IMOGENE KING Flashcards
IMOGENE KING’S THEORY
CONCEPTUAL SYSTSEM AND THEORY OF GOAL ATTAINMENT AND TRANSACTIONAL PROCESS
Based on overall assumption that the focus of nursing is human beings interacting with their environment leading to a state of health for individuals, which is ability to function in social roles
GOAL ATTAINMENT THEORY
Graduated from St John’s Hospital School of Nursing
IMOGENE KING
St Louis University (BSN)
(1948)
St Louis University
MSN
1957
Teacher’s College- Doctor of Education
(1961)
Staff nursing Educational Research and administrative roles Research consultant Professor – University of South Florida College of Nursing
IMOGENE KING
• An observable found in the health care systems in society
Nursing
• Goal is to help individuals maintain their health so they can function in their roles
Nursing
• Interpersonal process of action, reaction, interaction and transaction
Nursing
• The process of human transactions with environment
Perception
• Organizing, interpreting and transforming information from sensory data and memory
Perception
• A process of perception and communication between person and environment and between person and person represented by verbal and non verbal behaviors that are global directed
Interaction
• A process of interactions in which human beings communicate with the environment to achieve goals that are valued; transactions are goal-directed human behaviors
Transaction
• Individuals are spiritual beings
Person
• Individuals have the capacity to think, know, make choices and select alternative course of action
Person
• Have the ability to record their history and preserve their culture
Person
• Individuals are open system in transaction with the environment
Person
• Individuals are unique and holistic, are of intrinsic worth and capable of rational thinking and decision making in most situations
Person
• Individuals differ in their needs, wants and goals
Person
Consists of variables that are unique to each person (nurse, patient, etc.) it includes perception, self growth and development, body-image, space, learning and time
Personal
Includes variables that exists when an interaction between persons occur (e.g. nurse-patient, patient-relative, etc.) concepts related to interpersonal systems are interaction, communication, transactions, role and stress
Interpersonal
Occurs when socially acceptable roles and boundaries are accepted and followed as a mechanism to regulate interactions includes the organization, authority, power, status and decision making
Social
• Implies continuous adjustment to stress in the internal and external environment through optimum use of one’s resources to achieve maximum potential for daily living
Health
• Adjustment to life and health are influenced by an individual’s interaction with environment
Environment
• Nurse and patient are purposeful interacting systems
PROPOSITIONS
• Nurse and client perceptions, judgements, and actions if congruent, leads to goal directed transactions
PROPOSITIONS
• if perceptual accuracy is present in nurse-client interactions, transactions will occur
PROPOSITIONS
• if nurse and client makes transactions, goals will be attained
PROPOSITIONS
• if goals are attained, satisfactions will occur
PROPOSITIONS
• if goals are attained, effective nursing care will occur
PROPOSITIONS
• if transactions are made in nurse client interactions, growth and development will be enhanced
PROPOSITIONS
• if role expectations and role performance as perceived by nurse and client are congruent, transactions will occur
PROPOSITIONS
• if nurses with special knowledge and skills communicate appropriate information to clients, mutual goal setting and goal attainment will occur
PROPOSITIONS
