Middle range nursing theories cover larger populations in different settings than grand theories and contain a few concepts that are testable. Pender’s Health Promotion Model and Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory are both middle range nursing theories that have stood the tests of both time and trials. There are several similarities as well as differences. The following pages will compare and contrast these theories while illustrating that both are middle range nursing theories.
Nola Pender developed the Health Promotion Model over the 1980s and 1990s. Its purpose is to help nurses to understand the factors that play into the activities healthy lifestyles and how to encourage those activities. It originated from the belief that humans are a combination of mind, body, and spirit that relate with their surroundings to meet individual needs and goals. A tool has been developed to assist with assessment and planning. The theory can be generalized and applied to government agencies, insurance companies, large corporations, and schools. It is parsimonious and has been …show more content…
This idea, succinctly stated is there are three types of comfort (relief, ease, and transcendence) that reach into four kinds of experience (physical, psychospiritual, socialcultural, and environmental) to bring patients to meet the goal of care that addresses the level of comfort (Kolcaba & DiMarco, 2005). It is quite practical to nursing and has generalizable, and has been tested in many populations. It is parsimonious.
Pender and Kolcaba’s theories are both succinct, easily tested, and generalized. Table 1 compares the two theory analyses side by side using the Walker and Avant method. They both consider human beings holistically. They differ in that the health promotion model is meant to improve, maintain, and prevent disease. Comfort theory is about addressing the needs of patients in whatever stage of disease patients may be and improve their levels of
Nola Pender developed the Health Promotion Model over the 1980s and 1990s. Its purpose is to help nurses to understand the factors that play into the activities healthy lifestyles and how to encourage those activities. It originated from the belief that humans are a combination of mind, body, and spirit that relate with their surroundings to meet individual needs and goals. A tool has been developed to assist with assessment and planning. The theory can be generalized and applied to government agencies, insurance companies, large corporations, and schools. It is parsimonious and has been …show more content…
This idea, succinctly stated is there are three types of comfort (relief, ease, and transcendence) that reach into four kinds of experience (physical, psychospiritual, socialcultural, and environmental) to bring patients to meet the goal of care that addresses the level of comfort (Kolcaba & DiMarco, 2005). It is quite practical to nursing and has generalizable, and has been tested in many populations. It is parsimonious.
Pender and Kolcaba’s theories are both succinct, easily tested, and generalized. Table 1 compares the two theory analyses side by side using the Walker and Avant method. They both consider human beings holistically. They differ in that the health promotion model is meant to improve, maintain, and prevent disease. Comfort theory is about addressing the needs of patients in whatever stage of disease patients may be and improve their levels of