This document provides an overview of Imogene King's nursing theory, including her background and education. It describes the key concepts and systems in her conceptual framework, including personal, interpersonal, and social systems. The personal system focuses on perception, self, growth/development, body image, space, and time. The interpersonal system involves interaction, communication, transaction, roles, and stress. The social system consists of organization, authority, power, status, and decision-making. The document applies King's theory to the case of a postoperative patient, outlining the nurse and patient's perceptions, judgments, actions, reactions, and their interaction/transaction.