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