Kathrine Kolcaba

Question 1

Explains comfort as a fundamental need of all human beings arising from stressful health care situations.

Answer 1

Comfort Theory

Question 2

Results from nursing care or interventions and when the patient’s health needs are met.

Answer 2

Comfort

Question 3

4 contexts of comfort

Answer 3

Physical
Psychospiritual
Environmental
Sociocultural

Question 4

Pertaining to bodily sensations, homeostatic mechanisms, immune infection, etc.

Answer 4

Physical Comfort

Question 5

Pertaining to internal awareness of self, including esteem, identity, sexuality, meaning in one’s life and one’s understood relationship to a higher order or being

Answer 5

Psychospiritual Comfort

Question 6

Pertaining to external background of human experience (temperature, light, sound, odor, furniture, landscape, etc.)

Answer 6

Environmental

Question 7

Pertaining to interpersonal, family and societal relationship

Answer 7

Sociocultural Comfort

Question 8

3 Types of comfort

Answer 8

Relief
Ease
Transcendence

Question 9

the state of having a specific healthcare need met

Answer 9

Relief

Question 10

The state of contentment or calmness

Answer 10

Ease

Question 11

State in which one can rise above problems or pain.

Answer 11

Transcendence

Question 12

Founder of Comfort Theory

Answer 12

Kathrine Kolcaba