For theory to be important to nursing, it needs to be closely linked to its clinical significance or practical value, it must be forward looking, usable in practice, education and research (Chinn and Kramer, 2015). The theory of urine control derived from Roy’s adaptation model can be used by nurses to reform practices and guide research (Jirovec, Jenkins, Isenberg, & Baiardi, 1999). To understand how to use this nursing theory, they must first understand the conceptual framework. Once the connections between the input stimuli and how patients have individual coping mechanisms depending on their past physiological and psychological experiences, a unique plan of care that includes the appropriate adaptive mode to maintain urine continence. Groupings of similar input stimuli and adaptive mode variation can be laid out to devise care
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An example, may include having a planned bathroom schedule every hour or two for patients who require assistance to the bathroom or have impaired perception as part of their daily plan of care.
In the concept analysis of comfort, comfort was defined as “the state of having met basic human needs for ease, relief, and transcendence”, and the taxonomic structure previously identified in 1991 stated “the most important insight was that comfort needs occurred in both physical and mental contexts of human experience (Kolcaba, p. 88, 1994). The practice guidelines for holistic comfort care conclude “health care needs, including physical, psychospiritual, social and environmental needs that arise for patients in stressful care situations” (Kolcaba, p. 90, 1994). I believe that nursing does a good job of attending to the physical needs of comfort, demonstrated by the measurement and documentation of hourly pain assessments on a Likert type scale based on patients’ perception of pain or discomfort, with appropriate treatment or pain medication as an intervention. Some areas that are not always assessed or intervened
An example, may include having a planned bathroom schedule every hour or two for patients who require assistance to the bathroom or have impaired perception as part of their daily plan of care.
In the concept analysis of comfort, comfort was defined as “the state of having met basic human needs for ease, relief, and transcendence”, and the taxonomic structure previously identified in 1991 stated “the most important insight was that comfort needs occurred in both physical and mental contexts of human experience (Kolcaba, p. 88, 1994). The practice guidelines for holistic comfort care conclude “health care needs, including physical, psychospiritual, social and environmental needs that arise for patients in stressful care situations” (Kolcaba, p. 90, 1994). I believe that nursing does a good job of attending to the physical needs of comfort, demonstrated by the measurement and documentation of hourly pain assessments on a Likert type scale based on patients’ perception of pain or discomfort, with appropriate treatment or pain medication as an intervention. Some areas that are not always assessed or intervened