Comfort

career as, or what do you want to be known as?” I asked him. In response, he replies, “An entrepreneur.” I actually already knew much about him, since we’ve been friends for so long. His name is Aron Collins; he runs part of a franchise, known as Comfort Keepers, in two different locations in Texas. Its specialty is in-home care for the elderly, and Mr. Collins has been quite successful in building his business up. When he first became the owner of a company, I remember when he had to live with…

Before I went to watch glassblowing, I thought that it was just a hobby and it would be almost impossible to make a living off of it. Upon arrival to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, I realized that this art form has artists that are both doing this for a living and doing this for a hobby. Glassblowing is an art that everyone should know about but many people have never actually witnessed it. I had the honor of observing and interviewing Lino Tagliapietra, who is considered by most to be the…

Comfort Level Facilitating Groups In this paper, I will briefly describe two types of groups and address my personal comfort as a facilitator for each. I will describe the differences in my confidence and comfort level facilitating psychoeducational and psychotherapy groups. Following the group descriptions, I will write about potential strategies that can be employed to reduce my discomfort and improve effectiveness as a group leader. Description of Groups Corey, Corey, and Corey (2010)…

(1) Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Dr. Katharine Kolcaba’s comfort theory is a mid-range theory which promotes focusing on the holistic comfort needs of our clients (Kolcaba, 2003). It takes on a traditional view of healthcare in which the client’s holistic needs come first and healthcare is centered around the client. Seemingly, since the comfort theory focuses on attentiveness to comfort and the promotion of healing the body, mind, and spirit, it would be the most ideal theory to utilize when…

THE HISTORY OF PONCE DE LEON HALL Flagler College’s Ponce de Leon hall, located at 74 King St, St Augustine, Florida, was built in 1888 by architects John Carrére and Thomas Hastings, who were still new to the field at the time (Horn). The main building of the hall is now used mostly for student housing purposes, but the exterior architectural features and domed lobby space showcase impressive design features and elements of styles that we have covered this semester (Branch). It originally…

Abortion is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end pregnancy (Dictionary.com, 2016). A total of one million abortions were performed in the United States in 2011 (Guttmacher.org, 2016). An evangelist, by the name of Ray Comfort, set out on a mission to prove that abortion is America’s own holocaust. In Comfort’s film, “180”, he uses multiple cases of rhetorical context, witnesses to his respondents, and was successful in proving his arguments. The Holocaust is known…

Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Katy Hess Lewis-Clark State College Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Nursing theories have been an integral part of developing the standards and principles that are used in today’s nursing. Nursing theories are a foundation where policies and protocols are taken and applied in hospitals. Standards of care are made from various nursing theories. The basis of nursing has been taken from nurse theorists, through research and science, have developed these theories that…

Rationale For my concept analysis, I am interested in researching is patient advocacy and how nurses use the concept in critical situations, such as placing a patient in comfort measures only. For my research, I discover that Katharine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory will work best with my patient advocacy concept. The rationale behind the Comfort Theory is that it presents how the nurse cares for the needs of the patient; whether they are critically ill or not. In comparison to patient advocacy,…

In the paper, “Origin of Species”, author Ray Comfort presents opinions and non-supported assumptions to discredit the contributes of Charles Darwin to science literary. Charles Darwin’s contributions to science by his data, theories, and arguments for evolution by natural selection are exceptionally important in how scientist classify and explain evolution acting in nature. From variation in phenotype to the passing of favorable traits, to succeeding generations, to how life itself became,…

Last Korean "comfort woman" in China dies at the age of 95 By Li Yan On Jan.18, Mao Yinmei, the last Korean "comfort woman" in China, passed away at the age of 95, in the Sancha township, Xiaogan city, Hubei province. Mao was forced to serve as a "comfort woman" at the age of 18, in a Japanese military brothel in Wuchang. Mao was transferred from Korea by car to the north of China, then to Nanjing in 1945. In July 1945, Mao came to Wuhan and was locked in the comfort stations in Hankou and…