Name: Alyssa Mae Azarcon

Section: BSN 1H
Subject: Theoretical Foundation of Nursing

IMOGEBE KING’S GOAL ATTAINMENT THEORY

Biography:
born in 1923.
Earned a diploma in nursing from St. John’s Hospital of Nursing in St Louis
in 1945.
Worked as office nurse, staff nurse, school nurse, and private duty nurse to support
herself while studying for a baccalaureate degree.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing from St. Louis University in 1948
Master of Science in Nursing from St. Louis University in 1957
Doctorate from Teacher’s college, Columbia University, New York in 1961.
Major concept:
King developed a general systems framework and a theory of goal attainment where
the framework refers to the three interacting systems - individual or personal, group or
interpersonal, and society or social, while the theory of goal attainment pertains to the
importance of interaction, perception, communication, transaction, self, role, stress,
growth and development, time, and personal space.

Definition:

Imogene King influenced nursing immensely.

A great nurse is one that treats their patient with respect and dignity. They not only
share medical knowledge, but they also teach their patients about his or her medical
conditions. Great nurses are taught to help patients set reasonable goals and determine
how those goals will be met. Imogene King's theory was about patient and nurses
working together to mutually set goals that were achievable by the patient to help
them attain and maintain health. The key to her cherry is that goals have to be set
 mutually the patient had to be involved in his or her care and that the Nurse patient
relationships was crucial to have. King was able to do this by the three integrated
working systems. (Persons interpersonal relationships and social contexts).

Metaparadigm:

Person:

King described a person Assisting 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.

King's jury of gold attainment identified 3 basic health needs of man/person:

1. The need for the help information that is unable at that time when it is needed
and can be used.
2. The need for care that seek to prevent illness.
3. The need for care when human beings are unable to help themselves.

Environment:

King defined environment as the process of balance involving internal and external
interactions inside the social system.

Reactions from the interaction between the internal and external environment can be
biological, physiological, physical, social or spiritual.

It has a direct exchange of information between the internal and external.

Health:

It is a dynamic stake in the life cycle illness interferences with that process.

Health 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.

Nursing:
Nursing is a process of action reaction and interaction whereby nurse and clients share
information about their perceptions in the nursing situation.

The nurse and client shares specific goals, problems, concern and explore means to
achieve a goal.