Katharine Kolcaba

Katharine Kolcaba's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Nursing

#12

World Rank

#17

Historical Rank

#10

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Katharine Kolcaba is an American nursing theorist and nursing professor. Dr. Kolcaba is responsible for the Theory of Comfort, a broad-scope mid-range nursing theory commonly implemented throughout the nursing field up to the institutional level.

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Katharine Kolcaba's Published Works

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Published Papers

A theory of holistic comfort for nursing. (1994) (282)
An analysis of the concept of comfort. (1991) (195)
Holistic comfort: operationalizing the construct as a nurse-sensitive outcome. (1992) (187)
A taxonomic structure for the concept comfort. (1991) (153)
Evolution of the mid range theory of comfort for outcomes research. (2001) (146)
Comfort Theory and its application to pediatric nursing. (2005) (139)
Comfort Theory: A Unifying Framework to Enhance the Practice Environment (2006) (132)
The effects of guided imagery on comfort of women with early stage breast cancer undergoing radiation therapy. (1999) (117)
Effects of comfort warming on preoperative patients. (2006) (108)
The effects of guided imagery on comfort, depression, anxiety, and stress of psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders. (2009) (107)
Effects of hand massage on comfort of nursing home residents. (2006) (93)
Practical application of comfort theory in the perianesthesia setting. (2004) (86)
Comfort care: a framework for perianesthesia nursing. (2002) (80)
Measuring comfort in caregivers and patients during late end-of-life care (2001) (69)
The art of comfort care. (1995) (66)
Efficacy of Hand Massage for Enhancing the Comfort of Hospice Patients (2004) (58)
Empirical Evidence for the Nature of Holistic Comfort (2000) (50)
A Holistic perspective on comfort care as an advance directive (1996) (47)
Comparison of a Healing Touch, Coaching, and a Combined Intervention on Comfort and Stress in Younger College Students (2007) (26)
Acute care for elders (ACE): a holistic model for geriatric orthopaedic nursing care. (2000) (25)
The Addition of Coaching to Cognitive Strategies: Interventions for Persons with Compromised Urinary Bladder Syndrome (2003) (24)
Comfort as Process and Product, Merged in Holistic-Nursing Art (1995) (23)
The Effect of a Nursing Labor Management Partnership on Nurse Turnover and Satisfaction (2010) (22)
Comfort and hope in the preanesthesia stage in patients undergoing surgery. (2014) (20)
Cancer patients caregivers comfort. (2014) (19)
Development of the Healing Touch Comfort Questionnaire (2006) (17)
Health promotion in long-term care facilities (1994) (16)
The Effects of Guided Imagery on Comfort in Palliative Care (2018) (16)
Development and psychometric evaluation of the Psychiatric In-patients Comfort Scale (PICS). (2007) (15)
Gerontological nursing. The concept of comfort in an environmental framework. (1992) (15)
Validation of the Holistic Comfort Questionnaire- caregiver in Portuguese-Brazil in a cohort of informal caregivers of palliative care cancer patients (2015) (12)
Comfort Theory: Unraveling the Complexities of Veterans' Health Care Needs (2015) (10)
Cultural adaptation and validation of the Portuguese End of Life Spiritual Comfort Questionnaire in Palliative Care patients. (2016) (10)
An Evaluation of Patient Comfort During Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization (2017) (9)
Development of a healthy bladder education program for older adults. (2004) (9)
Comfort and Fluid Retention in Adult Patients Receiving Hemodialysis. (2018) (8)
Spreading comfort around the world. (1997) (5)
The effects of guided imagery on comfort of women with early breast cancer choosing conservative therapy (1996) (5)
Health promotion in long-term care facilities. To what extent are health screening and health promotion being practiced in LTC facilities? (1994) (4)
Geropharmacology treatment: behavioral problems extend nursing responsibility. (1989) (4)
The Addition of Coaching to Cognitive Strategies (2002) (3)
Fiduciary Decision-Making Using Comfort Care (2003) (2)
To what extent are health screening and health promotion being practiced in LTC facilities? Health Promotion in (1994) (0)
Behavioral Problems Geropharmacology Treatment Extend Nursing Responsibility (1989) (0)
Reflections [Complete issue : Second Quarter 1997, Vol. 23, 2] (1997) (0)
Katherine Kolcaba Responds to Virginia Aita: Patient Comfort (1996) (0)
A theory of holistic comfort for nursing (DISS) (1994) (0)
Measuring Childbirth Comfort 1 Running head: CCQ MEASUREMENT Quantification of Childbirth Comfort: Instrumentation (2019) (0)
Cognitive strategies to enhance comfort for persons with urinary incontinence and to decrease episodes of urinary incontinence (1997) (0)
Efficacy of Hand Massage for Enhancing Comfort and Related Outcomes for Patients near End of Life (2011) (0)
Reaching optimum function is realistic goal for elderly. (1987) (0)
Two interventions to relieve stress in college students. (2007) (0)
Health Maintenance as Responsibility for Self (1994) (0)
Effects of Comfort Warniing on Preoperative Patients (2006) (0)
Holistic care. Is it feasible in today's health care environment? Counterpoint. (2000) (0)
General Comfort Questionnaire (2020) (0)
Perpetuating oppression? (1996) (0)
Comfort Care: The Art of Palliative Nursing (2001) (0)

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