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Promoting Health by Promoting Comfort
Author(s) -
Gropper Elise I.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6198.1992.tb00905.x
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , action (physics) , constructive , nursing , health care , nursing interventions classification , comfort care , psychology , medicine , process management , computer science , business , palliative care , physics , process (computing) , quantum mechanics , economics , economic growth , operating system
While comfort is a concept frequently addressed in the nursing literature, few have adequately addressed this concept as a central patient objective. At present, our literature focuses more on comfort as a nursing action than on comfort as an individualized patient goal. Comfort may be more likely to be the driving force for patients obtaining healthcare services than health itself. This patient need, coupled with nursing interventions to assist them in identifying and implementing constructive ways of promoting their own comfort needs, will help to achieve an optimal state of health.