What is borrowed and what is unique about Comfort Theory?
I borrowed the ideas about Relief, Ease, and Transcendence as stated above. Later, I “borrowed” the contexts of experience from the literature review about holism. I put these ideas together in a unique way. Later, I borrowed the framework for the First and Second parts of Comfort Theory from Henry Murray (see comfort theory article). But I hung nursing concepts on his abstract framework in a unique way. The idea of institutional outcomes was unique and was added through a process Tomen and Alligood call retroduction.
