[Experiences and significance of comfort for the surgical patient. Part III]

This third article is consecrated to the testimony's analysis of eleven patients having lived an experience of comfort in post-operative phase. The hermeneutic process used is the one proposed by Patricia Benner. However, a innovating aspect is presented in this research. Indeed, the approach centred on the dyad "patient-nurse" allows three types of successive and complementary analyses: (a) the one is directed on experience of operated people, (b) the second is directed on the nurse's living experience and (c) the last is consecrated simultaneously to actors of each dyad. In the frame of the hermeneutic research, this methodological approach is undeniably the strongest point developed by the author, because, it allows an analysis which goes beyond the nursing speech whom the patient "who suffers" is more often the missing subject. Two clinical recommendations end this article.