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The art of comfort care
1University of Akron, College of Nursing, OH 44325, USA.
Image--The Journal of Nursing Scholarship
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
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.