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Comfort theory and practice : a vision for holistic health care and research / Katharine Kolcaba.
Holman Biotech Commons R733 .K584 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kolcaba, Katharine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holistic medicine.
- Alternative medicine.
- Holistic Health.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Medical Subjects:
- Holistic Health.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 The Seeds of Inquiry 1
- A Brief Autobiography
- Practice Setting for the First Comfort Diagram
- Concept Analysis
- Three Types of Comfort
- Four Contexts of Experience
- The Taxonomic Structure of Comfort
- 2 The Mission 19
- Comfort as a Nursing Value in the 1900s
- Collective Consciousness: Prior Research and Theory
- 1992: Comfort Makes a Comeback
- 3 Measuring Comfort 37
- Designing the First Comfort Questionnaire
- Issues to Resolve About Comfort
- Pilot Test of General Comfort Questionnaire
- Dissertation Time
- Suggested Methods for Comfort Studies
- Measuring Comfort in Your Own Population
- 4 Philosophical Perspectives 59
- Hierarchy of Philosophical Perspectives
- Empirical Evidence for the Nature of Holistic Comfort
- Discussion about Quantifying Holistic Comfort
- 5 Theoretical Explorations 75
- Dissertation Continued
- Developing a Mid-Range Theory of Comfort
- Comfort Care and Comfort Measures
- 6 Attributes of Comfort 89
- The Nature of Concept Analysis
- Concept Analysis Assignment per Walker and Avant
- 7 The Experiments 111
- Conceptual and Operational Definitions of Comfort
- Four Quantitative Studies
- What We Learned From the Above Studies
- 8 The Ethics of Comfort Care 129
- The Study of Ethics
- Comfort Care Across Health Disciplines
- Ethical Obligations
- Ethical Consequences of Entrusted Care
- Substituted Judgment
- Comfort Care at End of Life
- Virtue Ethics of Care and Compassion
- Memorable Nurses
- 9 Mission Updated 149
- Theory of Comfort Evolves for Outcomes Research
- Nursing-Sensitive Outcomes
- Need for Standardized Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Measures
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pain and Comfort
- Nurse Productivity
- Innovative Models of Comfort Care Utilizing Institutional Integrity
- Comfort of Nurses
- 10 Visions of Comfort for the Future 185
- Comfort at the Patient/Family Level
- Comfort at the Hospital/Institutional Level
- Comfort at the Community Level
- Comfort at the National Level
- Comfort at the Global Level
- Comfort Work for the Future
- Appendix A General Comfort Questionnaire 215
- Appendix B Radiation Therapy
- Comfort Questionnaire 219
- Appendix C Comfort Lines 223
- Appendix D Peri-Operative Comfort Questionnaire 225
- Appendix E Modified Karnofsky Performance Status Scale 227
- Appendix F Hospice Comfort Questionnaire (Patient) 229
- Appendix G American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses 233
- Appendix H International Council of Nurses (ICN) Code of Ethics for Nurses 235
- Appendix I FAQs From The Comfort Line 239
- Appendix J Evaluation of Comfort Theory 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826116337
- OCLC:
- 50042975
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