Kolcaba - Comfort Theory

Question 1

Which theorists influenced Kolcaba’s development of comfort theory?

Answer 1

Orlando, Henderson, and Paterson & Zderad

Question 2

For Kolcaba, the outcome of comfort is the immediate experience of being strengthened when needs for _______, _______, and _______ are met.

Answer 2

Relief, ease, and transcendence

Question 3

Kolcaba created a _______ to present the nursing meaning of comfort as a patient outcome.

Answer 3

Taxonomic Structure

Question 4

Being complete, whole, sound, upright, appealing, ethical, and sincere are defined by Kolcaba as qualities of:

Answer 4

Institutional integrity

Question 5

Kolcaba defines interventions that produce the best possible patient and family outcomes, based on empirical evidence as:

Answer 5

Best practice

Question 6

Interventions specified by other disciples or by nursing protocols that include medication, treatments, monitoring schedules, insertion of lines, etc. are defined as _______ interventions by Kolcaba.

Answer 6

Technical

Question 7

Those extra special, holistic, and more time-consuming nursing interventions such as back or hand massage, guided imagery, or music or art therapy are defined as ______ interventions by Kolcaba.

Answer 7

Comfort food for the soul

Question 8

T/F: Kolcaba asserts comfort is experienced by patients in physical, psychospiritual, sociocultural, and environmental contexts.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

T/F: The intuitive parts of Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory cannot be applied separately; they must be applied as a whole.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

T/F: Kolcaba believes nurses already know how to practice comforting care.

Answer 10

True