Nursing Theories Flashcards
Author of “Comfort Theory and Practice: A Vision for
Holistic Health Care and Research.”
Katherine Kolcoba
What is the role of Nurses in the Comfort Theory
assess a patient’s comfort needs and create a nursing care
plan to meet those needs.
Patient Comfort can exist in 3 forms…
Relief / Ease / Transcendence
Relief / Ease / Transcendence can exist in 4 contexts…
Physical / Psychospiritual / Environmental / Sociocultural
Usually comes in the form of pain management through medications.
When medications are administered, the patient has a sense of relief
Relief Comfort
focused more
on the
environment and
psychological
state of the
patient.
Ease Comfort
Comes when a
patient is able to
rise above
challenges that
occur in care and
recovery.
Transcendence Comfort
Needs identified
by the patient
and/or family in a
particular nursing
practice setting
Health Care Needs
factors that
are not likely to
change, and over
which health care
providers have
little control.
Intervening Variables
the value,
financial stability,
and wholeness of
health care
Institutional Integrity
United Kingdom’s FIRST PROFESSOR OF
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING at Newcastle University
Author Of the Tidal Model
Phil Barker
protocols and
procedures
developed by an
institution for
overall use after
the collection of
evidence.
Best Policies
views health and illness as fluid,
portraying life as a journey on an ocean of
experience
The Tidal Model
A belief in the virtue of curiosity
Recognition of the power
Respect for the patient’s wishes
Acceptance of the paradox
Acknowledging that all goals must belong to the
patient
The virtue of pursuing elegance
6 Philosophical Assumptions of the Tidal Model
In the tidal Model, the Person is represented in 3
domains.
Self, World and Others Domain
where people
feel their
experiences, and
it includes an
emphasis on
making patients
more secure
Self Domain
