TFN

• Nursing


  • A goal-seeking system where the performance of roles and responsibilities assists human beings to attain, maintain and restore health
  • A series of actions, reactions and interactions where the nurse and client exchange information and perceptions and set goals and determine the means to achieve the goals
  • Human beings and their actions are the focus of nursing
• Person


  • Open, social beings who are unique, rational, sentient and capable of making decisions
  • Have the ability to perceive, think, feel, choose, and set goals and select means to achieve goals
  • Have values that are linked to their culture and dictate their behavior and goals
  • Differ in their needs, desires, and goals
  • Have three fundamental needs: health information, care that seeks to prevent illness, and care when they are unable to help themselves
• Health


  • The dynamic life experiences of human being, which calls for the continuous adjustment to stressors in the internal and external environments causing the optimum use of one's resources to achieve maximum potential for daily living
  • A changing state where variations are constant and ongoing
  • Made up of genetic, subjective, relative, dynamic, environmental, functional, cultural, and perceptual characteristics
• Environment


  • The background for human interactions
  • Involves internal and external components where the internal environment transforms energy to enable humans to adjust to continuous external changes, and the external environment involves formal and informal organizations and is a source of stress and continuous changes
  • Understanding the ways in which humans interact with their environment to maintain health is necessary for nursing professionals
• Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment

  • The nurse and patient communicate information, set mutual goals, and then act to attain those goals
  • Factors that affect the attainment of goals are roles, stress, space, and time
  • If the goals and the means to achieve them are mutually agreed upon by nurses and patients, goals will be achieved
• Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment was first introduced in the 1960s
• Imogene King


  • Born on January 30, 1923 at West Point, Iowa
  • Earned her Diploma in Nursing from St. John's Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis, Missouri in 1945
  • Earned her Bachelor's Degree and Master of Science Degrees in St. Louis University in 1948 and 1957, respectively
  • Worked as instructor and assistant director at the St. John's Hospital School of Nursing from 1947 until 1958
  • Studied with Mildred Montag, at Teachers College, Columbia University, earning her Master's Degree in Education in 1961
• King's conceptual system includes 12 concepts: self, body image, role, perception, communication, interaction, transaction, growth and development, power, authority, organization, and decision-making
• The concepts are divided into three parts: personal system, interpersonal system, and social system