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    Katharine Kolcaba

    Dr. Katharine Kolcaba is a nursing theorist who developed the Comfort Theory in the 1990s. It is a mid-range nursing theory that she is still researching and refining today.


    Personal Life

    Dr. Kolcaba was born as Katharine Arnold on December 28, 1944, in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Mayfield High School, Mayfield Heights, Ohio, in 1962, she entered St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated with a diploma in nursing in 1965.

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    • After a long career, Dr. Kolcaba retired from full-time teaching in 2007 but is still a part-time professor at the University of Akron, Ohio, and works with researchers and students on the website that she has created.

    Her volunteer activities include Elderlife, an outreach network for older people in her area. She also developed and is active in a parish nursing service that serves elders in the community. The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma