Introduction
As per Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort, the most fundamental concepts are healthcare needs and intervening variables. In general, these concepts stand for providing the necessary items in a health care setting for the patient and keeping check of any factors that may alter the patient’s comfortability, respectively.
Discussion
The demand for comfort from distressing healthcare settings is a health need. Physiological, psycho-spiritual, interpersonal, and situational demands can materialize. Kolcaba uses these same categories for summative assessment (Puchi et al., 2018). According to the theorist, close observation reveals these requirements and anything that impacts the result is an intervening variable (Puchi et al., 2018). Previous encounters, age, temperament, psychological response, support network, prognosis, and finances are a few potential factors.
Kolcaba being a theorist, indeed had moved milestones in terms of comforting patients. According to Katherine Kolcaba, a nurse must recognize comfort requirements that the patient’s other support structures have not yet detected (Puchi et al., 2018). The nurse is then in charge of creating remedies to meet the patient’s unmet requirements. The other adjacent concept is on the earlier detailed intervening variable. The intervening variables are explained by the requirement for the nurse to consider the factors that might influence the suggested intervention for the patient. For the individual to be gotten to a satisfactory feeling of convenience and for that level to be maintained for a long time, all proposals must be practical.
Conclusion
The standard of care cannot be measured with scales or analyzed with a machine to determine its components. As a hemodialysis nurse, learning about the patients’ needs enables me to assess individuals and prioritize their issues and inclinations to provide better services. It helped support patients throughout dialysis, helping them adapt to hemodialysis and when they got dialysis or kidney replacements (Malleshappa, 2018). Amongst the patients, those who were quick to recover were those in a comfortable state, and as nurses, we try our best to keep the patients as comfortable as possible.
References
Malleshappa, P. (2018). Coping strategies and quality of life in patients receiving chronic hemodialysis. Turkish Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. Web.
Puchi, C., Paravic-Klijn, T., & Salazar, A. (2018). The comfort theory as a theoretical framework applied to a clinical case of hospital at home. Holistic Nursing Practice, 32(5), 228–239. Web.