Katharine Hepburn Graceful‚ charming‚ hilarious‚ self-confident‚ hard-working‚ determined‚ outrageous Katharine Hepburn has been gathering adjectives for years‚ adding them to her image with carelessness and calculation. In an era of changing roles for women‚ Katharine Hepburn was able to use her influence on the American film to stand out as an early role model of the modern American woman. She had the essence of the successful adventuress: no mater the challenge‚ she survived in tact with
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How has Comfort theory been used in education‚ practice and research? The Comfort theory developed by Kolcaba has been applied to all a nursing environments. In the article Comfort Theory and it application to Pediatric Nursing applies comforting interventions to pediatrics during stressful procedure and operations. Comfort is one aspect of nursing that is integrated into the role of the nurse. To care for a patient is to give comfort to the patient and family. There are three types of comfort
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Katharine Kolcaba: Comfort Theory Sarah SchlenvogtPresentation College In my nursing practice with long term care residents‚ I frequently care for dying residents. Instead of simply providing these patients with medication to ease the pain‚ I wanted to learn about ways to enhance the comfort of the dying patient and assist their beloved family throughout the difficult process. This desire led me to undertake a concept analysis of comfort. Through my research at the end of life‚ I discovered Katharine
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REFLECTION ON KOLCABA COMFORT THEORY. Comfort theory was developed by Dr Kolcaba in 1984. She begins by analyzing the concept‚ which I think is a very important aspect to understanding the theory. The theory is based on the philosophy of holism. She views the person has a whole‚ consisting of a mental‚ emotional and spiritual life. According to Kolcaba comfort is the satisfaction of basic human needs for relief‚ ease‚ and transcendence arising from health care situations. After learning
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Katharine Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Kelly Ferreira Summer‚ 2004. In the early part of the 20th century‚ comfort was the central goal of nursing and medicine. Comfort was the nurse’s first consideration. A "good nurse" made patients comfortable. In the early 1900’s‚ textbooks emphasized the role of a health care provider in assuring emotional and physical comfort and in adjusting the patient’s environment. For example‚ in 1926‚ Harmer advocated that nursing care be
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in 1994 (Oliveira‚ 2013). Katharine Kolcaba first published her book on comfort care in 2003. This theory has been published and accepted at many health care authorities (Kolcaba & Dimarco‚ 2005). Kolcaba defined comfort as “the immediate state of being strengthen through having the human needs for relief‚ ease‚ and transcendence addressed in four contexts of experience ( physical‚ psychospiritual‚ sociocultural‚ and environmental)” (Kolcaba K. ‚ 2003‚ p. 251). Kolcaba and Dimarco explained relief
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gentlemen. I‚ Katharine Houghton‚ Hepburn am more than exhilarated to take you on a tour‚ through my life story. During my adolescence‚ I way a very determined‚ success-striving athlete. I played sports since I was able to walk. Those sports included swimming‚ wrestling‚ running‚ diving‚ golf and‚ my favorite.. TENNIS! While the years flew by‚ I decided I want something a little...unique‚ so I decided acting was the route I’d go! As an actress striving for success‚ I‚ young Katharine‚ landed my first
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Gabrielle Rabito Katharine Stinson was born September 18‚ 1917 in Fuquay-Varina‚ North Carolina. Growing up‚ Stinson was fascinated by airplanes‚ which isn’t a surprise considering she grew up in the same state that the Wright brothers flew the very first plane 14 years before she was born. Her first ride was when she was ten years old‚ with a former World War 1 pilot‚ Eddie Stinson. Ever since that first ride‚ Katharine knew that her goal in life was to fly a plane. She got a job at the Raleigh
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film that portrays life as an African American in the 1960s and different parts of society. It shows the differences between the lifestyles of whites and African Americans. By putting in a conflict like the relationship between the white woman (Katharine Houghton) and an African American man (Sidney Poitier) it made the film interesting and also it made you want to watch more to find out what eventually happens at the end of the film. In my paper‚ I will be giving reasons as to why I think the theme
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1) The recent death of actress Katharine Hepburn at age 96 has engendered any number of eulogies of this media favorite whose career ran six decades. She is being praised both as a strong moral person and as a vibrant indomitable rebel who was an eminent role model for women. To set the record straight for the unknowing or the naive‚ let me say that both of these renderings are completely false. 2) It is bad enough to see the secular media depicting Hepburn as a high-principled woman of morals
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