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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Running Head: QUALITY OF LIFE 1 Concept Analysis: Quality of Life Metropolitan State University Nursing 601 October 18‚ 2010 Running Head: QUALITY OF LIFE 2 Concept Introduction The term “quality of life” is used frequently in health care and in nursing practice. However‚ this term
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Irma D. Felton 21 May 2011 ENG 105 English Composition John Lowery There is Power in Words Racism is still alive in America. It is not as overt but its presence is still felt. I believe there is power in words. The Bible says there is death and life in the power of the tongue. Words can either be used to edify‚ uplift and encourage or they can be used to tear down‚ demoralize and debase. Which do you choose? In this essay I will attempt to analyze how African Americans have
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Related to the Theory of Comfort Introduction Practicing as a nurse‚ I realize I follow my own metaparadigm of nursing. In this paper‚ I relate my own personal beliefs with that of a popular nursing theorist. Though my research on theory is just beginning‚ I feel my metaparadigm most relates to that of Katharine Kolcaba and her theory of comfort. I will seek to illustrate my philosophy with the knowledge and nursing experience I have. Origin of Theory The idea of comfort and theory started to
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Cadero Smiley Date: December 4‚ 2011 Application Essay #2 Question: The Watson Fellowship encourages Fellows to move outside of their “comfort zone.” Briefly describe your “comfort zone‚” focusing on the world beyond family life‚ and then describe an instance in which you moved outside of your “comfort zone.” In 2003‚ Together with fellow classmates we formed an Activism group‚ bearing our high school name. With a plethora of issues to confront‚ we reached consensus
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in the acquisition of Southern Comfort. These methods all yield the same result‚ i.e. Southern Comfort is expensive at the asking price of $94.6million. The valuation methods also examined the reasonableness of the acquisition using methods such as Free Cashflow Analysis‚ Book Value methods and Price Earnings ratios analysis The qualitative aspects have also been analysed to find out if there is value from a qualitative perspective. Methods such as SWOT analysis have been utilized to check if
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of the concept of Adaptive Thermal comfort I have recorded my thermal sensation by an hour intervals during a week. At this time‚ the relative humidity and temperature of my surrounding environment was been recorded by a sensor carried by me at all the time‚ every 900seconds. Background 3 A further thermal study of my living space was developed at the same time but carried out for a longer period. The data obtained from this survey is shown in the following slides. 4 Comfort Feeling
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The candidate that I would hire would be Karen Comfort‚ BSN. The reason why I would hire Karen Comfort‚ BSN is because she seem to be the most reliable candidate who meets most to all of the criteria needed to feel the position of the medical consultant for the sales division. Karen Comfort BSN‚ have been employed in various positions in a variety of medical specialty practices. She has also worked with medical doctors and hospital administrators so that means that she has experience with working
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To... Comfort the afflicted‚ afflict the Comfortable A Selected Critical Annotated Bibliography of Postmodern Thought and Nursing By C. E. Betts Professor of Nursing Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton‚ Ontario‚ Canada © 2007 – Granted we want truth: why not rather untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? – The problem of the value of truth stepped before us – or was it we who stepped before this problem? – (Nietzsche‚ 1990‚ p. 33) Introduction: Although most agree
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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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