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Kolcaba Comfort Theory
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Holism: Perspective that holds that persons are in and surrounded by their environment & that nurses can and should manipulate surrounding environmental features to enhance patient comfort
Outcomes: Kolcaba's theory maintains that when nurses effectively address comfort needs of patients, better patients and institutional ___ are achieved.
Comfort: Immediate state of being strengthened by having needs met in four contexts of human experience (physical, psychospiritual, social, and environmental)
Environment: The aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an individual or community
Health Seeking Behaviors: Patient actions of which they may or may not be aware and which may or may not be observed that are indicators of improved health or as peaceful death
Man: An individual human
Integrity: Decreased lengths of stay, successful discharges, and improved public relations when patients and families are happy with their health care lead to improved institutional ____; an unimpaired condition
Holistic: Human beings have ___ responses to complex stimuli; refers to the whole person
Health: Condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly
Interventions: Intentional care by nurses directed to meeting comfort needs of patients
Stay: Health-seeking behaviors decrease the length of this for patients.
Social: One of the four contexts of human experience that Kolcaba's theory addresses in its holistic perspective in order to enhance patient comfort
Nightingale: Kolcaba Comfort Theory is congruent with this person's view of environment as element that can aid the healing and restoration of health; HINT: she is considered the founder of nursing
Nursing: the profession of a nurse
Kolcaba Comfort Theory
Across:1. | Patient actions of which they may or may not be aware and which may or may not be observed that are indicators of improved health or as peaceful death | 3. | Condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly | 6. | Human beings have ___ responses to complex stimuli; refers to the whole person | 8. | Intentional care by nurses directed to meeting comfort needs of patients | 11. | The aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an individual or community | 13. | Kolcaba Comfort Theory is congruent with this person's view of environment as element that can aid the healing and restoration of health; HINT: she is considered the founder of nursing | 14. | Health-seeking behaviors decrease the length of this for patients. |
| | Down:2. | Decreased lengths of stay, successful discharges, and improved public relations when patients and families are happy with their health care lead to improved institutional ____; an unimpaired condition | 4. | Perspective that holds that persons are in and surrounded by their environment & that nurses can and should manipulate surrounding environmental features to enhance patient comfort | 5. | Kolcaba's theory maintains that when nurses effectively address comfort needs of patients, better patients and institutional ___ are achieved. | 7. | Immediate state of being strengthened by having needs met in four contexts of human experience (physical, psychospiritual, social, and environmental) | 9. | the profession of a nurse | 10. | One of the four contexts of human experience that Kolcaba's theory addresses in its holistic perspective in order to enhance patient comfort | 12. | An individual human |
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Kolcaba Comfort Theory
Across:1. | Patient actions of which they may or may not be aware and which may or may not be observed that are indicators of improved health or as peaceful death | 3. | Condition of an organism or one of its parts in which it performs its vital functions normally or properly | 6. | Human beings have ___ responses to complex stimuli; refers to the whole person | 8. | Intentional care by nurses directed to meeting comfort needs of patients | 11. | The aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an individual or community | 13. | Kolcaba Comfort Theory is congruent with this person's view of environment as element that can aid the healing and restoration of health; HINT: she is considered the founder of nursing | 14. | Health-seeking behaviors decrease the length of this for patients. |
| | Down:2. | Decreased lengths of stay, successful discharges, and improved public relations when patients and families are happy with their health care lead to improved institutional ____; an unimpaired condition | 4. | Perspective that holds that persons are in and surrounded by their environment & that nurses can and should manipulate surrounding environmental features to enhance patient comfort | 5. | Kolcaba's theory maintains that when nurses effectively address comfort needs of patients, better patients and institutional ___ are achieved. | 7. | Immediate state of being strengthened by having needs met in four contexts of human experience (physical, psychospiritual, social, and environmental) | 9. | the profession of a nurse | 10. | One of the four contexts of human experience that Kolcaba's theory addresses in its holistic perspective in order to enhance patient comfort | 12. | An individual human |
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PuzzleFast.com, Noncommercial Use Only