Imogene King As A Medical-Surgical Nurse

e King Is my Queen Imogene Martina King was born on January 30, 1923 in West Point, Iowa. In her early high school years, she originally had goals to become a teacher. Her uncle, who was a surgeon, offered to pay for her tuition to nursing school. She accepted his offer and began her nursing journey. She received her diploma in 1945 she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education from St. Louis University in 1948 and then received her Master of Science in Nursing from St. Louis University in 1957. She continued her education by earning her doctorate from Teacher’s college at Columbia University. King began her career working as a Medical-Surgical nurse. Throughout the years, she continued her career by becoming the director and coordinator

King states, “Nursing is a process of action, reaction and interaction by which nurse and client share information about their perception in a nursing situation.” By setting mutual goals, nurses and their patients will have better outcomes. King captivates the concept of patient advocacy by enforcing ideas supporting the importance of supporting the patient’s choices. Health plays an important role in this theory. However, health is not synonymous with being disease-free. King (1971) describes health to be “the way individuals deal with the stress of growth and development while functioning within the cultural pattern in which they were born and to which they attempt to conform” (p. 4). To sum up, King’s theory of goal attainment is intelligible and can be easily applied to any nursing and patient situation regardless of diseases or ailments a patient might have. King created a conceptual framework divided into personal, interpersonal, and social systems. Together, these three areas work collectively to create an organized system that can be applied

Human acts are known as actions and they can be further divided into two sections. Mental action is recognizing the conditions that are present. Physical action is initiating activities related to the condition or situation. When humans utilize these actions appropriately, transactions are made, and progress is made on achieving goals. According to King (1981), when two people interact with one another, verbally and nonverbally, they bring their own “personal knowledge, needs, goals, expectations, perceptions, and past experiences that influence the interactions” (p. 67). The information being sent is called the message. The person then receives the message, interprets it, and encodes another message to be sent back to the receiver. Effective communication is the foundation for transactions. Transactions have the main purpose of expressing values to achieve goals in the environment. It’s important to note that not all transactions are successful which is not necessarily a negative thing. The importance of communication and transactions is that the parties involved value and have interest in the information that is being attempted to be translated. The concept of stress is another important factor in the interpersonal system. Stress has an incredible impact specific to each patient’s cognitive processing. Stressors can be divided into six categories: physical, environmental,