To provide comfort care, one must first define the meaning of comfort care. Comfort care for nursing is defined by Kolcaba (2009). Kolcaba explained comfort care as a principles of health care that focuses on physical, psychospiritual, sociocultural, and environmental comfort care for the patient. It’s also well-defined as, given care to progress the quality of one’s life especially in patients who has a life-threatening illness. Working in the oncology unit for cancer patients, has often given me the opportunity to care for patients, who are at the end of their life. My experience dealing with the patient and family has been interesting. I have been blessed to be a part of the transitioning of a patients care. Being able to support their
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Orlando progress the planned nursing process in which, nurses are made-up to properly assess a patient’s well-being to regulate the efficiency of the intervention. Watson had a theory that develop on human caring. His theory used comfort to modify the inner and outer part of the environment of a patient. Even though these theories talks about the comfort in a patient’s outcome, they actually do not fully analyze the concept of comfort in itself. This leaves the nurse to define the true meaning of comfort.
A study was completed to examine the effectiveness of comfort care at the end of life. There was a questionnaire that was named Hospice Comfort Questionnaire (HQC). HQC was used to ask the patient questions that rate the four contexts which was defined by Kolcaba. The outcome determined that the questionnaire had an increase of consistency and that it delivered the capability to assess and document continuing efforts at provided comfort at the end of life for the …show more content…
After the patient has been admitted and a CT scan was performed, the results showed that the cancer had metastasize to other parts of the body. Family was notified that there was nothing left for the physician to do for this patient. The patient requested to be placed on do not resuscitate (DNR), nor would they like to be intubated. The patient was place on comfort measure only, and was placed on a morphine drip, with fluids. The next day the patent was pronounced dead, having no suffering or distress during the last
Orlando progress the planned nursing process in which, nurses are made-up to properly assess a patient’s well-being to regulate the efficiency of the intervention. Watson had a theory that develop on human caring. His theory used comfort to modify the inner and outer part of the environment of a patient. Even though these theories talks about the comfort in a patient’s outcome, they actually do not fully analyze the concept of comfort in itself. This leaves the nurse to define the true meaning of comfort.
A study was completed to examine the effectiveness of comfort care at the end of life. There was a questionnaire that was named Hospice Comfort Questionnaire (HQC). HQC was used to ask the patient questions that rate the four contexts which was defined by Kolcaba. The outcome determined that the questionnaire had an increase of consistency and that it delivered the capability to assess and document continuing efforts at provided comfort at the end of life for the …show more content…
After the patient has been admitted and a CT scan was performed, the results showed that the cancer had metastasize to other parts of the body. Family was notified that there was nothing left for the physician to do for this patient. The patient requested to be placed on do not resuscitate (DNR), nor would they like to be intubated. The patient was place on comfort measure only, and was placed on a morphine drip, with fluids. The next day the patent was pronounced dead, having no suffering or distress during the last