Shirley Moore Flashcards
In the peaceful end-of-life theory, the structure-setting is the family system (terminally ill patient and all significant others)
Peaceful End-of-Life Theory
Being free of the suffering or symptom distress is the central part of many patients’ end-of-life experience.
Not Being in Pain
Comfort is defined inclusively, using Kolcaba’s work as “relief from discomfort, the state of ease and peaceful contentment
Experience of Comfort
Each terminally ill patient is “respected and valued as a human being”.
Experience of Dignity and Respect
“feeling of calmness, harmony, and contentment, [free of] anxiety, restlessness, worries, and fear”
Peace or Being at Peace
is “the feeling of connectedness to other human beings who care”.
Closeness or Closeness to Signiicant Others