Katherine Kolcaba is a middle range theorist who is well known for the development of Comfort Theory in the 1990's. Kolcaba's theory began with an analysis and the concept of comfort. While organizing the concept analysis, she studied various fields of knowledge on the topic of comfort and developed a group of related concepts. She implied that comfort is a patient outcome, and is more than the absence of pain. She defines comfort as the experience of being invigorated through having the needs for the three types of comfort and met by the four contexts of human experience(George,2014).
Kolcaba study resulted in the development of three types of comfort and identified the four context of human experience. The four contexts are physical, psychospiritual, environmental, and sociocultural. The physical applies to the bodily sensations and maintain a constant condition, the psychospiritual is self-awareness, the environmentalist pertains to the surroundings, and sociocultural refers to family, interpersonal, and societal relationships (Krinsky, Murillo, & Johnson, 2014). Her theory attained from fellow theorists; relief came from Orlando, ease…show more content… Comfort food for the soul is unexpected interventions. The four metaparadigm in the theory of comfort nursing, health, person, and environment. Nursing is a purposeful assessment of the comfort needs of patients, families, or community. Nurses should address the needs and plan comfort measures, implement it, and compare it to the previous threshold of comfort. A person represents a patient, an individual in need of care, family, or community. The environment is the external factors which can be maneuvered to improve comfort. Health is the highest function of a patient, family, and community to promote comfort
