Contexts of Comfort
Forms of Comfort
Nursing Meta-paradigm
Background
100

Which context consists of bodily sensations and homeostatic mechanisms?

Physical 

100

Which form of comfort describes a state a patient is in when they have a need met?

Relief 

100

What nursing meta paradigm concept in the context of comfort theory addresses the patient that is experiencing comfort?

Person

100

What area did Katharine Kolcaba specialize in during her MSN program at Case Western?

Gerontology 

200

Which context of comfort consists of self-awareness, sexuality, relationship to higher beings, and life meaning

Psychospiritual

200

Which form of comfort describes being in a state of calmness?

Ease

200

What nursing meta paradigm concept in the context of comfort theory addresses external factors that influence comfort?

Environment 

200

What unit influenced her to start the development of the theory of comfort?

A dementia unit

300

Which context consists of external surroundings and influences?

Environmental 

300

Which form of comfort is a state of rising above one's problems and/ or pain? 

Transcendence 

300

What nursing meta paradigm concept in the context of comfort theory discusses a state that comfort positively influences?

Health

300

Where was Katharine Kolcaba born?

Cleveland 

400

Which comfort context consists of interpersonal and family.

Sociocultural 

400

Which concept is described as "the immediate experience of being strengthened by having needs for relief, ease, and transcendence met in four contexts" 

Holistic Comfort

400

What nursing meta paradigm concept in the context of comfort theory covers implementing and assessing interventions to promote comfort?

Nursing 

400

What is her current profession?

Professor at the University of Akron.

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