In the early part of the 20th century‚ comfort was the central goal of nursing and medicine. Comfort was the nurse’s first consideration. A "good nurse" made patients comfortable. In the early 1900’s‚ textbooks emphasized the role of a health care provider in assuring emotional and physical comfort and in adjusting the patient’s environment. For example‚ in 1926‚ Harmer advocated that nursing care be
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Katherine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory Annette Hall St Joseph’s College of Maine Abstract Katherine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory fits best with my philosophy of nursing and my current work environment. As a hospice nurse comfort is the top priority. The goal of hospice care is to provide comfort and dignity at the end of life. The technical term for comfort for health care is the immediate state of being strengthened by having the needs for relief‚ ease‚ and transcendence addressed in the four context of
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Throughout nursing history‚ many nursing theorists have referred to comfort as a basic need for which nursing care is delivered. This simple concept of comfort‚ however‚ was never clearly defined. Comfort has many meanings and can be used in many different ways. Kolcaba’s comfort theory explains how a patient’s comfort exists in three forms –relief‚ ease‚ and transcendence (Kolcaba‚ 2003‚ p. 9). When a person’s specific needs are met or a specific discomfort is alleviated‚ for example receiving
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Using Insights to Choose Theory-Katharine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory Choosing a nursing theory that resonates and embodies my personal values‚ beliefs and nursing practice is imperative to the advancement of my nursing practice and lifelong development. Katharine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory is a middle-range theory that has been my personal favorite since learning about her almost five years ago as I embarked on a new collaborative journey when opening a new hospital from the ground up in my own community
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All three leaders - Kelsey‚ Hall‚ and Kurbing – each use a distinctly different approach to leading the hospital’s operation. Hall’s trait approach to leadership focused so much on her internal qualities that the imbalance resulted in a lack of relational leadership. The closed doors of communication with the rest of the staff caused an unclear picture of what Hall’s actual role entailed. Since not very much information is given about Hall‚ it would not necessarily be fair to compare her to Kelsey
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savour foods | Savour Food Document | Conceptual and relational data model | | Submitted toMiss sarfrazSubmitted by Saba luqman | 6/26/2013 | Who we are? Countless are the bounties of our Lord Almighty. The minerals lying hidden inside the bowels of mother earth‚ the sundry season and the various crops sprouting and flourishing in those seasons and then their mouth-watering‚ tastes tickling our buds – ”Oh which of Allah’s blessings can you deny.” Same are the tastes that we extracted
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Relational Dynamics Planes‚ Trains‚ and Automobile is a film that tells a tale of a family oriented man Neal trying to make it home to his beloved wife and kids before thanksgiving‚ although he faces transportation obstacles that delays his goal and oddly enough encounters another man by the name of Del. Throughout most of the film the relationship between the two main characters is exceedingly strained due to their difference of mental attitudes‚ which leads to their clashes of destructive communication
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