Imogene King
(1971, 1981)
Goal Attainment Theory
Goal Attainment Theory
• Nursing process is defined as dynamic interpersonal process between nurse, client and health care system.
• Postulated the Goal Attainment Theory. She described nursing as a helping profession that assists individuals and groups in society to attain, maintain, and restore health. If is this not possible, nurses help individuals die with dignity.
• In addition, King viewed nursing as an interaction process between client and nurse whereby during perceiving, setting goals, and acting on them transactions occurred and goals are achieved.
Metaparadigm
Person
• Biopsychosocial being
Environment
• Internal and external environment continually interacts to assist in adjustments to change.
Health
• A dynamic life experience with continued goal attainment and adjustment to stressors.
Nursing
• Perceiving, thinking, relating, judging, and acting with an individual who comes to a nursing situations
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