Goal Attainment (Imogene King)

• Imogene King was born on January 30, 1923 in West Point, Iowa and died on December 24, 2007.
• Imogene King received a diploma in nursing from St. John’s Hospital of Nursing in St. Louis, Missouri in 1945.
• Imogene King received a BS in Nursing Education from St. Louis University in 1948.
• Imogene King received a Master of Science in Nursing from St. Louis University in 1957.
• From 1947 to 1958, Imogene King was an instructor in medical-surgical nursing and assistant director at St. John’s Hospital School of Nursing.
• In 1961, Imogene King received a Doctor of Education from Columbia University.
• Imogene King was a founding member of the King International Nursing Group (KING) and one of the original Virginia Henderson Fellows.
• In 1997, Imogene King received a gold medallion from Governor Chiles for advancing the nursing profession in the State of Florida.
• In May 1998, Imogene King received an honorary doctorate from Loyola University.
• In 1999, Imogene King was inducted into the Teachers College, Columbia University of Hall of Fame.
• In 2004, Imogene King was inducted into the FNA Hall of Fame and the ANA Hall of Fame.
• Imogene King was inducted as a Living Legend in 2005.
• Imogene King’s Theory of Goal Attainment was introduced in the 1960s and describes an interpersonal relationship that allows a person to grow and develop in order to attain certain goals.
• The factors that affect the attainment of goals in Imogene King’s Theory of Goal Attainment are roles, stress, space, and time.
• Time is a duration between one event and another as uniquely experienced by each human being; it is the relation of one event to another event.
• A person, according to Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment, exists in an open system as a spiritual being and rational thinker who makes choices, selects alternative courses of action, and has the ability to record their history through their own language and symbols, unique, holistic and have different needs, wants, and goals.
• Environment, according to Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment, is the background for human interactions, both external to, and internal to, the individual.
• The three health needs of human beings according to Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment are: Need for information, Need for care for illness prevention, and Need for total care when a person doesn’t have the capacity to help themselves.
• Space is the physical area known as “territory” and by the behaviors of those occupying it.
• The metaparadigm of Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment is the Interacting System Framework.
• Health, according to Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment, is the ability of the person to adjust to the stressors caused by the internal and the external environment, maximum use of the potentials that a person can perform to achieve balance in one’s health.
• Nursing, according to Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment, is an act wherein the nurse interacts and communicates with the client; the nurse helps the client identify the existing condition, explore and agree on activities to promote health.
• The goal of the nurse in Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment is to help the client maintain health through health promotion and maintenance, restoration and caring for the sick and dying.
• Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment provides the theoretical knowledge base to implement the nursing process (ADPIE).
• The focus of Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment is creating a positive behaviour that can be adapted by both the nurse and the client to achieve goals established by the client with the help of the nurse.
• Roles in Imogene King’s Theory of Goal Attainment include reciprocity, where a person may be a giver at one time and a taker at another time.
• Stress in Imogene King’s Theory of Goal Attainment is defined as a 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.