12: Comfort












































































DOMAIN 12. COMFORT
Sense of mental, physical, or social well-being or ease
Class 1. Physical comfort
Sense of well-being or ease and/or freedom from pain
Code Diagnosis Page
00214 Impaired comfort 437
00183 Readiness for enhanced comfort 438
00134 Nausea 439
00132 Acute pain 440
00133 Chronic pain 442
00256 Labor pain 444
00255 Chronic pain syndrome 445
Class 2. Environmental comfort
Sense of well-being or ease in/with one’s environment
Code Diagnosis Page
00214 Impaired comfort 437
00183 Readiness for enhanced comfort 438
3. Social comfort
Sense of well-being or ease with one’s social situation
Code Diagnosis Page
00214 Impaired comfort 437
00183 Readiness for enhanced comfort 438
00054 Risk for loneliness 446
00053 Social isolation 447

Domain 12. Comfort     Class 1. Physical Comfort


                    Class 2. Environmental Comfort


                    Class 3. Social Comfort


00214


Impaired comfort


(2008, 2010; LOE 2.1)


Defining Characteristics



  • Alteration in sleep pattern
  • Anxiety
  • Crying
  • Discontent with situation
  • Distressing symptoms
  • Fear
  • Feeling cold
  • Feeling hot
  • Feeling of discomfort
  • Feeling of hunger
  • Inability to relax
  • Irritability
  • Itching
  • Moaning
  • Restlessness
  • Sighing
  • Uneasy in situation

Related Factors



  • Illness-related symptoms
  • Insufficient environmental control
  • Insufficient privacy
  • Insufficient resources (e.g., financial, social, knowledge)
  • Insufficient situational control
  • Noxious environmental stimuli
  • Treatment regimen

Original literature support available at www.nanda.org


Domain 12. Comfort     Class 1. Physical Comfort


                   Class 2. Environmental Comfort


                   Class 3. Social Comfort


00183


Readiness for enhanced comfort


(2006, 2013; LOE 2.1)


Defining Characteristics



  • Expresses desire to enhance comfort
  • Expresses desire to enhance feeling of contentment
  • Expresses desire to enhance relaxation
  • Expresses desire to enhance resolution of complaints

Original literature support available at www.nanda.org


Domain 12. Comfort     Class 1. Physical Comfort


00134


Nausea


(1998, 2002, 2010; LOE 2.1)


Defining Characteristics



  • Aversion toward food
  • Gagging sensation
  • Increase in salivation
  • Increase in swallowing
  • Nausea
  • Sour taste

Related Factors


Biophysical



  • Biochemical dysfunction (e.g., uremia, diabetic ketoacidosis)
  • Esophageal disease
  • Exposure to toxin
  • Gastric distention
  • Gastrointestinal irritation
  • Increase in intracranial pressure (ICP)
  • Intra-abdominal tumors
  • Labyrinthitis
  • Liver capsule stretch
  • Localized tumor (e.g., acoustic neuroma, brain tumor, bone metastasis)
  • Menière’s disease
  • Meningitis
  • Motion sickness
  • Pancreatic disease
  • Pregnancy
  • Splenic capsule stretch
  • Treatment regimen

Situational



  • Anxiety
  • Fear
  • Noxious environmental stimuli
  • Noxious taste
  • Psychological disorder
  • Unpleasant visual stimuli

Original literature support available at www.nanda.org


Domain 12. Comfort     Class 1. Physical Comfort


00132


Acute pain


(1996, 2013; LOE 2.2)

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