Using the assigned readings, information from the literature, and the following guest editorial (Lin, C. (2010).
Comfort: A value forgotten in nursing. Cancer Nursing, 33(6), 409-410.) compose a response to the following: The author suggests that over the last few decades comfort care has been more closely associated with end of life.
Is this so or should comfort care be a "substantive need in all aspects of life" as the author proposes?
Consider physical, psycho/social/spiritual, and environmental areas of discomfort.
Are all comforts needs the same? How does the RN develop a plan to meet the comfort needs of all patients? Is it sensible to consider "comfort" as a core of nursing care to be carried out by the RN?
Can care of discomfort be delegated? Should it be? In your responses to your peers' posts provide constructive and insightful comments that go beyond that of agree or disagree.