IMOGENE KING
Ed.D. RN

Dr. King began her academic career at St. Louis University, spent several years at Loyola University in Chicago, and then went to the University of South Florida, where she is now professor emeritus.

Imogene King's model is a model of three interacting systems: personal, interpersonal, and social. In her theory of goal attainment, she states that client goals are met through the transaction between nurse and client. The model can be applied to all settings. Her ideas were influenced by systems theory (von Bertalanffy) and interaction theory. Her model is based on systems theory but has also been classified as an interaction model.

King describes her model as a conceptual system and the goal of nursing as bringing a person closer to a healthy state (King, 1997, 2001). The conceptual system has three interacting systems, the personal, the interpersonal, and the social. The nurse and the person interact toward a goal. The end-point of this......

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