Application of Katharine Kolkaba Comfort theory to nursing care of patient

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  • Afsha Awal khan
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aring is in practice since existence but caring as profession named Nursing was scientifically Coined by the founder of modern nursing who in her writings “what it is and what it is not”declared the boundaries along with its Constitutional elements. Those elements with appropriate association not only revealed the nature of caring dogma it also shows that it is doing something base on thinking something or in simple words this is practice rely on theory. According to McCrae, (2011) For the sake of assuming valuable status ofprofession in society nursing struggle to legitimate its position by generation and application of theory. Nursing literature is rich regarding theory practice association. although constant body of argument, counter argument and lack of agreed conclusion regarding nursing theory creates a bit confusion among nurses but ideally nursing theory should set the code of every day practice of nurses(Giltinane, 2013) as lack of a valued unique contribution nurses make to health care based on a specialized body of knowledge will portrayed nursing role as subordinate to doctor (Mccrae, 2011) Eminent nurses’ theorist, scientist, Researchers, Clinicians, Educators and intellectual intelligentsia aid evidence to different perspectives of theory practice link. Some unanimous convincing narratives argue that the relationship is reciprocal and according to (Mckenna, 2005) Nursing theory takes its origin from practice, than reverse to practice for testing and at the end become set to guide the practice.

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تاریخ انتشار 2017