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The Art of Comfort Care
Author(s) -
Kolcaba Katharine Y.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1995.tb00889.x
Subject(s) - comfort care , individualism , psychology , nursing care , nursing , medicine , palliative care , political science , law
Nursing art is defined and a template is presented for practicing one type of nursing art called comfort care. Propositions for comfort care are derived from a theory of comfort. Benefits are listed for integrating comfort care into practice. Testimony from a student who learned and applied comfort care provides support for its effectiveness as a learning tool. Comfort care is a holistic, individualistic, creative, and efficient model