Imogene King

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Imogene King (born January 30, 1923 in West Point (Iowa) , † December 24, 2007 in St. Petersburg (Florida) ) was a Registered Nurse (nurse), university professor and a pioneer in the development of nursing theory . Your published in 1971, systems theory is part of the curriculum of nursing education and widespread especially in the English-speaking world based on care . King's interaction model is incorporated into several subsequent theories and has been carried over to many different care settings.

Career

Imogene Eva Martina King was born on January 30, 1923 in West Point, Iowa, the youngest of three children. King originally wanted to be a teacher, but her uncle, a doctor, offered her to train as a nurse. To escape small town life, she accepted and graduated from St. John's Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis, Missouri in 1945 . She then studied nursing education at St. Louis University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1948. From 1947 to 1958, she worked at St. John's Hospital School of Nursing as a nursing teacher and deputy director. In 1957 she received her Masters in Nursing from St. Louis University and did her PhD in Education at the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City .

King then became an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago , studying statistics, research, and computer science alongside her work. While at Loyola, she developed a master's program that was based on her theory and later set the framework for her care model. She published her first theoretical approach in 1964 in the Journal of Nursing Science . From 1966 to 1968, King worked for the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare before moving to Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio as director of the nursing school. There King published Toward a Theory of Nursing: General Concepts of Human Behavior in 1971 , which was named Book of the Year in 1973 by the American Journal of Nursing .

From 1971 to 1980, King returned to Loyola University as a professor and in 1980 moved to South Florida's College of Nursing in Tampa , Florida as a professor . There she stayed until she retired in 1990. There, A Theory for Nursing: Systems, Concepts, Process appeared in 1981 , in which King presented her complete theory. She died of a stroke on December 24, 2007 in St. Petersburg.

Throughout her career, King has been a member of various professional associations, including the American Nurses Association , Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society of Nurses, and the American Academy of Nursing, and helped found the King International Nursing Group (KING), which employs their Supported theory into practice.

Awards

  • Honorary Doctorate from Southern Illinois University
  • 1996 Jessie M. Scott Award from the American Nurses Association
  • 2004: American Nurses Association Hall of Fame
  • 2005 Living Legend from the American Academy of Nursing

Publications

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bio: Imogene King . King International Nursing Group. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ Obituary: Imogene M. King . In: Tampa Bay Times , December 28, 2007. Retrieved July 8, 2020. 
  3. ↑ Alligood, Martha Raile, and Ann Marriner-Tomey: Modelos y Teorías en Enfermería . Harcourt Brace, 1999, ISBN 978-84-8174-348-7
  4. ^ ANA Hall of Fame . American Nurses Association . Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  5. ^ Living Legends - Complete List . American Academy of Nursing . Archived from the original on April 12, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  6. ↑ Katie Love: A mid-range theory of Empowered Holistic Nursing Education: A pedagogy for a student-centered classroom . In: Creative Nursing . 20, No. 1, 2014, pp. 47-58. doi : 10.1891 / 1078-4535.20.1.47 . PMID 24730192 .
personal data
SURNAME King, Imogene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American nursing theorist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH West Point, Iowa
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2007
Place of death St. Petersburg (Florida)