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1. Scientific Assumptions: Systems of matter and energy progress to higher levels of complex self-organization.
2. Consciousness and meaning are constructive of person and environment integration.
3. Awareness of self and environment is rooted in thinking and feeling.
4. Humans, by their decisions, are accountable for the integration of creative processes.
5. Thinking and feeling mediate human action.
6. System relationships include acceptance, protection, and fostering of interdependence.
7. Persons and the earth have common patterns and integral relationships.
8. Persons and environment transformations are created in human consciousness.
9. Integration of human and environmental meanings results in adaptation.
Philosophical Assumptions:
1. Persons have mutual relationships with the world and God.
2. Human meaning is rooted in the omega point convergence of the universe.
3. God is intimately revealed in the diversity of creation and is the common destiny of creation.
4. Persons use human creative abilities of awareness, enlightenment, and faith.
5. Persons are accountable for the processes of deriving, sustaining, and transforming the universe.

Biography and Credentials of Imogene Martina King: 
Born: January 30, 1923 
Died: December 24, 2007 
Imogene King was born on January 30, 1923 in West Point, Iowa. Despite initially aspiring to become a teacher, her uncle, who was the town surgeon, offered to fund her nursing school tuition. She accepted the offer as a means to escape small-town life. Imogene King excelled in her nursing studies and received a nursing diploma from St. John's Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis, Missouri in 1945. She continued her education and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education from St. Louis University in 1948 and a Master of Science in Nursing in 1957, also from St. Louis University. In 1961, she earned her EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. In 1980, King was appointed a professor at the University of South Florida College of Nursing in Tampa. Throughout her career, she contributed to community service and health care organizations, including Tampa General Hospital. In recognition of her contributions, she received a gold medallion from Governor Chiles in 1997 and an honorary doctorate from Loyola University in May 1998. She was inducted into the Teachers College, Columbia University, Hall of Fame in 1999, the FNA Hall of Fame, and the ANA Hall of Fame in 2004, and recognized as a Living Legend in 2005.

Person: Human systems have thinking and feeling capacities rooted in consciousness and meaning. They adjust effectively to changes in the environment and affect the environment. Human systems can be individuals or groups such as families, organizations, and the global community. Environment: Conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the development and behavior of persons or groups. Includes focal, contextual, and residual stimuli. Health: Health is the ability to cope with death, disease, unhappiness, and stress in a competent way. It results from the continuous adaptation of humans to stimuli. Nursing: The goal of nursing is the promotion of adaptation for individuals and groups in each of the four adaptive modes. Contributes to health, quality of life, and dying with dignity. Adaptation: The process and outcome whereby thinking and feeling persons use conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration. Adaptive Modes: Physiological/Physical Mode, Self-Concept/Group Identity Mode, Role Function Mode, Interdependence Mode. Levels of Adaptation: Integrated Process, Compensatory Process, Compromised Process.

- Human being: Viewed as an open system interacting with internal and external environmental stressors, striving for dynamic system stability or managing illness.
- Environment: Comprises internal, external, and created factors influencing the client system; stressors categorized as intrapersonal, interpersonal, or extrapersonal may penetrate the lines of defense.
- Health: Defined as the degree of system stability representing a continuum from wellness to illness; optimal wellness is achieved when system needs are met.
- Nursing: Primarily concerned with defining appropriate actions in stress-related situations and aiming to help the system adapt, focusing on energy conservation.
- Open System: Characterized by continuous input, process, output, and feedback with organized complexity and interaction between elements.
- Basic Structure and Energy Resources: The central core of survival factors common to the species, client variables, flexible line of defense, normal line of defense, and lines of resistance.

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