CHAPTER 10 Conceptual System and Middle-Range Theory of Goal-Attainment by Imogene King

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was born on

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January 30, 1923 in West Point, Iowa.

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died on

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December 24, 2007 at the age of 84

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• a more comprehensive interacting system consists of groups that make up society.

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Social system

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• individuals are personal systems
  - each individual is an open, total, unique system in constant interaction with the environment.

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Personal Systems

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• a process of organizing, interpreting, and transforming information from sense data and memory.

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Perception

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• is a composite of thoughts and feelings which constitute a person’s awareness of his/her individual existence, his/her conception of who and what he/she is

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Self

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• the process that takes place in an individual’s life that help the individual move from potential capacity for achievement to self-actualization.

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Growth and development

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• an individual’s perceptions of his/her own body, others’ reaction to his/her appearance which results from others/ reactions to self.

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Body image

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• a process of nursing perception, conceptualization, and critical thinking involving multiple experiences in which changes in concepts, skills, symbols, habits, and values can be evaluated in observable behaviors inferred from behavioral manifestation.

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Learning

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• duration between the occurrence of one event and occurrence of another event.

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Time

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• existing in all directions and is the same everywhere

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Personal space

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• the constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and internal demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding resources.

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Coping

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• two or more individuals in interaction form interpersonal systems.

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Interpersonal systems

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• information processing, a change of information from one state to another

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Communication

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• acts of two or more persons in the mutual presence

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Interaction

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• set of behaviors expected when occupying a position in a social system

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Role

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• dynamic state whereby a human being interacts with the environment to maintain balance for growth, development, and performance which involves an exchange of energy and information between the person and the environment for regulation and control of stressors.

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Stress

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• events that produces stress

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Stressors

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• observable behaviors of human beings interacting with their environment.

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Transaction

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• are composed of large groups with common interests or goals

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Social system

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• a system whose continuous activities are conducted to achieve goals

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Organization

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• transactional process characterized by active, reciprocal relations in defining, validating, and accepting the directions of individuals within an organization.

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Authority

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the position of an individual in a group or a group in relation to other groups in an organization.

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Status -

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• the capacity or ability of a group to achieve goals

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Power

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• dynamic and systematic process by which a goal-directed choice of perceived alternative is made, and acted upon, by individuals or groups to answer a question and attain a goal.

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Decision making

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Four Concepts that Center on Human Beings

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1. Health
2. Interpersonal relationships
3. Perceptions
4. Social systems