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A 7 page research paper that offers an overview of Imogene King’s conceptual framework and goal attainment theory. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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the late twentieth century (In Memory, 2008, p. 65). Kings Goal Attainment Theory is one of the principal nursing theories that follows the Systems Model of nursing. The following discussion,
first of all, offers an overview of Kings conceptual framework, which provides the worldview that informed and shaped her theoretical work, i.e., her Goal Attainment theory. However, prior to
discussing Kings philosophy, per se, as this theory is associated with the System Model of nursing, it is helpful in understanding Kings perspective to discuss what is encompassed by this
model of nursing. The Systems Model approach to nursing Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a detailed and useful metaphor that aids readers in visualizing the relationships between the ideas
that define nursing theory, that is, its defining meta-paradigms. These authors compare the various theories used in contemporary nursing to being analogous to a living tree. The roots of this
"tree" are the major concepts or paradigms used in modern nursing, which are person, environment, health and nursing (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The trunk of the tree is formed by
the theoretical perspective developed by Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, and the trees branches are the three major categories of contemporary nursing theory, which are the interactive,
systems, and developmental models (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The systems model of nursing perceives the concept of "person" as referring to a "multidimensional being who reacts continually to a world
of stressors" (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003, p. 23). The idea of "systems" can refer to organizations, communities, businesses or social structures, that is, the various social constructs within which people
live. "Open" systems are those that have "permeable boundaries" and encourage the free exchange of information while "closed systems have "rigid structures" in which exchanges of information are limited (Tourville
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