rocess involved in King's theory of nursing includes (1) recognition of presented conditions, (2) making goal-related decisions, and motivating the patient to exert control over events to achieve goals. The transactions "basic to goal attainment . . . include social exchange, bargaining and negotiating, and sharing a frame of reference" (p. 192).
Roy's theory of nursing is commonly known as the adaptation model (Chinn, Jacobs, & Huether, p. 193). Within the adaptation model, the person is conceived as an adaptive system. "System inputs include (1) three classes of stimuli (focal, contextual, or residual) that arise from within a person and the external environment and (2) adaptation level. Adaptation level is fluid, is comprised
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